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Confidential document: the extension to the Americans for five years in 9 rules
Date: Mon 11/07/2011 9:51
Baghdad / menopause Hossam Acommok and Ines Tariq
reveal a confidential memo obtained by the "scope" for semi-agreement between Baghdad and Washington on the survival of U.S. forces until the end of 2016, also identifies the note nine headquarters and the rules used by the Americans in Iraq after the end of the year. This came at a time ruled out senior Iraqi official the possibility of Iraqi political leaders reached final agreement on the withdrawal. While surprised U.S. defense secretary visited Baghdad coincided with the debate on the situation of his country's forces.
According to the note, which reserves the term with a copy of them, Washington is proposing the following: "The use of land, according to Iraqi law, the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to allow the Embassy of the United States using the real estate described later with accessories based on the use of paid wage an annual rate of a thousand dinars for each property, in support United States Mission to the country. "
and on the footprint, the Americans after the end of the agreement will be determined by the note in the governorates following "Basra at the site of the consulate temporary site Basra Air, but in Kirkuk and Mosul, so at the embassy site in these two provinces, while it will be their presence in Baghdad in a training facility, police near from the Baghdad Police College and the Ministry of the Interior, and the location of Baghdad to fly into Baghdad airport, and a facility to support the embassy near the embassy inside the international zone, and in Erbil concentrated presence in the facility support to the consulate near the airport in Erbil, and within the airport in Erbil. "
The term land use Vtpinh note " ends, on December 31, 2016, and may be extended period of use after the approval of the parties to it. "
, it said a senior Iraqi official said that before the country's leaders who We gave themselves two weeks to take a position on the withdrawal or the survival of U.S. forces that are supposed to pull the end of the year , weak opportunities to reach an agreement in this regard. Ali al-Moussawi, the media advisor to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told AFP that "a lot of politicians have been busy at Saturday's hearing things secondary did not live up to the level of concern the national, but also tried some of them provide concerns factional and party on the national."
"He was supposed to focus discussions of the meeting the most important topics of concern to the Iraqi street, a U.S. withdrawal, and discuss whether the country needs the survival of the power of a particular size, or not, because this issue at the national level, but has not been decided. "
, the minister arrived to defend the new American Leon Panetta, on Sunday, to Iraq on a surprise visit.
A source in the prime minister that "the Secretary of Defense's new Leon Panetta arrived this afternoon (yesterday), to the Iraqi capital Baghdad on a surprise visit was not announced in advance."
The source, who asked not to be named to "The visit of U.S. Secretary of Defense came to coincide with the talk about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country".
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