US general sees Iraq pullout without Arab-Kurd deal
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The top US commander in Iraq said on Wednesday that US forces in the volatile north would probably be the last to leave the country at the end of 2011, acknowledging Arab-Kurdish disputes were unlikely to be settled before that time despite signs of progress last year.
General Ray Odierno has singled out ethnic tensions between Arabs and Kurds in northern Iraq as the biggest single threat to the country's stability. (Reuters)
