Cheney put pressure on the leaders of Iraq and bomb kills 14 in Arbil
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - pressure Vice President Dick Cheney, the American leaders of Iraq to move without delay toward approving agreements to share power Washington says it is necessary to end sectarian violence.
The Cheney visit, which was not declared before, which came in the framework of a tour in the Middle East to the impatience of the United States about Iraq's reluctance to approve laws on the distribution of oil revenues and other basic procedures with the leaders of the American army increased forces to secure Baghdad.
Cheney said that the talks also focused on security campaign in Baghdad, which includes the deployment of 30 thousand additional American troops and seen as the last chance to prevent the outbreak of civil war between Shiites and Sunnis.
"Cheney told a press conference "stressed the importance of achieving progress in the subjects before us, not only on security issues but also political issues stockpiled before the Iraqi government."
"I think they know that, in their interest and in our interest that could achieve progress on the political front while we deal with security issues."
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Shiite government was committed to the restoration of order and national reconciliation and ensuring said that all Iraqis on their share of Iraq's enormous oil wealth.
It highlights the serious security challenges plaguing Iraq resulted in a suicide truck bomb attack that killed 14 people and injured 87 in the Kurdish area located in the north of the country, which enjoys relative calm, as least three Iraqi journalists and the driver died after gunmen forced to disembark from their car and tortured and then shot they fire near the northern city of Kirkuk.
As an explosion apparently caused by a rocket Morter causing tremendous boom in the green region where Cheney and journalists accompanying him.
Journalists were landing to a shelter, but that McBride spokeswoman for Cheney said he had not hampered the work.
She added, "has not impaired his work .. Not affected. The Green Zone constantly exposed to mortar attacks.
Exposed President George Bush growing pressure to show concrete progress in the ongoing war four years ago, which killed more than 3300 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.
The killing American soldiers daily, American officials urged the Iraqi parliament to cancel planned summer recess last two months.
Robert Gates, said the American Defense Secretary, during a visit to Iraq last month that progress on a series of laws, including a bill for the sharing of wealth Iraqi oil will be an important factor in Washington's decision to keep the troop level high.
Cheney said that he could not predict whether the Iraqi Parliament abolished the summer vacation in July and August, but said "any unnecessary delay would be difficult to justify."
Deputies said the Iraqi parliament this week that they had shorter vacations, but refused to American pressure to cancel the holiday.
Cheney arrived in Baghdad on the same day, which showed the opinion poll conducted by USA Today in cooperation with the Foundation Jalob that six out of every ten Americans favor a timetable for withdrawal of American forces despite the fact that a clear majority expects the outbreak of civil war in Iraq if the American forces withdrew in next year.
Last week, Bush used the veto (veto) against a bill for the expenses of the war, he called for the withdrawal of combat troops no later than October 1st October.
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Cheney is visiting Iraq at a critical time. It threatened the leaders of the Sunni minority to withdraw from the government al-Maliki they claim it is ignoring the interests of the year.
Washington says that there is a role for Sunnis in the government to attract the year strongly to the political process and defuse the Sunni insurgency.
They also threatened the Kurds close allies of the United States to disrupt the oil bill in Parliament. The bill is the American standard to another part of legislation to end the ban on former members of the Baath party from assuming public posts a plan received strong Shiite opposition.
The attack Kurdistan, which tells the police that the truck that was used was loaded with approximately 800 kilograms of explosives covered products cleaning kitchens rare event in the Kurdish area producing oil and autonomous which is usually calm enjoyed more than other parts of Iraq.
Officials said the explosion occurred near the Interior Ministry Kurdish government in the capital, Irbil, killing 14 and wounding 87.
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