2008年11月20日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

U.S. pact can pass Iraqi parliament: minister (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2008 03:25 AM CST

Reuters - A pact allowing U.S. troops to stay in Iraq for three more years has a chance of being approved by parliament despite some heated opposition, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Thursday.

Iraq FM: US-Iraqi security pact can still pass (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2008 03:13 AM CST

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in October 2008. The Bush administration turned to Congress Wednesday to mount a defense of a landmark agreement with Iraq that calls for the withdrawal of all US forces by the end of 2011.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Logan Mock-Bunting)AP - Iraq's foreign minister says the parliament can still approve a security pact with the United States despite scuffles among lawmakers in Baghdad.


Dead San Diego Marine again denied Medal of Honor (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 09:52 PM CST

AP - The Department of Defense has reaffirmed its decision not to award the Medal of Honor to a Marine from San Diego who witnesses say threw himself on a grenade to save his colleagues during fierce fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,200 (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in October 2008. The Bush administration turned to Congress Wednesday to mount a defense of a landmark agreement with Iraq that calls for the withdrawal of all US forces by the end of 2011.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Logan Mock-Bunting)AP - As of Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, at least 4,200 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


Defense officials highly critical of U.S.-Iraq troop accord (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 06:43 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for the next three years than the U.S. had ever contemplated.

Gates, Rice defend US-Iraq security agreement (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 04:40 PM CST

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in October 2008. The Bush administration turned to Congress Wednesday to mount a defense of a landmark agreement with Iraq that calls for the withdrawal of all US forces by the end of 2011.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Logan Mock-Bunting)AP - The security agreement between U.S. and Iraq provides both the time and authority needed for American troops to train Iraqi forces and pursue terrorists, senior Bush administration officials said Wednesday.


Lawmaker accuses Bush of secrecy over Iraq deal (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 04:38 PM CST

Reuters - The U.S. government is refusing to make public the security pact it has signed with Iraq, even though it has already been published in full in an Iraqi newspaper, a congressional hearing was told on Wednesday.

Iraqis doubt security agreement will end U.S. presence (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 03:21 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iraqi and American leaders say that a new security pact will have all U.S. forces and military contractors out of Iraq by 2012, but 14th Ramadan Street is skeptical.

US confident of Iraq troops accord (AFP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 01:55 PM CST

In this handout from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry (IFM) on November 17, 2008, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, (3rd L), and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, (4th R), sign a security pact in Baghdad. The United States on Wednesday expressed confidence that Iraqi lawmakers will approve a controversial military pact that allows US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.(AFP/HO IFM/File/Ho)AFP - The Bush administration turned to Congress Wednesday to mount a defense of a landmark agreement with Iraq that calls for the withdrawal of all US forces by the end of 2011.


White House confident Iraq accord will pass (AFP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 12:50 PM CST

In this handout from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry (IFM) on November 17, 2008, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, (3rd L), and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, (4th R), sign a security pact in Baghdad. The United States on Wednesday expressed confidence that Iraqi lawmakers will approve a controversial military pact that allows US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.(AFP/HO IFM/File/Ho)AFP - The United States on Wednesday expressed confidence that Iraqi lawmakers will approve a controversial military pact that allows US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.


Hardline Iraqi MPs shout down US pact in parliament (AFP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 09:55 AM CST

Members of the Shiite Muslim al-Fadel Block announce their abstention from a vote on the US-Iraqi accord prior to a parliamentary debate in Baghdad.(AFP/Salam Faraj)AFP - Lawmakers loyal to firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr shouted down the Iraqi parliament's second reading on Wednesday of a military pact allowing US troops to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.


Iraqi forces can control restive north: US general (AFP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 08:29 AM CST

US General Tony Thomas, commander of the Multi-National Forces North, speaks during an interview with AFP at his headquarters in the northern city of Mosul, 370 kms from Baghdad, on November 18, 2008. Iraqi forces are ready to take security control of the north of the war-torn country, one of the last bastions of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Thomas told AFP.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi forces are ready to take security control of the north of the war-torn country, one of the last bastions of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military General Tony Thomas told AFP.


Iraq discovers remains of 150 Kurds in south Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 08:08 AM CST

Iraqi policemen pray near the coffin with remains found in a mass grave in Najaf, south of Baghdad, November 19, 2008. (Ali Abu Shish/Reuters)Reuters - Iraqi officials flew the remains of 150 Kurds found in a mass grave home to Kurdistan on Wednesday, after a moving ceremony that paid tribute to victims of repression under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.


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