Pentagon declines comment on Iraq timetable

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Media: AFP
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Date: 25 October 2006



WASHINGTON, Oct 25, 2006 (AFP) - The Pentagon declined Wednesday to comment
on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's rejection of a timetable to
stabilise his war-torn country.

"What the prime minister said today, I don't have anything to address that,"
US Department of Defense spokesman Eric Ruff said.

Ruff said he had no information on reports that US ambassador to Baghdad
Zalmay Khalilzad Tuesday said there was a timetable for progress battling
Iraq's insurgency.

"I don't have any knowledge other than what I saw yesterday. I thought it
came across that it is a partnership, that they are working together," he
said.

Embattled Prime Minister Maliki turned back suggestions that Washington
could press him with a timetable or deadline on the insurgency.

"Everyone knows that this government is a government of the popular will and
no one may set a timetable for it," Maliki said at a news conference in
Baghdad.
 
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