US Forces withdrawal from Iraq continues, Iraqi Military source says
A U.S. soldier walks past parked military armoured vehicles that have ended their mission in Iraq, within Victory Base Compound in Baghdad November 7, 2011. The U.S. military is vacating Saddam Hussein’s ornate palaces at its war headquarters in Baghdad and will turn the property over to Iraq next month, but Saddam’s prison toilet is leaving with the Americans. Surrounded by 42 km (27 miles) of blast walls and razor wire, Victory, the largest of the 505 bases the U.S. military once operated in Iraq, housed over 40,000 soldiers and up to 25,000 workers. Picture taken November 7, 2011. REUTERS/Saad Shalash
BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The process of the US troops withdrawal from Iraqi territories is taking place continuously and in a routine manner, an Iraqi Miliary source said on Tuesday. “The the US troops withdrawal is taking place in a routine manner and according to a plan, prepared by the American forces, that is taking place through the highways in central and southern Iraq towards the strategic highway, allocated for the foreign forces in Iraq since 2003,” the Iraqi military source told IraqiNews.com news agency. 2003. He said that the American forces “are carrying out their logistic appliances, along with other goods and soldiers through the Startegic Highway,” adding that “the American forces would head after their departure from Basra to Safwan, 60 km to the south of Basra, towards Kuwait.,” confirming that the Strategic Highay had not witnessed any violence acts during the withdrawal. Noteworthy is that the Strategic Treaty, signed between Baghdad and Washington in 2008, the American forces were to completely withdraw from Iraq by the end of December next.