Ирак требует timeline `ясному' для разведения США
Министра иностранных дел Ирака настоял воскресенье любое дело обеспеченностью с Соединенными Штатами должно содержать «очень ясное timeline» для отклонения США. войска. Бомбардировщик суицида поразил север Baghdad, убивая по крайней мере 5 людей включая американский воина.
Министра иностранных дел Hoshyar Zebari сказал репортерам что американские и иракские ведущие переговоры были «очень близки» к достижению долгосрочного соглашения о безопасности установит правила для США. войска в Ираке после ООН. мандат теряет силу в конце года.
Zebari сказало Iraqis настаивали что согласование вклюает «очень ясное timeline» для разведения США - усилия водить, но он отказали talk about специфически даты.
«Мы имеем после того как мы сказаны что это будет услови-управляемый процесс,» его добавили, предлагающ что план-график отклонения смог быть доработан если состояние безопасности изменило.
Но Zebari сделало ясно что Iraqis не будут признавать дело нуждается timeline для конца США. военное присутствие.
«Нет, никаким определенно там должно быть очень ясное timeline,» отвеченное Zebari после того как оно спрашивано если Iraqis признавали бы согласование, то которое не упомянуло даты.
Разницы над расписанием разведения имеют, котор стали один из contentious вопросов остающихся в беседах, которые начали раньше этот год. США. и иракские ведущие переговоры пропустили плановую дату 31-ое июля для завершать дело, которое должно быть одобрено парламентом Ирака.
Президент Кустик твердокаменно отказал признавать любое расписание для приносить США. войска домашние. Последний месяц, однако, al-Maliki Nouri кустика и премьер-министра согласился установить «вообще горизонт прогнозирования» для США. отклонение.
Последняя неделя, 2 старших иракских должностного лица сказали Ассошиэйтед пресс что американские ведущие переговоры имели согласование к формуле извлекло бы США. усилия от иракских городов к 30-ому июня 2009 с всем боем собираются толпой из страны к октябрю 2010.
Последние американские войска поддержки оставили бы около 3 лет более поздно, сказанные Iraqis.
Но США. должностные лица настаивают не будет согласования на специфически датах. И американские и иракские должностные лица поговорили на условии анонимности потому что беседы ongoing. Правительство Shiite-водить Ирака верит план-график разведения необходим для того чтобы выиграть парламентское утверждение.
Американские должностные лица более менее оптимистически из-за основных отличий на ключевых вопросах включая может утвердить США. 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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