2008年10月20日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

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

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 03:26 AM CDT

Iraqi Army Special Forces break into a house after receiving a tip on possible presence of weapons in the Al-Taliaa village near Diwaniyah, 150 km (95 miles) south of Baghdad. Iraq's top leaders were meeting late Sunday to review a controversial security pact with the US that will determine American troop deployments beyond this year, a parliamentary official told AFP.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)AP - A roadside bomb struck a double-decker bus in Baghdad, killing two people and wounding seven others, Iraqi authorities said Monday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,185 (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 05:39 PM CDT

Iraqi policemen take up position during a raid south of the city of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, October 19, 2008. Picture taken October 19, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ)AP - As of Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, at least 4,185 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Top Iraqi leaders discuss US-Iraq security pact (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 03:43 PM CDT

Iraqi Army Special Forces search a house after receiving a tip on possible presence of weapons in the Al-Taliaa village near Diwaniyah, 150 km (95 miles) south of Baghdad. Iraq's top leaders were meeting late Sunday to review a controversial security pact with the US that will determine American troop deployments beyond this year, a parliamentary official told AFP.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Iraq's top leaders met late Sunday to review a controversial security pact with the US that will determine American troop deployments beyond this year, a parliamentary official told AFP.

Iraqis reach no decision on troops pact with U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 03:40 PM CDT

An Iraqi woman looks at U.S soldiers as they patrol Baquba, in Diyala province some 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad October 19, 2008. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)Reuters - Iraqi political leaders meeting on Sunday took no decision to approve a pact allowing U.S. troops to stay for three years, and many expressed reservations about it, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.

Iraqi puppy adopted by soldier en route to US (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 02:41 PM CDT

Mike Bell a member of a private security firm leads the Iraqi dog called Ratchet, as they wait at the Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, on Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, ready to be flown to America after Ratchet was adopted by an American soldier. An animal rescue group flew into Baghdad Sunday to pick up the Iraqi puppy Ratchet adopted by U.S. soldier Army Spc. Gwen Beberg of Minneapolis, in a case that has highlighted U.S. military rules barring troops on duty from caring for pets, but Beberg complained that she couldn't take the animal home, and now it seems that she will be reunited with Ratchet.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - Ratchet the Iraqi puppy finally had his day.

Iraq's Christians "sacrificial lambs" as attacks mount (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 12:52 PM CDT

Displaced Christian children do their homework in a room in al-Saida monastery in Al-Qosh village, 45 km (28 miles) north of Mosul October 18, 2008. Christians have become targets of sectarian attacks. Such is the plight of some 1,500 Christian families who in the past two weeks have fled homes in Iraq's ethnically mixed, and stubbornly violent, city of Mosul. Picture taken October 18, 2008. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)Reuters - A Christian family huddles in an austere room in a monastery in northern Iraq, their belongings piled up around them. It is now home, since members of their religious minority became targets of sectarian attacks.

Vt. auditor's Iraq service hampers re-election bid (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 12:38 PM CDT

AP - There's only one thing missing from Thomas Salmon's re-election campaign — Thomas Salmon.

Iraqi forces kill Qaeda militant (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 11:41 AM CDT

Iraqi defence ministry spokesman Major General Mohammed al-Askari speaks during a press conference in Baghdad in June 2008. Iraqi security forces on Sunday killed a Saudi Arabian who was a fighter belonging to the Al-Qaeda in Iraq group, al-Askari told AFP.(AFP/POOL/File/Mohammed Ameen)AFP - Iraqi security forces on Sunday killed a Saudi Arabian who was a fighter belonging to the Al-Qaeda in Iraq group, defence ministry spokesman Major General Mohammed al-Askari told AFP.

Iraqi official: Turkey bombs rebels across border (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 09:47 AM CDT

AP - An Iraqi Kurdish official says Turkish warplanes have again bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts across the border in northern Iraq.

Iraq arrests three in murder of anti-US Shiite MP (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 09:07 AM CDT

Relatives and friends carry the coffin of anti-US Iraqi Shiite MP Saleh al-Ogayly who was assassinated in Baghdad last week. Iraqi authorities have arrested three electricity company employees suspected of involvement in the assassination, the interior ministry has said.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - Iraqi authorities have arrested three electricity company employees suspected of involvement in the assassination of an anti-US Iraqi Shiite lawmaker, the interior ministry said on Sunday.

U.S. pact hits snag as Iraq Shi'ites seek changes (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 08:46 AM CDT

Demonstrators wave Iraqi national flags during a protest march in Baghdad's Sadr City October 18, 2008. Thousands of followers of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets on Saturday in a demonstration against a pact that would allow U.S. forces to stay in Iraq for three more years. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters)Reuters - A landmark pact to allow U.S. troops to stay in Iraq until 2011 hit its first major political snag on Sunday, with Iraq's ruling Shi'ite parties calling for changes just days after a "final draft" was unveiled.

Iraq, Britain to negotiate security deal: Maliki (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 06:39 AM CDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen here in April, has said Baghdad and London will begin negotiating a security deal to decide the future of British forces in the country beyond 2008.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday that Baghdad and London would begin negotiating a security deal to decide the future of British forces in the country beyond 2008.

Two killed in Baghdad bombings (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 06:01 AM CDT

A cab driver fills up his taxi at a petrol station in Baghdad earlier this year. Two roadside bombs in southern Baghdad have killed at least two people and wounded 17, a security official with the interior ministry has said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Two roadside bombs in southern Baghdad killed at least two people and wounded 17 on Sunday, a security official with the interior ministry said.

Iraq, Britain to negotiate security deal: PM (AFP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 05:20 AM CDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen here in April, has said Baghdad and London will begin negotiating a security deal to decide the future of British forces in the country beyond 2008.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday that Baghdad and London would begin negotiating a security deal to decide the future of British forces in the country beyond 2008.

McCain evolved from reluctant warrior to interventionist (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Oct 2008 05:00 AM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain fixed his sights on Saddam Hussein long before President Bush sent the U.S. military to oust the Iraqi dictator in March 2003.

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