US warns Iraq of 'difficult days'
US President Barack Obama says US troops have withdrawn from Iraq's towns and cities on schedule, but he warned of "difficult days" ahead.
Mr Obama described Tuesday's handover to Iraqis as a milestone, but said the country's leaders would face "hard choices" on politics and security.
As Iraqis celebrated the US withdrawal, a car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk killed at least 27 people.
In the past two weeks about 250 people have been killed in a wave of attacks.
Iraqi and US troops have been on alert for attacks during the pullback.
As Iraq marked the handover with a public holiday called National Sovereignty Day, President Obama said: "Iraq's future is in the hands of its own people."
"The Iraqi people are rightly treating this as a cause for celebration.
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- News Source: Voice of America | 4 months agoDays before embarking on a multistop international trip, U.S...Mr. Obama told the Associated Press the celebration will be at the Camp David presidential retreat outside Washington. He said the thought of having about 20 pre-teen girls at the camp...
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- News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal | 4 months agoVice President Joe Biden landed in Iraq on Thursday evening to meet top Iraqi leaders and visit American troops during the July Fourth weekend. The White House recently said Mr. Biden would be taking a more active role in Iraqi policy focusing on...
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- Blog Source: videocafe.crooksandliars.comThe top US commander in Iraq says that Iraqi security forces are ready to take over responsibility for security in the cities Tuesday. "The continued improvement in overall stability and security makes this the right time for us to turn ...
- Blog Source: trendsupdates.comThe troop withdrawal is expected to end by August 2010, with each and every soldier back in the United States. The handover to Iraqi security forces is just one step for President Obama's troop withdrawal initiative. ...
- Blog Source: www.ironmagazineforums.comMidnight's handover to Iraqi forces filled many citizens with pride but also trepidation that government forces are not ready and that violence will rise. Shiites fear more bombings by Sunni militants; Sunnis fear that the Shiite-dominated ..... In
- Blog Source: ricks.foreignpolicy.comI think the Iraqi forces can do most of the job. People have to realize that Iraq is a different place then the previous times the U.S. tried to hand over responsibility to them. In most of southern Iraq for example there are hardly any .... The
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Video Source: youtube.comKeith Olbermann interviews ...Video Source: youtube.comseen real progress, but the fact is that more and more the Iraqi government ... - Video Source: youtube.comSecurity handover ignites ...Video Source: youtube.comRecent violence in Iraq has left many wondering if the Iraqi forces are ...
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