IRAQ: On Ground Updates - August 03, 2011

IRAQ: On Ground Updates

Iraqi Leaders Announce Agreement to Negotiations on Keeping American Soldiers in Country after December 31st Deadline

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani – A Cropped 2005 U.S. Government Image

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Under intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi leaders announced early Wednesday they had agreed to start negotiations on keeping some American soldiers in the country after the current December 31st deadline for all U.S. troops to have left Iraq... The decision was announced following more than four hours of closed-door talks led by President Jalal Talabani. Most reporters had rushed home to beat the 1 a.m. curfew still in force... A U.S. embassy official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the Iraqi talks said that any agreement with Iraq to keep soldiers here would require immunity from criminal prosecution for all U.S. military personnel, an issue that would have to be approved by the Iraqi parliament...

Read the full report at link below...

Iraq agrees to start talks on keeping some U.S. forces

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It's not over yet folks... Not by a long shot.

AubreyJ.........

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