2008年9月7日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Kuwait to discuss war payment in historic Iraq visit (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:44 AM CDT

Reuters - Kuwait's prime minister will travel to Baghdad this week in the Gulf state's first high-level visit to Iraq since Saddam Hussein invaded his tiny neighbor in 1990, an Iraqi government official said on Sunday.

How Fast Should Iraq Re-Arm? (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:05 AM CDT

Time.com - While the U.S. goes slow on withdrawing troops from Iraq, Baghdad is seeking sophisticated warplanes to defend itself

Baghdad's current problem: regulating private power (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 11:11 PM CDT

A man untangles electric cables that feed an apartment complex from a private generator in a neighbourhood in Baghdad in August. Iraq's capital throbs to the hum of thousands of polluting generators, but now the authorities in Baghdad want to regulate the private power network that has developed amid the ruins of the public grid.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's capital throbs to the hum of thousands of polluting generators, but now the authorities in Baghdad want to regulate the private power network that has developed amid the ruins of the public grid.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,155 (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 06:10 PM CDT

An Iraqi Army soldier stands guard during a ceremony as U.S. Army soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division hand the security control of Radwaniyah area to the Iraqi Army's 17th Division in the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/ Loay Hameed)AP - As of Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, at least 4,155 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

At least nine killed and 50 wounded in Iraq violence (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 07:44 AM CDT

Dozens of suspected militants are detained by Iraqi police in the northeastern town of Baquba on September 5. At least nine people were killed in three attacks in Iraq, including a car bomb in Al-Wehda that claimed six lives and wounded 50.(AFP/null)AFP - At least nine people were killed in three attacks in Iraq on Saturday, including a car bomb in a northern Iraq market that claimed six lives and wounded 50, police and security said.

UN envoy presses Iraq on controversial election (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 07:39 AM CDT

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura speaks to reporters after meeting Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani -- Iraq's most respected Shiite cleric -- in the holy city of Najaf. Mistura urgued politicians to get moving on a key provincial election law that remains bogged down in controversy over the administration of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.(AFP/Qassem Zein)AFP - The UN envoy to Iraq on Saturday urged politicians to get moving on a key provincial election law that remains bogged down in controversy over the administration of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.

Iraq's anti-Qaeda fighters fear for their future (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 04:54 AM CDT

US Major General John Kelly (left) and Anbar province governor Mamoon Sami Rashid sign documents during a handover ceremony in the provincial capital of Ramadi on September 1. Iraqi forces took over control of the Sunni Anbar province from the US military on September 1.(AFP/Wathiq Khuzaie)AFP - Sunni Arab fighters battling Al-Qaeda in Iraq say their future is bleak as the Shiite government prepares to take over responsibility for them from the Americans and they also face jihadist fury.

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