After months of talks, US and Iraqi officials had reached agreement on a pact that would require US forces to withdraw from Iraq by 2011. But all this could now change with the discovery of a rifle (pictured above) in Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is considering a draft deal with Iraq that would provide a new legal basis to keep American forces there after a UN mandate expires on December 31st, the Pentagon has said.
The rifle ‘goes a long way to showing that the threat to the United States is far from neutralised,’ Lt. Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee today. The situation in Iraq is still dire,’ he said.
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