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U.S. Troops Leaving Iraq, Fulfilling Withdrawal Deadline Agreed to in 2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John R. Crook
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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 106 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 138 - 141
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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1 Available at http://www.acq.osd.mil/log/PS/p_vault/SE_SFA.pdf.

2 Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 103 AJIL 132, 132 (2009)Google Scholar.

3 See, e.g., Status of Forces Agreement, in Army in Europe Pamphlet 600-8-8-1 (May 8, 2009), at https://aepubs. army.mil/pdfpubs/aep600-8-8-l.htm.

4 Chris Carrol, Experts: Immunity Dispute Won’t End U.S.-Iraq Cooperation, Stars & Stripes, Oct. 7, 2011, available at http://www.stripes.com/news/experts-immunity-dispute-won-t-end-u-s-iraq-cooperation-1.157211.

5 Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 102 AJIL 155, 161 (2008)Google Scholar, 103 AJIL 325, 360 (2009).

6 Tim Arango & Michael S. Schmidt, Iraq Denies Legal Immunity to U.S. Troops After 2011, N.Y. Times, Oct. 5, 2011, at A4; Yes to U.S. Trainers, But No to Immunity, Wash. Post, Oct. 5, 2011, at A8; Dan Zak, Military Immunity a Sticking Point in Iraq Training Plan, Wash. Post, Oct. 9, 2011, at A12.

7 Tim Arango & Michael S. Schmidt, Despite Difficult Talks, Both Sides Had Expected Some American Troops to Stay, N.Y. Times, Oct. 22, 2011, at A8.

8 Mark Landler, Last U.S. Soldiers to Exit from Iraq in 2011, Obama Says, N.Y. TIMES, Oct. 22,2011, at Al; Scott Wilson & Karen DeYoung, All U.S. Troops to Leave Iraq by End of Year, Wash. Post, Oct. 22, 2011, at A1.

9 White House Press Release, Remarks by the President on Ending the War in Iraq (Oct. 21, 2011), at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/21 /remarks-president-ending-war-iraq.

10 Karen DeYoung, GOP Candidates United Against Iraq Withdrawal, Wash. Post, Oct. 22, 2011, at A9.

11 Iraq Says It May Still Host U.S. Trainers, Wash. Post, Oct. 23, 2011, at A9.

12 See section below (in Brief Notes): Thousands of Contract Security Personnel to Protect U.S. Diplomatic Operations in Iraq.

13 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2011/54-38, Interview with David Gregory of NBC’s Meet the Press (Oct. 23, 2011), at http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/10/175993.htm.

14 Walter Pincus, How Iraq’s Domestic Situation Drove Its Foreign Policy on U.S. Troop Withdrawal, Wash. Post, Nov. 22, 2011, at A17.