Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki demanded the removal of American checkpoints from the streets of Baghdad on Tuesday, in what appeared to be his latest and boldest gambit in an increasingly tense struggle for more independence from his American protectors.
For their part, Mr. Malaki and other leading Shiites have begun to chafe at American control of the military and what they view as American favoritism toward Sunnis. On Wednesday, Mr. Maliki challenged an American assertion that the two governments had agreed on a timetable for stabilizing Iraq. The toll of American deaths in October was at least 103.
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