‘Critical time’ for Iraq as US withdraws

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‘Critical time’ for Iraq as US withdraws

BAGHDAD – Iraq faces a “very critical time” as US forces leave, the United Nations envoy to Baghdad said on Monday, calling on Iraqis to work together to address the myriad challenges the country faces.

“We are in a very critical time, a very important period and phase of the history of Iraq, after the announcement of President (Barack) Obama … to withdraw troops completely,” Martin Kobler, the UN secretary general’s special representative for Iraq, told a news conference.


Obama said on October 21 that all American troops will leave Iraq by the end of 2011, bringing to a close a war that has stretched for over eight years.

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