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Update and Perspectives on the Status Of Forces Agreement

Plus: *SOFA negotiations rocky but developing *Iraq Oil Report offers first look at text submitted to Parliament *Kurdistan-Baghdad relations rocky *KRG signs U.N. electricity help *Iraq Oil Ministry wants helicopters *Alive in Baghdad: Sahwa, What Next After Al-Qaeda? *Iraq Press Roundup The Status Of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, is nearing a late-November deadline when Iraq’s […]

The Status Of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, is nearing a late-November deadline when Iraq’s Parliament is to recess, and the end-December deadline when the current U.N. mandate is to expire.

Iraq Oil Report broke the text Tuesday, and Parliament’s first attempt to debate it didn’t go too well, as Campbell Robertson and Suadad al-Salhy report for The New York Times "boiled over into shouting and physical confrontation."

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