Bloomberg reports Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki hasn't endorsed any specific plan for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq:
Al-Maliki supports a "general vision"of U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq and has not backed a plan by Obama, the presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, for a 16- month withdrawal window, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in an e-mailed statement in Baghdad today.President Bush and Maliki have agreed to a "general time horizon" for the reduction of U.S. combat troops in Iraq.Al-Maliki was quoted in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine published on its Web site yesterday as saying Obama's plan is "the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes."
Comments al-Maliki made to the magazine were "misunderstood and mistranslated" and were not "conveyed accurately," al- Dabbagh said in the statement.
Remarks made by the prime minister or any member of the Iraqi government "should not be understood as support to any U.S. presidential candidate," the statement said.
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