By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iraq wants to remove language allowing US troops to stay in the country after 2011 from a proposed security agreement now under negotiation, a Shi'ite lawmaker close to the Iraqi prime minister said Thursday.
Ali al-Adeeb also said the Iraqis want a joint US-Iraqi committee to decide whether US soldiers accused of crimes off base were really on authorized missions.
The current draft calls for all US troops to leave by Dec. 31, 2011 unless the government asks them to stay. It also gives Iraqi courts limited jurisdiction over US troops accused of major crimes committed off post and off duty.
Those are among proposed changes which the Iraqis say must be made in the draft agreement before it can be approved by parliament in time for a Dec. 31 deadline.
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