Daniel’s 10 horns won’t attack Israel
As Long
As American Troops Are in Iraq!
This draft agreement
of withdrawal in 2011
Makes 2010 to 2015 attack date a good Choice
Since Withdrawals Would Start Next Year In 2009!
October 17, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt from the UK Guardian via World News
US army withdrawal from Iraq could start next year
Draft agreement between US and Iraq officials would see the complete withdrawal by the end of 2011
Jo Adetunji and agencies
guardian.co.uk,
Friday October 17 2008 11.31 BST
A draft agreement that would see US combat forces withdrawn from Iraqi towns and cities by the middle of next year is being considered by US officials.
Baghdad and Washington have been negotiating for seven months over the continued role of troops in the country after a UN security council mandate expires on December 31. An agreement would legalise their continued presence in the country.
The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, and the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, briefed key members of congress yesterday on
the draft agreement, which is due to be discussed with US negotiators in Iraq and senior house and senate aides today.
Details have yet to be released but the draft involves US troops withdrawing from towns and cities by June 2009 and a full withdrawal
from Iraq by the end of 2011.
A major sticking point has been immunity for US troops from Iraqi prosecution.
It is believed a compromise has been reached that would give the US jurisdiction over matters involving US troops, except in the most serious cases where off-duty personnel acting outside US army bases are involved. Some in Washington remain opposed to even limited Iraqi authority over the US military.
Senator Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate armed services committee, said: “I am sceptical of any agreement
that would subject US servicemen and women to the jurisdiction of Iraqi courts in the middle of a chaotic war.”
A Pentagon spokesman, Geoff Morrell, said the document had not been finalised but provided adequate combat and legal protection.
“I don’t think the secretary would be making phone calls in support of the document if he didn’t believe it adequately protected our forces in Iraq,” he said.
Although the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has said he hopes to approve the plan by the end of the year, it needs to be cleared by the Iraqi cabinet and the Iraqi parliament.
Some government officials and political leaders have publicly insisted on absolute sovereignty of Iraqi law over US troops.
A looming split between the two Shia parties that dominate Iraq’s government – Maliki’s Dawa party and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council – could threaten any agreement.
Britain needs to negotiate an agreement with Baghdad by December 31 over the 4,100 British troops serving in Iraq.
Al-Maliki said on Monday that talks had yet to begin.
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