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BAGHDAD, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A draft deal with the Iraqi government calls for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities in 2009 and exit the country in three years if violence stays low.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told The Times of London the draft agreement also would bar the United States from unilaterally mounting attacks inside Iraq beginning next year.
The proposal also would restrict the power of arrest for U.S. soldiers by requiring to turn over any detainee to a new U.S.-Iraqi committee, which would have to approve any operation before it is undertaken, the Times said Thursday.
The agreement concerns the status of U.S. forces in Iraq beyond the end of this year, when the U.N. document authorizing the troops' presence in Iraq expires.
Establishing permanent U.S. military bases, a bone of contention for Iraqi citizens, is not part of the agreement, Zebari said. "Our negotiators and the Americans have almost brought it to a close," Zebari said. "It is not a closed deal but it is very close."
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, President Jalal Talabani and other Iraqi leaders must approve the plan, which observers say could happen this month.
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