Iraqi soldier killed two Americans, who will finance the U.S. presence?

Just reported, an Iraqi sol­dier opened fire on the Amer­i­can troops in Mosul killing two Amer­i­cans and injured three. The Iraqi sol­dier man­aged to escape.

There is one clear thing for the vote tomor­row: All Sunni polit­i­cal blocs + Allawi [if we want to use a sec­tar­ian divi­sion] say that the release of the detainees is not included in the Secu­rity Agree­ment (and this BBC clip shows you why).

Under “Break­ing News”, Iran­ian Farsnews claim (in Ara­bic and in Eng­lish), that the Amer­i­cans are plan­ning to stage a series of bomb attacks in case the Par­lia­ment votes against SOFA tomorrow.

True or not but Al-Hayat reported about the U.S. embassy in Bagh­dad is still lob­by­ing among the polit­i­cal blocs to accept SOFA.

Sadrists MP Nasar Al-Rubai expressed his con­fi­dence to the news­pa­per that SOFA will not pass the par­lia­ment tomorrow.

This “con­fi­dence” issue is reported on Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, which expects that Anti-SOFA blocs will go to the Fed­eral Court to solve the dis­pute on the vot­ing mech­a­nism [sim­ple major­ity or absolute major­ity].

Speak­ing about “con­fi­dence”, the pro-SOFA blocs also con­fi­dent to reach the major­ity tomor­row, the Green Zone news­pa­per Al-Sabah even dared to give us some sta­t­ics saying:

Sources revealed infor­ma­tion that 170 law­maker in the par­lia­ment will vote in favor of SOFA tomorrow.

Iraqi Shi­ites MP Al-Bayati from the United Iraqi Alliance low­ered the pre­vi­ous num­ber to 150 MP.

A ques­tion asked today Radio Sawa:

Who will finances the U.S. pres­ence in Iraq?

Played down by the same above MP saying:

Both sides [U.S. — Iraq] will form a comit­tee to decide the costs and who will pay.