gibbs also said that it expected to visit with jordanian energy minister khatami ol - sadr , but poor weather in afghanistan shows that obama will possibly listen to the prime ministerial and iraqi president jalal talibani by telegram . american troop are planning to leave iraq by october 2010 , with the new ny times reporting that troop levels will continue to be normal until iraq ' s federal elections in october . obama told a group of university students in turkey that despite his adamant opposition to the war in 2003 , he understood that the troop withdrawal would be handled closely .
Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.