Iraqi government has answered to people’s doubts concerning the American withdrawal from urban areas by the end of June this year.

Doubts concerning this issue have been raised with the resurgence of violence, thus casting concerns around the Iraqi forces’ ability to handle security responsibilities. US commanders have also named the city of Mosul as the city suspected to be handed to Iraqi forces.

However, answers from Iraqi government came to reassure the American withdrawal from urban areas by the thirtieth of June, as planed earlier, while working towards a full withdrawal form Iraq by the end of two thousand and eleven.

“The government has insisted it is committed to the timeline laid out in a US-Iraqi security agreement that calls for American forces to pull back from urban areas by the summer and from the rest of the country by the end of 2011.”

“Government spokesman Ali Dabbagh, however, said the deadlines were “non-extendable”. “These dates cannot be extended and this is consistent with the transfer and handover of responsibility to Iraqi security forces,” Dabbagh said in a statement.”-The Jordan Times