2008年10月10日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Thousands of al-Sadr supporters mourn lawmaker (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:01 AM CDT

Relatives mourn for Iraqi lawmaker Saleh al-Auqaeili , loyal to anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, outside his home in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Officials say Thursday's explosion occurred as Saleh al-Auqaeili's car passed about 200 yards (meters) away from an Iraqi army checkpoint in a heavily secured area near Baghdad's main Shiite district of Sadr City. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr marched through eastern Baghdad on Friday to mourn the killing of a Sadrist lawmaker and hear a statement from the anti-U.S. cleric blaming occupation and terrorism for the loss.

Anger against US as Iraq Shiites bury slain MP (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 02:46 AM CDT

Relatives and friends of assassinated Iraqi anti-American Sadrist member of parliament Saleh al-Ogayly carry his coffin during his funeral in Baghdad. Mourners shouted anti-American slogans as gunfire gripped the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City ahead of the burial on Friday of a radical member of parliament killed in a roadside bombing.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Mourners shouted anti-American slogans as gunfire gripped the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City ahead of the burial on Friday of a radical member of parliament killed in a roadside bombing.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,180 (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:13 PM CDT

Iraqi parliament members grieve during the funeral of their slain colleague Saleh al-Ugaili in Baghdad's Sadr City October 10, 2008. Ugaili, a member of parliament from anti-American cleric Moqtada al Sadr's bloc, was killed by a bomb in Baghdad on Thursday, in an attack that some feared may herald a wave of assassinations before provincial elections. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ)AP - As of Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, at least 4,180 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Assassinations replacing car bombs in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:56 PM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — U.S. and Iraqi officials are seeing a shift in violence in Iraq from mass car bombings to assassinations using magnetic bombs, weapons with silencers and bicycle bombs.

Syrian policeman, two suspected 'terrorists' killed: TV (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:31 PM CDT

Syrian riot police in Damascus in 2007. Syrian security forces killed two suspected Iraqi AFP - Syrian security forces killed two suspected Iraqi "terrorists" and a policeman also died in clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp, private Dunia television said on Thursday.

U.S. Army says it has disrupted Iraq weapons network (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 01:56 PM CDT

Reuters - U.S.-led forces in southeastern Iraq have disrupted an arms-smuggling network blamed for distributing deadly Iranian-made roadside bombs and rockets in Iraq, a U.S. military officer said on Thursday.

Iraq may face spike in violence before elections: US general (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 10:53 AM CDT

The Iraqi flag flutters as US soldiers secure a street in Dora in southeastern Baghdad in September 2008. Recent major security improvements in Iraq risk being undermined by a fresh wave of violence ahead of provincial elections scheduled for early next year, a senior US general has said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Recent major security improvements in Iraq risk being undermined by a surge in violence ahead of provincial elections early next year, a senior US general said on Thursday.

U.S. fears Iran-backed killings ahead of Iraq polls (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 09:50 AM CDT

A U.S. soldier looks through the scope of his rifle as U.S. and Iraqi soldiers distribute posters of wanted persons to residents of Baghdad's Ghadir district, eastern Baghdad September 17, 2008. (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. forces in Iraq fear a wave of assassinations ahead of provincial elections, some carried out by militant cells trained in Iran, the U.S. general in command of the southern half of the country said on Thursday.

Sadrist MP assassinated in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 08:22 AM CDT

Iraqis wounded by a roadside bomb are rushed to a hospital in Baquba. An Iraqi Sunni militia leader working with US forces in Baquba has been killed along with two of his children and a nephew, security officials said.(AFP)AFP - A Shiite radical MP was assassinated in a roadside bomb attack on Thursday in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, his Sadrist faction said.

Blast kills US-allied Sunni militia chief in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:42 AM CDT

An Iraqi man rushes a wounded girl to a Baquba hospital after she was hurt in a roadside bomb. A Iraqi Sunni militia leader working with US forces was killed in the blast along with two of his children and a nephews.(AFP)AFP - A Iraqi Sunni militia leader working with US forces was killed in a roadside blast along with two of his children and a nephews on Thursday north of Baghdad, security officials said.

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