Iraq exige timeline claro del `' para el retiro de los E.E.U.U.
El Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Iraq insistió domingo que cualquier reparto de la seguridad con los Estados Unidos debe contener “un timeline muy claro” para la salida de los E.E.U.U. tropas. Un bombardero del suicidio pulsó el norte de Bagdad, matando por lo menos a cinco personas incluyendo un soldado americano.
El Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores Hoshyar Zebari dijo a reporteros que los negociadores americanos e iraquíes estuvieran “muy cercanos” a alcanzar un acuerdo de seguridad a largo plazo que fijará las reglas para los E.E.U.U. tropas en Iraq después del U.N. el mandato expira al final del año.
Zebari dijo que los iraquíes insistían que el acuerdo incluye “un timeline muy claro” para el retiro de los E.E.U.U. - las fuerzas conducidas, pero él rechazaron hablar de fechas específicas.
“Lo tenemos dicho que esto es un proceso condición-conducido,” agregamos, sugiriendo que el horario de la salida podría ser modificado si la situación de la seguridad cambió.
Pero Zebari hizo claramente que los iraquíes no aceptarían un reparto que carece un timeline para el extremo de los E.E.U.U. presencia militar.
“No, ningún definitivamente allí tiene que ser un timeline muy claro,” Zebari contestado cuando está preguntado si los iraquíes aceptarían un acuerdo que no mencionó fechas.
Las diferencias sobre un horario del retiro tienen convertido de las ediciones más discutibles restantes en las negociaciones, que comenzaron temprano este año. LOS E.E.U.U. y los negociadores iraquíes faltaron una fecha de la blanco del 31 de julio para terminar el reparto, que se debe aprobar por el parlamento de Iraq.
Presidente Bush ha rechazado firmemente aceptar cualquier horario para traer los E.E.U.U. tropas caseras. El mes pasado, sin embargo, Bush y el al-Maliki de Nouri del primer ministro acordaron fijar un “horizonte general del tiempo” para un E.E.U.U. salida.
La semana pasada, dos funcionarios iraquíes mayores dijeron a prensa asociada que los negociadores americanos tuvieran acuerdo a un fórmula cuáles quitarían los E.E.U.U. las fuerzas de ciudades iraquíes antes del 30 de junio de 2009 con todo el combate marchan del país antes del octubre de 2010.
Las tropas americanas pasadas de la ayuda dejarían cerca de tres años más tarde, los iraquíes dichos.
Pero los E.E.U.U. los funcionarios insisten que no hay acuerdo fechas específicas. Los funcionarios americanos e iraquíes hablaron en la condición del anonimato porque las negociaciones están en curso. El gobierno Shiite-conducido de Iraq cree que un horario del retiro es esencial ganar la aprobación parlamentaria.
Los funcionarios americanos han sido menos optimistas debido a diferencias importantes en las cuestiones claves incluyendo quién puede autorizar los E.E.U.U. military operations and immunity for U.S. troops from prosecution under Iraqi law.
The White House said discussions continued on a bilateral agreement and said any timeframe discussed was due to major improvements in security over the past year.
“We are only now able to discuss conditions-based time horizons because security has improved so much. This would not have been possible 18 months ago,” White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Sunday. “We all look forward to the day when Iraqi security forces take the lead on more combat missions, allowing U.S. troops to serve in an overwatch role, and more importantly return home.”
Iraq’s position in the U.S. talks hardened after a series of Iraqi military successes against Shiite and Sunni extremists in Basra, Baghdad, Mosul and other major cities.
Violence in Iraq has declined sharply over the past year following a U.S. troop buildup, a Sunni revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq and a Shiite militia cease-fire.
But attacks continue, raising concern that the militants are trying to regroup.
The suicide bomber struck Sunday afternoon as U.S. and Iraqi troops were responding to a roadside bombing that wounded an Iraqi in Tarmiyah, 30 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
Four Iraqi civilians were killed along with the American soldier, military spokesman Lt. Col. Steve Stover said. Two American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were among 24 people wounded.
No group claimed responsibility for the blast but suicide bombings are the signature attack of al-Qaida in Iraq.
“This was a heinous attack by al-Qaida in Iraq against an Iraqi family, followed by a cowardly attack against innocent civilians, their security forces and U.S. soldiers,” Stover said.
Elsewhere, a suicide car bomber attacked the Kurdish security department in Khanaqin, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad. At least two people were killed and 25 wounded, including the commander of local Kurdish forces, Lt. Col. Majid Ahmed, police said.
Ethnic tensions have been rising in northern Iraq amid disputes between Kurds, Turkomen and mostly Sunni Arabs over Kurdish demands to annex the oil-rich city of Kirkuk into their self-ruled region.
Sawarah Ghalib, 25, who was wounded in the blast, said he believed military operations under way south of the city in Diyala province had pushed insurgents into the Khanaqin area.
“I did not expect that a terrorist attack to take place in our secure town,” Ghalib said from his bed in the Khanaqin hospital. “Al-Qaida is to blame for this attack. Operations in Diyala have pushed them here.”
In Baghdad, six people were killed in a series of bombings on the first day of the Iraqi work week.
The deadliest blast occurred about 8:15 a.m. in a crowded area where people wait for buses in the capital’s mainly Shiite southeastern district of Kamaliya. Four people were killed, including a woman and her brother, and 11 others wounded, according to police.
A car bomb later exploded as an Iraqi army patrol transporting money to a state-run bank passed by in Baghdad’s central Khillani square, killing two people including an Iraqi soldier and wounding nine other people, a police officer said.
Another Iraqi soldier was killed and five were wounded by a car bomb in Salman Pak, about 25 kilometers south of Baghdad, police said.
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Associated Press writers Hamza Hendawi, Kim Gamel and Sameer N. Yacoub in Baghdad and Yahya Barzanji in Sulaimaniyah contributed to this report.
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