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Iraq faction seeks 2011 US exit

By Ernesto Londono and Mary Beth Sheridan

Published: October 20 2008 03:00 | Last updated: October 20 2008 03:00

The Iraqi parliament's biggest political bloc has called for all US troops to leave the country by the end of 2011 as a condition for agreeing to extend the US mandate to remain beyond the end of this year, an official said yesterday.

The United Iraqi Alliance also insisted on a bigger role for Iraq in deciding if US soldiers accused of wrongdoing were subject to Iraqi courts.

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