Irak richiede il timeline libero del `' per ritiro degli Stati Uniti
Il ministro straniero dell'Irak ha insistito domenica che tutto l'affare di sicurezza con gli Stati Uniti deve contenere “un timeline molto chiaro„ per la partenza degli Stati Uniti truppe. Un bombardiere di suicide ha colpito il nord di Bagdad, mortale almeno cinque genti compreso un soldato americano.
Il ministro straniero Hoshyar Zebari ha detto a reporter a che i negoziatori americani ed iracheni fossero “molto vicini„ a raggiungere un accordo di sicurezza di lunga durata che regolerà le regole per gli Stati Uniti truppe in Irak dopo il U.N. il mandato espira alla fine dell'anno.
Zebari ha detto che gli Iracheni stavano insistendo che l'accordo include “un timeline molto chiaro„ per il ritiro degli Stati Uniti - le forze condotte, ma lui hanno rifiutato di parlare delle date specifiche.
“Lo abbiamo detto che questo è un processo condizione-guidato,„ abbiamo aggiunto, suggerendo che il programma di partenza potrebbe essere modificato se la situazione di sicurezza cambiasse.
Ma Zebari ha fatto chiaramente che gli Iracheni non accetterebbero un affare che difettasse di un timeline per l'estremità degli Stati Uniti presenza militare.
“No, nessun definitivamente là deve essere un timeline molto chiaro,„ Zebari risposto una volta chiesto se gli Iracheni accettassero un accordo che non ha accennato le date.
Le differenze sopra un orario di ritiro hanno quello diventato delle edizioni più polemiche restanti nei colloqui, che hanno cominciato presto questo anno. Gli Stati Uniti ed i negoziatori iracheni hanno mancato una data dell'obiettivo del 31 luglio per completare l'affare, che deve essere approvato dal Parlamento dell'Irak.
Il presidente Bush ha rifiutato steadfastly di accettare tutto l'orario per portare gli Stati Uniti truppe domestiche. Ultimo mese, tuttavia, Bush e Al-Maliki di Nouri del Primo Ministro hanno accosentito per regolare “un orizzonte generale di tempo„ per gli Stati Uniti partenza.
Ultima settimana, due funzionari iracheni maggiori hanno detto alla pressa collegata a che i negoziatori americani avessero accordo ad una formula quale rimuoverebbero gli Stati Uniti le forze dalle città irachene entro il 30 giugno 2009 con tutto il combattimento si aduna dal paese entro l'ottobre 2010.
Le ultime truppe americane di sostegno lascerebbero circa tre anni più successivamente, gli Iracheni detti.
Ma gli Stati Uniti i funzionari insistono che non ci è accordo nelle date specifiche. Sia i funzionari americani che iracheni hanno parlato sullo stato di anonimato perché i colloqui sono continui. Il governo Shiite-condotto dell'Irak crede che un programma di ritiro sia essenziale per vincere l'approvazione parlamentare.
I funzionari americani sono stati meno ottimisti a causa delle differenze importanti sui punti chiave compreso chi può autorizzare gli Stati Uniti 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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