伊拉克要求`清楚的时间安排’为美国撤退
伊拉克的外交部长坚持了所有安全成交与美国必须包含“非常清楚时间安排”为美国的离开的星期天。 队伍。 自杀炸弹碰撞巴格达北部，杀害至少五个人包括美国战士。
外交部长Hoshyar Zebari告诉了记者美国和伊拉克谈判员是“非常接近”达成将设置规则为美国的一个长期担保协议。 队伍在伊拉克在联合国以后。 命令年底到期。
Zebari说伊拉克人坚持，协议包括“非常清楚时间安排”为撤退美国-被带领的力量，但他拒绝谈论具体日期。
“我们有说这是一个状况被驾驶的过程”，他增加了，建议可能修改离开日程表，如果安全情况改变了。
但Zebari讲清楚伊拉克人不会接受缺乏时间安排为美国的末端的协定。 军事进驻。
“没有，没有确定地那里必须是非常清楚时间安排”，回复的Zebari，当问时伊拉克人是否会接受没有提及日期的一个协议。
区别在撤退时间表有成为的一个最引起争论的问题余留在谈话，今年初开始。 美国. 并且伊拉克谈判员错过了7月31日目标日期为完成成交，必须由伊拉克的议会批准。
布什总统坚定不移地拒绝接受所有时间表为带来美国。 队伍家庭。 上个月，然而，布什和总理Nouri AlMaliki同意设置一个“一般时间范围”为美国。 离开。
上星期，二位资深伊拉克官员告诉了美联社美国谈判员有协议到惯例哪些会去除美国。 力量从伊拉克城市在2009年6月30日前与所有战斗部队在国家外面在2010年10月前。
最后美国支持队伍会留下大约三年后，伊拉克人说。
但美国。 官员坚持没有协议在具体日期。 因为谈话是持续的，美国和伊拉克官员不愿透露姓名讲了话。 伊拉克的什叶派教徒被带领的政府相信撤退日程表是根本赢取议会认同。
美国官员是较不乐观的由于主要区别关于主要问题包括谁可能批准美国。 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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