US withdrawal will end resistance pretexts, Maliki

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Premier Nouri al-Maliki stressed today that the US forces withdrawal at the end of this year will terminate any allegations for combating the occupier, as well as Qaeda organization, stressing the Iraqi security forces will be capable of providing internal and external security. In a press conference, attended by IraqiNews.com, he added that the agreement with Washington stipulated that no US soldier will remain after 31 December, 2011. He confirmed that “relations with America will turn from military to economic, scientific and cultural relations”. US President Barrack Obama announced Friday his commitment for withdrawing US forces by the end of this year, thus putting an end to the American war in Iraq . 955