Iraq exige o timeline desobstruído do `' para a retirada dos E.U.
O ministro extrangeiro de Iraq insistiu domingo que todo o negócio da segurança com os Estados Unidos deve conter “um timeline muito desobstruído” para a partida de ESTADOS UNIDOS. tropas. Um bombardeiro do suicide golpeou o norte de Bagdade, matando pelo menos cinco povos including um soldado americano.
O ministro extrangeiro Hoshyar Zebari disse a repórteres que os negotiators americanos e Iraqi eram “muito próximos” a alcançar um acordo de segurança a longo prazo que ajustasse as réguas para ESTADOS UNIDOS. tropas em Iraq após o U.N. o mandato expira no final do ano.
Zebari disse que os Iraqis insistiam que o acordo inclui “um timeline muito desobstruído” para a retirada de ESTADOS UNIDOS - as forças conduzidas, mas recusaram falar sobre datas específicas.
“Nós temo-lo dito que este é um processo condição-dirigido,” adicionamos, sugerindo que a programação da partida poderia ser modificada se a situação da segurança mudar.
Mas Zebari fêz claramente que os Iraqis não aceitariam um negócio que faltasse um timeline para a extremidade dos ESTADOS UNIDOS. presença militar.
O “No., nenhum definitivamente lá tem que ser um timeline muito desobstruído,” Zebari respondido quando perguntado se os Iraqis aceitarem um acordo que não mencione datas.
As diferenças sobre um timetable da retirada têm tornado das edições as mais contentious restantes nas conversas, que começaram cedo este ano. ESTADOS UNIDOS. e os negotiators Iraqi faltaram uma data do alvo julho de 31 para terminar o negócio, que deve ser aprovado pelo parliament de Iraq.
O presidente Bush recusou steadfastly aceitar todo o timetable para trazer ESTADOS UNIDOS. tropas home. Último mês, entretanto, Bush e o al-Maliki de Nouri do ministro principal concordaram ajustar “um horizonte geral do tempo” para uns ESTADOS UNIDOS. partida.
Última semana, dois oficiais Iraqi sênior disseram à imprensa associada que os negotiators americanos tiveram o acordo a uma fórmula qual removeria ESTADOS UNIDOS. as forças das cidades Iraqi junho por 30, 2009 com todo o combate agrupam-se fora do país por outubro 2010.
As últimas tropas americanas da sustentação deixariam aproximadamente três anos mais tarde, os Iraqis ditos.
Mas ESTADOS UNIDOS. os oficiais insistem que não há nenhum acordo em datas específicas. Os oficiais americanos e Iraqi falaram na condição do anonymity porque as conversas são ongoing. O governo Shiite-conduzido de Iraq acredita que uma programação da retirada é essencial ganhar a aprovaçã0 parliamentary.
Os oficiais americanos foram mais menos optimistic por causa das diferenças principais nas edições chaves including quem pode autorizar ESTADOS UNIDOS. 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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