2008年10月14日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi Kurd chief to meet Turkish envoys on rebel crisis (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:47 AM CDT

Massud Barzani, president of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, seen here in Arbil earlier this month, is to hold talks with Turkish officials on the crisis over Kurdish rebels, an official has said.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Massud Barzani, president of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, will hold talks on Tuesday with Turkish officials on the crisis over Kurdish rebels, an official said.

US condemns attacks on Iraq's Christians (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 02:32 AM CDT

An Iraqi security guard stands in front of the Syrian Catholic church in Baghdad. The United States on Tuesday condemned attacks on Iraqis, including those against Christians in the northern city of Mosul, where a surge in violence against the community has provoked a mass exodus.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - The United States on Tuesday condemned attacks on Iraqis, including those against Christians in the northern city of Mosul, where a surge in violence against the community has provoked a mass exodus.

Army blocks soldier from bringing puppy back (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 02:08 AM CDT

In this photo provided by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Army Sgt. Gwen Beberg of Minneapolis, is seen with Rachet, a puppy she and another solider rescued from a burning trash pile in Iraq. Defense Department rules prohibit soldiers in the U.S. Central Command from adopting pets. Now almost 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let Beberg bring the puppy home. (AP Photo/SPCA)AP - More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let an Iraqi puppy come home with a Minnesota soldier, who fears that "Ratchet" could be killed if left behind.

Economy, financial crisis crowd out other issues (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 02:07 AM CDT

In this July 21, 2008, file photo released by the U.S. Army, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, and the then-top U.S. military commander in Iraq, David Petraeus, talk as they take a helicopter ride over Baghdad. It wasn't long ago that illegal immigration was supposed to be a top issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Terrorism and the Iraq war, which drove the 2004 contest between President Bush and Democrat John Kerry, were expected to be an important focus again this time. (AP Photo/Ssg. Lorie Jewell, HO)AP - It wasn't long ago that illegal immigration was supposed to be a top issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Terrorism and the Iraq war, which drove the 2004 contest between President Bush and Democrat John Kerry, were expected to be important again this time.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,182 (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 07:42 PM CDT

An Iraqi security guard stands in front of the Syrian Catholic church in Baghdad. The United States on Tuesday condemned attacks on Iraqis, including those against Christians in the northern city of Mosul, where a surge in violence against the community has provoked a mass exodus.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AP - As of Monday, Oct. 13, 2008, at least 4,182 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 strives to move beyond body count (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 07:06 PM CDT

Vendors chat while holding their goods on a street in Baghdad October 12, 2008. (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)Reuters - In five years of war, Iraq has been hostage to a parade of grim statistics: car bombs, corpses, cholera and refugees fleeing rampant bloodshed.

Iraqi VP predicts security accord with U.S. unlikely this year (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 06:12 PM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Time's running out for reaching a security agreement with the U.S., and an accord is unlikely before the end of this year, Iraq's Sunni Muslim vice president said Monday.

Iraqi minister meets oil companies in London (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 05:38 PM CDT

Iraqi Minister of Oil Hussein al-Shahristani is interviewed at his office at Baghdad's oil ministry in September 2008. Al-Shahristani met officials from 35 oil companies in London Monday to lay out details of its first round of bidding for new contracts since the 2003 US-led invasion.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq's Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani met officials from 35 oil companies in London Monday to lay out details of its first round of bidding for new contracts since the 2003 US-led invasion.

Iraqis are being attacked and killed for returning to their homes (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 04:33 PM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Haj Ali's family had been home for less than a month when a makeshift bomb blew off part of his garage. The message was clear: Go back to wherever you came from.

U.S. troops now serve as welcome wagon in Baghdad (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:52 PM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — It was dark, just after 8 p.m. in Ghazaliyah, a sprawling neighborhood in west Baghdad, and a platoon of American soldiers was out knocking on doors.

UN concerned as flight of Iraq Christians continues (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 10:26 AM CDT

An Iraqi policeman lights candles in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary outside a church in Baghdad's Al-Karrada neighbourhood. The United Nations has voiced its concern after more Christian families fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - More Christian families have quit their homes in Mosul, a local official said on Monday, as the United Nations voiced concern at the community's plight in the northern Iraqi city.

US commander says Iran trying to bribe Iraqis (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 09:47 AM CDT

General Ray Odierno, who commands US forces in Iraq, seen here, has accused Iran of trying to bribe Iraqi lawmakers in the hope of undermining an agreement that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq after the end of this year, The Washington Post has reported.(AFP/POOL/File/Dusan Vranic)AFP - General Ray Odierno, who commands US forces in Iraq, has accused Iran of trying to bribe Iraqi lawmakers in the hope of undermining an agreement that would allow US troops to remain in Iraq after the end of this year, The Washington Post reported Monday.

US troops seize six suspected rebels in Mosul (AFP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 06:44 AM CDT

In this handout photograph made available by the US military, a US soldier and his interpreter look at a map with an Iraqi soldier in a forest near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The US military says it has detained six suspected insurgents in the northern city of Mosul, the scene of some of the worst violence against Christians in five years.(AFP/HO/File/Sarah de Boise)AFP - The US military said on Monday it had detained six suspected insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the scene of some of the worst violence against Christians in five years.

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