{"id":1194,"date":"2011-01-14T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2011-01-14T08:11:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:11:24","slug":"deadly-bombs-mar-biden-s-iraq-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/01\/14\/1194\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly bombs mar Biden&#8217;s Iraq visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"iraq-bomb-blast\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/iraq-bomb-blast.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"211\" \/>At least two people have been killed in bomb blasts in Iraq, shortly after the US vice-president arrived in the capital for talks about the future of American troops there.<br \/>Three separate explosions shook the capital, Baghdad, on Thursday, Iraqi interior ministry officials said.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One person was killed and at least two others wounded in the first attack near a Shia Muslim mosque in the Karrada neighbourhood, while a roadside bomb killed one civilian and wounded four others near a Sunni mosque elsewhere in central Baghdad.<br \/>At least four people were wounded in the third explosion near a Sunni mosque in Adhamiya, in the capital&#8217;s north.<br \/>The violence erupted hours after Joe Biden, the US vice-president, flew into Iraq on an unnannounced visit.<br \/>He met early on Thursday with General Lloyd Austin and James Jeffrey, the US ambassador, at the American embassy in Baghdad.<br \/>Biden&#8217;s trip was the first by a high-level US official since Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, was re-appointed for a second term following Iraq&#8217;s approval of a new cabinet last month.<br \/>&#8220;I&#8217;m here to help the Iraqis celebrate the progress they&#8217;ve made. They&#8217;ve formed a government and that&#8217;s a good thing,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;They have got a long way to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Withdrawing US troops<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plans to withdraw up to 50,000 US troops still remaining in Iraq were likely to be up for discussion during Biden&#8217;s trip.<br \/>Iraqi officials said they expected the issue of whether to keep some US forces in Iraq beyond the December 31 deadline would dominate Biden&#8217;s talks on Thursday with al-Maliki, Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, and Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.<br \/>Under a security agreement between the US and Iraq, all troops are to leave the country by the end of the year.<br \/>Iraq&#8217;s top military commander, however, has said US troops should stay until Iraq&#8217;s security forces can defend its borders\u00a0 &#8211; which he said could take until 2020.<br \/>Al-Maliki is under pressure not to extend the US military&#8217;s presence beyond the end of 2011.<br \/>Biden&#8217;s talks with Iraqi officials come after visits to Kabul, where he met Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and Islamabad, where he held talks with senior Pakistaniofficials.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Agencies<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two people have been killed in bomb blasts in Iraq, shortly after the US vice-president arrived in the capital for talks about the future of American troops there.Three separate explosions shook the capital, Baghdad, on Thursday, Iraqi interior ministry officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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