2008年10月19日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi police: roadside bomb kills 2 in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 03:07 AM CDT

One of the entrance signs to Fort Carson is seen in the Feb. 2007 photo. Fort Carson soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq are suspects in at least five slayings, and officials want to know why. Commander Maj. Gen. Mark Graham announced Friday Oct. 17, 2008 a task force will examine any commonalities in the five killings, all committed in Colorado, allegedly by soldiers from the post's 4th Brigade Combat Team in the past 14 months. A sixth BCT soldier faces an attempted murder charge. (AP Photo)AP - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol killed two people and wounded 10 Sunday in southeastern Baghdad, authorities said.


11 bodies found in Iraq mass grave (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 03:24 PM CDT

An Iraqi man mourns over one of the bodies found in mass grave in Al-Jillam district 25 kms east of Samarra. Iraqi and US forces have found a mass grave containing 11 decomposed bodies of men believed kidnapped by Al-Qaeda militants last year, officials told AFP on Saturday.(AFP)AFP - Iraqi and US forces have found a mass grave containing 11 decomposed bodies of men believed kidnapped by Al-Qaeda militants last year, officials told AFP on Saturday.


Thousands rally in Baghdad against proposed U.S-Iraq troop deal (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 01:11 PM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Tens of thousands of Iraqis rallied in the streets of Baghdad Saturday against a proposed American-Iraqi deal that would allow U.S. troops to stay in the country for three more years.

Iraqis divided over security pact with US (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 12:39 PM CDT

AP - Iraqis are divided over a proposed security pact with the United States. The agreement specifies the departure of all American troops by 2012 and gives Iraqi authorities limited legal jurisdiction over U.S. troops when they are off base and off duty.

Iraq must decide on US military pact: Zebari (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 11:21 AM CDT

US soldiers patrol in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says it is time for the nation's politicians to make up their minds on a draft agreement with Washington on the future of US troops in the country.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Saturday it was time for the leaders of Iraq and the United States to make up their minds on a draft agreement on the future of US troops in the country.


Iraq police kill suspected woman suicide bomber (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 09:10 AM CDT

Iraqi army soldiers patrol an area in the al-Odaim desert just north of Baghdad, on October. Iraqi policemen have shot dead a woman on suspicion of preparing a suicide attack on a checkpoint in the Sunni central town of Dhuluiyah, a security official has told AFP.(AFP/File/null)AFP - Iraqi policemen shot dead a woman on Saturday on suspicion of preparing a suicide attack on a checkpoint in the Sunni central town of Dhuluiyah, a security official told AFP.


Bahrain foreign minister in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2008 05:14 AM CDT

Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad al-Khalifa, seen here in 2006, is visiting Iraq in a fresh sign of improving ties between Baghdad and the Gulf's Sunni Arab countries, state television has reported.(AFP/Amro Maraghi)AFP - Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad al-Khalifa was in Iraq on Saturday in a fresh sign of improving ties between Baghdad and the Gulf's Sunni Arab countries, state television reported.


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