23/10/2011 14:10
Baghdad, October 23 / October (Rn) - The Commission on Security and Defense Council of the Iraqi parliament on Sunday that Iraq received so far 485 military base from U.S. forces in the steps taken by the last for the complete withdrawal from Iraq at the end of this year. The Iraqi leaders delegated Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to negotiate with Washington to keep U.S. trainers after the due date for withdrawal in order to train Iraqi forces. But President Barack Obama announced Friday that he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, in a sign of failure of negotiations between the two sides. The dispute centered on legal immunity, which was called America by giving coaches and refuse to Iraq in addition to the disagreement on the number of those who remain of American soldiers. A member of the Commission on Security and Defence parliamentary governor Zamili told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the number of military bases that fall within the Iraqi government, U.S. troops reached 485 base, and remained there were 20 military base will be delivered during the next two months. " He Zamili that "the process of U.S. withdrawal is nearing completion and that Obama will implement his promise to fully withdraw from Iraq before the start of the new year." The American withdrawal comes under the security agreement signed by both sides in 2008 which states that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territories and waters and airspace of Iraq no later than December 31 / December of this year 2011. and began U.S. military on Thursday a new stage in the withdrawal declared by Iraq, the end of the year with the termination of the mission his battalion in the north of the country . There are still about 35,500 U.S. troops in Iraq. and since the army entered the U.S. at the head of international forces toppled former Iraqi regime in 2003 killed about 4,400 U.S. troops and about 175 thousand Iraqi civilians, according to some estimates. From: Mohamed Tayeb. Open: Abdullah Sabri
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