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12.07.2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add comments - Sumerian News / Baghdad revealed the leadership of the Kurdistan Alliance, Mahmoud Othman, a Wednesday, for information to confirm the survival of three thousand U.S. troops in Iraq after the year 2011, stressing at the same time that the return of troops U.S. requires agreement and coordination with the Iraqi government. Mahmoud Othman, said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "recently got information from among the reliable confirm the survival of three thousand American soldiers after the date of withdrawal due end of this month," noting that "those forces will be distributed to train Iraqi air force and the protection of the U.S. Embassy and consulates. " Osman added that "U.S. forces will remain in Kuwait after the withdrawal from Iraq can not be back again only by agreement and coordination with the Iraqi government." The U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan express, yesterday Tuesday (6/12/2011), the fears of a "real" to the security of his country's embassy after the withdrawal, most notably come from some Shiite militias such as the League of the Righteous and Hezbollah, while the Commission considered the parliamentary Defense and Security, today, those statements put pressure on the government to increase the number of U.S. troops charged with protecting the embassy. The Defense Ministry confirmed on Monday that a U.S. withdrawal is in accordance with schedules prepared by the two sides, pointing out that there are currently about nine thousand American troops spread over five bases are still under U.S. control. The U.S. President Barack Obama, on 21 October 2011, that his country's troops in Iraqi territory would be in the United States during the holidays, stressing that Washington will support Iraq in all areas, while stressing the prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, a teleconference with him, the need to begin a new phase of strategic relations After the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq on schedule end of the year 2011. Under the security agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territory and waters and airspace of Iraq not later than 31 December of 2011 the current has withdrawn combat troops from towns and villages and towns of Iraq June 30, 2009. Iraq has signed and the United States, too, in 2008, the Framework Agreement strategy to support the ministries and agencies of the Iraqi transition from the strategic partnership with the Republic of Iraq to the areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security, based on reducing the number of reconstruction teams in the provinces, as well as providing important sustainable rule of law, including the police development program and the completion of the coordination and supervision and the report of the Fund for Iraq relief and reconstruction.
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