BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is demanding changes to a draft deal on the status of US forces beyond this year, a key Shia ally in the governing coalition said on Sunday. "There are points in the agreement that are still pending and they can't be approved without changes in order to preserve the complete sovereignty of Iraq," the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) quoted Maliki as telling fellow Shia politicians at a meeting on Saturday. Iraq's chief negotiator Muhammad al-Haj Hammoud had told AFP on Friday that the two negotiating teams had finalised a 27-point deal to put before the two governments and it was now up to the leaders to take a decision. Hammoud said that the agreement had already been endorsed by US President George W Bush, although a White House spokesman later said that the discussions were still ongoing. The statement from the office of SIIC's leader Sheikh Abdel Aziz al-Hakim said Maliki's comments came at a meeting of the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), the Shia bloc that leads the government and in which the SIIC and Maliki's Dawa party are the two main factions. "The leaders of the UIA focussed on the security agreement between the United States and Iraq in order to ensure that the deal safeguards Iraqi sovereignty and national interests," it said. Hammoud said on Friday that the deal provides for all American combat troops to pull out of Iraqi cities by next June ahead of a complete withdrawal from Iraq by 2011. But White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said any dates in the agreement under discussion were "aspirational timelines" rather than formal deadlines. Meanwhile, three bomb attacks and a shootout claimed the lives of nine people and wounded more than two dozen in the war-torn country on Sunday, security officials said. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded when a roadside bomb blasted their patrol in the town of Bala Druz, near the restive city of Baquba which has long struggled against Al-Qaeda. In Baquba itself, two policemen were killed and six others including a woman were wounded in a shootout when insurgents fired at a police patrol, a security official with the Defence Ministry said. Earlier this month Iraqi forces backed by US troops launched a massive assault against insurgents and jihadists in Diyala, the province surrounding Baquba and one of Iraq's most dangerous areas where Al-Qaeda fighters regularly carry out attacks. Up to three people were killed and eight wounded, including five policemen, when a bomb targeting a patrol exploded on a through-road leading to Iraq's interior ministry in Baghdad, security sources at the ministry said. As police ran to the scene to help a second bomb went off, wounding another five officers, they said. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a car dealership in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing at least five people and wounding nine, police said. The attack targeted a leader of a group fighting Al-Qaeda in the town of Khalis in the central province of Diyala, said Brigadier General Torhan Yusuf Abdul Rahman, deputy chief of Kirkuk police. The leader of the group, Abdel Karim Ahmed Mindil, was inside the showroom and was killed in the blast along with four others, he said. The attack took place at around 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) in the compound of the showroom in southern Kirkuk, Rahman said. Insurgents have regularly launched attacks in oil-rich Kirkuk, a city claimed by both Arabs and Kurds.