2008年9月14日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Maliki orders probe into murder of Iraqi TV crew (AFP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 03:20 AM CDT

Iraqis watch the Al-Sharqiya television station after four of the station's employees were kidnapped by gunmen and later killed in northern Iraq on September 13. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered a probe into the brutal kidnapping and killing of a four-member team from Al-Sharqiya television in the northern city of Mosul.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered a probe into the brutal kidnapping and killing of a four-member team from Al-Sharqiya television in the northern city of Mosul.

Petraeus to leave behind a very different Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 02:49 AM CDT

Commander in Iraq General David Petraeus speaks during a change in command ceremony of Iraq's Multi-National Security Transition Command and the NATO training mission in Baghdad July 3, 2008. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)Reuters - When General David Petraeus took over as U.S. military commander in Iraq in February 2007, the country was on the brink of all-out civil war.

Iraq: bomb kills 4 US-backed, Sunni fighters (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 02:37 AM CDT

Lieutenant-General Raymond Odierno (L) shakes hands with General David Petraeus as they prepare to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in this May 22, 2008 file photo. Petraeus will take charge of the U.S. Central Command, the headquarters that oversees operations in a swathe of countries across the Middle East and beyond, including Afghanistan; handing over command of U.S. Forces in Iraq to his deputy Lieutenant-General Raymond Odierno on September 16, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Theiler/Files (UNITED STATES)AP - Iraqi officials say a bomb has killed the leader of a U.S.-backed, Sunni armed group in a western district of Baghdad.

Obama camp suggests lies over Palin visit to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 02:16 AM CDT

Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, talks about her running mate, Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at the Dena'INA Civic and Convention Center Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Matt Hage)AP - The question of whether Sarah Palin has ever been to Iraq pushed Obama aides Saturday to accuse the McCain campaign of outright lies, distortions and distractions to the American people.

Going Home in Baghdad (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 01:15 AM CDT

Time.com - Almost one in five Iraqis was displaced by the war. Now they're starting to trickle home. But the fear remains

U.S. in push for foreign arms deals: report (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 11:36 PM CDT

Reuters - The Bush administration is pushing through a wide range of foreign weapons deals in a bid to rearm Iraq and Afghanistan and contain North Korea and Iran, The New York Times reported.

Iraq close to security agreement with US: foreign minister (AFP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 03:45 PM CDT

The United States and Iraq are nearing an accord which could pave the way for large-scale US troop withdrawals by 2011, Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari, seen here in August 2008, said Saturday.(AFP/POOL/File/Ali Abbas)AFP - The United States and Iraq are nearing an accord which could pave the way for large-scale US troop withdrawals by 2011, Iraq's foreign minister said Saturday.

Gunmen kill 4 Iraqi TV staff in Mosul (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 01:31 PM CDT

Iraq's parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani speaks during a news conference in Baghdad February 11, 2007. (Sabah Arar/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Gunmen kidnapped and shot dead three Iraqi journalists from Iraq's Sharqiya TV station along with their driver in the volatile northern city of Mosul on Saturday, the station and police said.

Gunmen slaughter Iraqi TV crew (AFP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 10:07 AM CDT

Iraqis watch a report on the Al-Sharqiyah channel after four of their employees were kidnapped and killed by gunmen in northern Iraq. The television crew were filming a popular Ramadan programme. The attack came just hours after 10 people were slain in two separate bombings in Iraq.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Gunmen kidnapped and killed on Saturday a four-member Iraqi television crew filming a popular Ramadan programme, just hours after 10 people were slain in two separate bombings in the country.

Iraq bombings kill at least 8 (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 06:19 AM CDT

Lieutenant-General Raymond Odierno (L) shakes hands with General David Petraeus as they prepare to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in this May 22, 2008 file photo. Petraeus will take charge of the U.S. Central Command, the headquarters that oversees operations in a swathe of countries across the Middle East and beyond, including Afghanistan; handing over command of U.S. Forces in Iraq to his deputy Lieutenant-General Raymond Odierno on September 16, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Theiler/Files (UNITED STATES)Reuters - Two bombings in Iraq killed at least eight people on Saturday, one targeting police in Baghdad and another against Kurdish forces just outside the disputed town of Khanaqin, police said.

Six Iraqi peshmerga killed by bomb: Kurdish official (AFP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2008 05:17 AM CDT

Kurdish peshmerga at a graduation ceremony in Faysh Khabur, northern Iraq. Six peshmerga were killed when a roadside bomb targeted a patrol in Diyal province.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - A roadside bomb attack targeted a patrol of Kurdish peshmerga forces northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, killing six of them including a top commander, an Iraqi Kurdish official told AFP.

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