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Iraq continues to insist on firm U.S. troop pullout date
By: WP on: 07.11.2008 [06:36 ] (67 reads)
Iraq continues to insist on firm U.S. troop pullout date
Khalid Mohammed / Associated Press
The Washington Post
November 7, 2008
Reporting from Baghdad - Two days after Barack Obama's election as 
president, Iraqi officials continued to insist on a withdrawal date for U.S. 
troops regardless of conditions on the ground, and maintained their demand 
that American forces be subject to Iraqi legal jurisdiction in some 
instances.
In an interview Thursday, government spokesman Ali Dabbagh said an effort to 
reach a so-called status of forces agreement that would sanction the U.S. 
military presence in Iraq beyond 2008 would collapse if no deal is reached 
by month's end. But a U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said U.S. officials had 
presented Iraq's government with a "final text."
American soldiers should be prosecuted in the Iraqi court system if they 
commit grave offenses outside their bases, unless they are on a joint 
mission with Iraqi troops, Dabbagh said. American combat troops should cease 
operating unilaterally by June, he said, and the status of forces agreement 
should specify that the vast majority of U.S. troops leave Iraq by the end 
of 2011.
"Iraqis would like to know and see a fixed date," he said. "U.S. troops 
should be secluded to known camps. The Americans would be called whenever 
there is a need. Their movement would be limited."
In August, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki demanded a firm withdrawal date. 
Obama has called for combat troops to be out within 16 months, but he has 
reserved some flexibility in his position.
The Bush administration has resisted firm withdrawal timelines and said any 
pullout should be subject to security conditions at the time.
U.S. officials on Thursday responded in writing to proposed amendments Iraqi 
Cabinet members made to a draft of the agreement after many Iraqi lawmakers 
expressed misgivings about the language on withdrawal dates and the types of 
instances under which American soldiers would be subject to Iraqi law.
U.S. officials are unlikely to cede ground on the issue of legal 
jurisdiction because Pentagon officials feel strongly that misconduct by 
soldiers ought to be handled by military prosecutors, and Iraq's judicial 
system is widely perceived to be rudimentary and at times arbitrary.
U.S. and Iraqi officials did not describe the content of the response 
American negotiators submitted Thursday.
"We have gotten back to them with a final text," said Susan Ziadeh, a 
spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
"We've responded positively in order to move the process forward in a way 
that respects the sovereignty of both sides."
 

 Iraq continues to insist on firm U.S. troop pullout date
mi sa che gli USA faranno qualche altro attentato per ammorbidire la
posizione degli iracheni e convincerli della necessità della presenza USA
in Iraq.
Sergio
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