2008年10月12日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Official: 3,000 Christians flee Iraq's Mosul (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 09:35 PM CDT

A fourteen year old boy reacts next to his injured father Sheik Azad Khurshid, a Sunni imam, at a hospital in Kirkuk, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Sheik was injured when a bomb planted underneath his car exploded, police said. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)AP - Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,181 (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 07:17 PM CDT

A tribal member gets on a bus after attending the opening ceremony of a new business initiative for training unemployeed Iraqis and develop local business at the U.S. military base in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad October 7, 2008. The U.S. military and Iraq's new leaders had hoped Saddam's execution in 2006 would allow the country to move on. But in Salahuddin province, where Dujail lies, Saddam still casts a long shadow. He was born and buried there, and drew most of his inner-circle from the province. Picture taken October 7, 2008. To match feature IRAQ/DUJAIL REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ)AP - As of Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, at least 4,181 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

War-weary Saddam victims miss his iron rule (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 07:09 PM CDT

A woman walks past the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, October 11, 2008. (Bassim Shati/Reuters)Reuters - Saddam Hussein was hanged for killing 148 Shi'ite men and boys in Dujail in 1982. But today, some people in this town on the Tigris say they miss life under the Iraqi dictator because they felt more secure.

Thousands of Christians flee killings in Mosul (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 05:43 PM CDT

A Turkish riot police officer stands in front of posters reading, McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Christians in Mosul are fleeing their homes after a spate of killings this week that left 12 Christians dead in one of the largest Christian communities in Iraq.

1,000 Christian families flee north Iraqi city: governor (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 02:58 PM CDT

Visitors gather at the Syriac Orthodox monastery of St. Matthew or Deir Matta (in Arabic), some 30 kms northeast of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in May 2008. Nearly 1,000 Christian families have fled their homes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul following the worst wave of violence against them in five years, provincial governor Duraid Kashmula said on Saturday.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Nearly 1,000 Christian families have fled their homes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul following the worst wave of violence against them in five years, provincial governor Duraid Kashmula said on Saturday.

Houses blown up as Christians flee Iraq's Mosul (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 12:57 PM CDT

Reuters - Militants blew up three empty Christian homes on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where more than 800 Christian families have fled in the past two days, a Christian member of parliament said.

French side chases Iraqi player - report (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 12:09 PM CDT

French side Grenoble have bid for Iraqi international striker Younes Mahmoud, seen here in action in 2006, his Qatari side Al-Gharafa reported on Saturday.(AFP/File/Karim Jaafar)AFP - French side Grenoble have bid for Iraqi international striker Younes Mahmoud, his Qatari side Al-Gharafa reported on Saturday.

Turkey bombs PKK targets, stresses talks with Iraq Kurds (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 08:10 AM CDT

A map locating the Turkish town where PKK rebels launched a deadly attack killing 17 soldiers earlier this month. Turkish authorities claimed to have foiled a probable suicide attack by a suspected Kurdish militant in Istanbul on Saturday as the military stepped up bombing raids on rebel hideouts in northern Iraq.(AFP/Graphic/Jfs)AFP - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in neighbouring Iraq on Saturday as the country's president said Ankara would pursue dialogue with Iraqi Kurds accused of harbouring militants in a safe haven.

Iraqi journalist killed in Kirkuk (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 05:08 AM CDT

AP - A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists' group said Saturday it was the 136th killing of a reporter since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago.

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