2008年10月13日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq calmer but copycat kidnappings spread (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:43 AM CDT

In this photo provided by Megan von Ackermann, Kirk von Ackermann, a Department of Defense contractor is seen in this family photo, date unknown.  Five years ago, the retired Air Force intelligence officer became the first of 39 Americans to be kidnapped in Iraq. He's still missing and his wife fearing she'll never see him again.    (AP Photo)AP - Five years ago, retired Air Force intelligence officer Kirk von Ackermann became the first of 39 Americans to be kidnapped in Iraq. He's still missing, his wife fearing she'll never see him again.


Al-Maliki: British troops not necessary (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:33 AM CDT

AP - Iraq's prime minister said the 4,100 British troops in southern Iraq are no longer necessary to provide security, a newspaper reported Monday.

Car bombings in Mosul and Baghdad kill 13 (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 11:32 PM CDT

An Iraqi old man walk behind the wreckage of a car after a car bomb explosion in the predominantly Shiite Bayaa district, southwestern Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008.  The bomb exploded Sunday in a commercial street of Baghdad killing seven people and wounding nine others, police said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven other people in Baghdad.


Iraqi PM says British no longer needed for security (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 08:00 PM CDT

Iraqi children gather as British soliders patrol Khor al-Zubar village, southeast of the southern city of Basra, in September. British troops are no longer necessary for the security of Iraq and should go home, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in a newspaper interview published here Monday.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - British troops are no longer necessary for the security of Iraq and should go home, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in a newspaper interview published here Monday.


Iraq says time for British troops to go: report (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 07:31 PM CDT

British soldiers fill up the entrenchment of an Iraqi army camp with soil in Karmat Ali, northeast of Basra, 550 km (342 miles) south of Baghdad April 13, 2008. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted on Monday as saying it was time for British combat forces to leave the south of the country because they were no longer needed to maintain security and control.


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

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 07:04 PM CDT

Residents grieve as the coffin of their relative, who was killed in a bomb attack, is placed on top of a vehicle during a funeral in Baghdad October 13, 2008. A bomb planted in a parked car killed nine people and wounded 13 when it exploded in a busy commercial street in the Bayaa district of southern Baghdad on Sunday, police said.  REUTERS/Bassim Shati  (IRAQ)AP - As of Sunday, Oct. 12, 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.


Iraq pours police into Mosul to protect Christians (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 03:05 PM CDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) welcomes Yunadem Kanna -- one of only two Christian deputies in the Iraqi parliament -- ahead of talks in Baghdad. Maliki has pledged to protect Christians after a spate of killings in Mosul.(AFP/Iraq PM's Office)AFP - Iraq ordered nearly 1,000 police to patrol Christian areas of Mosul on Sunday as thousands of members of the minority group fled the worst violence against them in five years.


Insulated from global woes, Iraqi stocks soar (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 02:13 PM CDT

An Iraqi stock trader reacts in front of  Iraq's stock exchange board, in Baghdad, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. While the rest of the world is facing a financial meltdown, the Iraq stock exchange is enjoying a boom. The ISX index has soared 20 percent since September, boosted by huge growth in the hotel sector as investors grow increasingly confident about recent security gains. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - While the rest of the world is facing a financial meltdown, the Iraq Stock Exchange is booming.


Turkish air raid targets senior Kurdish rebels in Iraq: army (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 01:53 PM CDT

A PKK guerrilla fighter walks into a stone hut in a camp located along the Iraq-Iran border in the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, in 2006. Turkish warplanes bombed Sunday a Kurdish rebel hideout in northern Iraq where senior militants were believed to be, the army said.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - Turkish warplanes bombed Sunday a Kurdish rebel hideout in neighbouring Iraq where senior militants were believed to be, the army said.


Iraq to begin first oil bid round in London (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 10:25 AM CDT

AP - Iraq's oil minister will meet Monday in London with representatives of international oil companies for the first round of bidding for new contracts in the country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the minister's spokesman said.

Iraqi PM pledges to protect Christians (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 09:53 AM CDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) welcomes Yunadem Kanna -- one of only two Christian deputies in the Iraqi parliament -- ahead of talks in Baghdad. Maliki has pledged to protect Christians after a spate of killings in Mosul.(AFP/Iraq PM's Office)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pledged on Sunday to protect Christians in Iraq after a spate of killings in the northern city of Mosul sparked the exodus of thousands of members of the community.


Dirndls, oom-pah, sausages? Oktoberfest in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 09:09 AM CDT

AP - Dirndl-clad waitresses deliver frothy beers, the brass band has the oom-pah music in full drive and there are sausages on the grill.

At least 13 killed in spate of Baghdad attacks (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 07:22 AM CDT

Iraqi soldiers search a suspect for weapons and explosives at a checkpoint in Baghdad. A spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital have killed at least 13 people and wounded 24 others, including women and children.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - A spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital have killed at least 13 people and wounded 24 others, including women and children, security officials said on Sunday.


Nine killed in Baghdad market bombing (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 06:32 AM CDT

Iraqi soldiers search a suspect for weapons and explosives at a checkpoint in Baghdad. A spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital have killed at least 13 people and wounded 24 others, including women and children.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - At least nine people were killed and 13 wounded in a car bombing at a market in Baghdad, security officials said on Sunday.


Pope condemns violence against Christians in Iraq, India (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 06:28 AM CDT

An Indian Catholic touches the portrait of Sister Alphonsa during the special mass in Hyderabad. Indian Catholics celebrated as the nun is to be canonized as India's first female saint by Pope Benedict XV1.(AFP/Noah Seelam)AFP - Pope Benedict XVI condemned on Sunday violence perpetrated against Christians in India and Iraq.


Baghdad car bomb kills nine, wounds 13: police (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Oct 2008 05:39 AM CDT

Reuters - A car bomb killed nine people and wounded 13 in the Bayaa district of southern Baghdad on Sunday, police said.
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