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Al-Maliki praises Obama's pullout plan
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| News Date | Sunday, July 20, 2008 06:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Speaking to a German magazine, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has praised a plan by US presidential candidate Barack Obama to withdraw US troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.
In an interview to appear in its Monday issue, the news magazine Der Spiegel asked him when US troops should leave.
"As far as we are concerned, as soon as possible. The US presidential candidate Barack Obama has spoken of within 16 months. We think that would be the right time frame, with some slight variations," he said.
Asked if this was a recommendation to US voters to pick the presumptive Democratic nominee Obama rather than the expected Republican nominee John McCain, he said, "Whoever counts on shorter periods in Iraq today is closer to reality." |
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