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BAGHDAD

To reinforce the message, the Iraqis are asking for changes to the deal that would effectively method out extending the U.S. military presence beyond 2011.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his allies are also describing the agreement not as a formula for long-term U.S.-Iraqi security cooperation

It’s unclear whether this will be enough to win transversely the Iranians and Iraqi critics

The Iraqis want expanded Iraqi jurisdiction from hand to hand U.S. troops and rejection of a clause that could allow the soldiers to stay above a tentative Dec. 31, 2011, deadline.

Iran strongly opposes the agreement, fearing it could lead to U.S. troops remaining in a neighboring country indefinitely.

With Iranian sensitivities in mind, the Iraqis in like manner want an explicit ban on the U.S. using Iraqi territory to attack its neighbors

If Washington won’t bend, clew Iraqi politicians put faith in the act will not at any time win parliament’s approval. U.S. diplomats are studying the proposals, and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said a response is expected by Wednesday.

But some U.S. officials in Washington have privately expressed doubts about chances to reach an agreement before the U.N. edict authorizing the U.S. mission expires at the end of next month.

Without one agreement or a new U.N. mandate, the U.S. military would bear to suspend all assuredness and help operations in Iraq.

Privately, many Iraqi lawmakers put faith in they still need the 145,000 U.S. troops because Iraq’sitting own army and police aren’t exist ready to replace them. Some U.S. commanders privately doubt they would even subsist ready by 2012.

But many of the intolerant and ethnically based parties are reluctant to take a stand, fearing a backlash among Iraqis who are eager to see some end to the U.S. personality.

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