伊拉克要求`清楚的時間安排』為美國撤退
伊拉克的外交部長堅持了所有安全成交與美國必須包含「非常清楚時間安排」為美國的離開的星期天。 隊伍。 自殺炸彈碰撞巴格達北部，殺害至少五個人包括美國戰士。
外交部長Hoshyar Zebari告訴了記者美國和伊拉克談判員是「非常接近」達成將設置規則為美國的一個長期擔保協議。 隊伍在伊拉克在聯合國以後。 命令年底到期。
Zebari說伊拉克人堅持，協議包括「非常清楚時間安排」為撤退美國-被帶領的力量，但他拒绝談論具體日期。
「我們有說這是一個狀況被駕駛的過程」，他增加了，建議可能修改離開日程表，如果安全情況改變了。
但Zebari講清楚伊拉克人不會接受缺乏時間安排為美國的末端的協定。 軍事進駐。
「沒有，沒有確定地那裡必須是非常清楚時間安排」，回復的Zebari，當問時伊拉克人是否會接受沒有提及日期的一個協議。
區別在撤退時間表有成為的一個最引起爭論的問題餘留在談話，今年初開始。 美國. 并且伊拉克談判員錯過了7月31日目標日期為完成成交，必須由伊拉克的議會批准。
布什總統堅定不移地拒绝接受所有時間表為帶來美國。 隊伍家庭。 上個月，然而，布什和總理Nouri AlMaliki同意設置一個「一般時間範圍」為美國。 離開。
上星期，二位資深伊拉克官員告訴了美聯社美國談判員有協議到慣例哪些會去除美國。 力量從伊拉克城市在2009年6月30日前與所有戰鬥部隊在國家外面在2010年10月前。
最後美國支持隊伍會留下大約三年後，伊拉克人說。
但美國。 官員堅持沒有協議在具體日期。 因為談話是持續的，美國和伊拉克官員不願透露姓名講了話。 伊拉克的什葉派教徒被帶領的政府相信撤退日程表是根本贏取議會認同。
美國官員是較不樂觀的由於主要區別關於主要問題包括誰可能批准美國。 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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