2008年9月30日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,175 (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 07:42 PM CDT

People visit a cemetery during the first day of Muslim holiday Eid, in Fallujah, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. Eid marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. A former soccer pitch was turned into cemetery in 2004 during intense fighting between the U.S. military and insurgents. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - As of Monday, Sept. 29, 2008, at least 4,175 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Once again, Iraq's Ramadan ends in violence (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 04:36 PM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Ahmed Qassim spent Monday mopping up blood and sweeping broken glass from his clothing shop in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood. It wasn't how he'd hoped to mark the close of Ramadan, Islam's holy month.

Iraq says doctors can carry guns for protection (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 03:00 PM CDT

AP - Iraq will allow doctors to carry guns to protect themselves after hundreds have been targeted and killed since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the government said Monday.

Al-Maliki says security pact in US, Iraqi interest (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 02:12 PM CDT

Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's Prime Minister, arrives at a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the 2003 assassination of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, a leading opponent of Saddam Hussein, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 5, 2008. Al-Maliki told The Associated Press in an interview Monday Sept. 29, 2008 that his government is offering a compromise to reach a security accord with the United States this year because American troops are still needed in spite of the drop in violence. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday that the government is ready to compromise to reach a security accord with the United States because Iraq still needs American troops despite the drop in violence.

Iraqi president warns against delay in US deal (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 01:22 PM CDT

US soldiers search an Iraqi home south of Baghdad, in 2007. Iraq's President Jalal Talabani returned home Monday after heart surgery and warned that a delay in an agreement on the presence of US troops in the country beyond 2008 could undermine sovereignty.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - Iraq's President Jalal Talabani returned home Monday after heart surgery and warned that a delay in an agreement on the presence of US troops in the country beyond 2008 could undermine sovereignty.

Excerpts of Iraq PM comments on US deal (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 10:16 AM CDT

AP - Excerpts of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's interview Monday with The Associated Press on the status of a deal being negotiated to set the terms to continue a U.S. military presence in Iraq:

US frees 2,400 detainees in Iraq during Ramadan (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 09:26 AM CDT

A mother hugs her son following his release from a US military prison in Baghdad on September 20. American authorities have freed 2,404 detainees in four weeks of Ramadan, the US military said, still short of the 3,000 the military promised in early September to release during the Muslim fasting month.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - US authorities have freed 2,404 detainees in the four weeks of Ramadan, the American military said on Monday, still short of the 3,000 they promised to release during the Muslim fasting month.

Iraq says doctors can carry guns (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2008 08:15 AM CDT

A member of the Special Police Commandos walks inside an emergency room in Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad September 14, 2007. (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)Reuters - Doctors in Iraq will have the right to carry guns to protect themselves, the government said on Monday, in a bid to address the security concerns of a profession that has been targeted by gangsters and militants.

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