2008年10月25日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Top U.S. Iraq commander visits Turkey on rebels (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2008 02:52 AM CDT

U.S. General Raymond Odierno salutes during Change of Command ceremonies inside the Rotunda of the Al-Faw Palace at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq September 16, 2008. (Paul J. Richards/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, has met a senior military official in Turkey to discuss Kurdish rebels launching attacks into Turkey from northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

Top US commander in Iraq holds talks in Turkey (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 07:39 PM CDT

AP - The top U.S. commander in Iraq has held talks in Turkey on cooperation in the fight against Kurdish rebels.

Iraq's prime minister won't sign U.S. troop deal (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 05:07 PM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Fearing political division in the parliament and the country at large, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki won't sign the just-completed agreement on the status of U.S. troops in Iraq, a leading lawmaker said on Friday.

Iraqis have money but lack know-how in spending it (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 03:55 PM CDT

In this photo provided by United States Agency for International Development, Shetha Nasser, right, a 46-year-old engineer at the Water Resources Ministry, discusses a problem with a fellow student during a class in Baghdad, Iraq, about decision-making on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. The class is run by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Tatweer project as part of efforts to train Iraqi civil servants to improve Iraq's ability to spend its oil riches amid criticism U.S. taxpayers are shouldering an unfair burden. (AP Photo/US AID)AP - Iraq's government has an unusual money problem as much of the world grapples with a credit crunch — it can't spend its oil riches fast enough.

UN aids Iraqi Christians chased from Mosul (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 03:28 PM CDT

A U.S. Army honor guard hold 14 flags for a group burial at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. The group burial was for 14 soldiers who were killed Aug. 22, 2007, when their helicopter crashed in Multaka, northern Iraq. Killed were four soldiers assigned to the 4th Squadron, 6th U.S. Air Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash.: Army Capt. Corry P. Tyler, 29; Army Chief Warrant Officer Paul J. Flynn, 28, Whitsett, N.C.; Army Sgt. Matthew L. Tallman, 30, Groveland, Calif.; Army Spc. Rickey L. Bell, 21, Caruthersville, Mo. Also killed were ten soldiers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: Army Capt. Derek A. Dobogai, 26, Fond du Lac, Wis.; Army Staff Sgt. Jason L. Paton, 25, Poway, Calif.; Army Sgt. Garrett I. McLead, 23, Rockport, Texas; Army Cpl. Jeremy P. Bouffard, 21, Middlefield, Mass.; Army Cpl. Phillip J. Brodnick, 25, New Lenox, Ill.; Army Cpl. Joshua S. Harmon, 20, Ohio; Army Cpl. Nathan C. Hubbard, 21, Clovis, Calif.; Army Spc. Michael A. Hook, 25, Altoona, Pa.; Army Spc. Jessy G. Pollard, 22, Springfield, Mo.; Army Spc. Tyler R. Seideman, 20, Lincoln, Ark. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)AP - The U.N. refugee agency said Friday that it was rushing aid to thousands of Christians who fled a northern Iraqi city, while a prominent Shiite cleric appealed for unity as lawmakers consider a U.S.-Iraq security deal.

Al-Qaida in Iraq focused on outside attacks (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 02:16 PM CDT

The scene of an attack on the terminal building at Glasgow Airport Glasgow Scotland July 1, 2007. (Chris McNulty/Daily Mail/Pool/Reuters)AP - Al-Qaida in Iraq's leader says in a new audiotape that his group is focused on attacks outside Iraq and seems to claim responsibility for the June 2007 attack on Glasgow International Airport.

Iraqi Christians flee Mosul after death threats: U.N. (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 08:26 AM CDT

Displaced Christian residents carry relief goods distributed by the Red Crescent organization in a church in Baghdad October 23, 2008. (Mohammed Ameen/Reuters)Reuters - More than half of the Christians living in Mosul have fled the northern Iraqi city in the past two weeks, some going to Syria, after receiving death threats, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.

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