Maliki Never Asked For A Timetable

A week ago, the Iraqi PM asked for a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, or did he?

Here is the quote
"the direction is towards either a memorandum of understanding on their evacuation, or a memorandum of understanding on a timetable for their withdrawal".

Now it turns out that this is what he really said.
"The direction is towards either a memorandum of understanding on their evacuation, or a memorandum of understanding on programming their presence."

Here is the reason for the mistake.
Mr Maliki's own office had inserted the word "withdrawal" in the written version, replacing the word "presence".