2008年11月1日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq, Iran to exchange remains of 1980s war dead (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 03:05 AM CDT

Iraqi troops celebrate as they pass a killed Iranian soldier on their way to the frontline during the war which raged between the two countries from 1980 to 1988. The former hostile states are to exchange the remains of soldiers killed during the conflict, an Iraqi government spokesman has said.(AFP/File)AFP - Iraq and Iran are to exchange the remains of soldiers killed during the 1980-88 war between the two countries, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.

US deaths in Iraq plunge to wartime low in October (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2008 01:00 AM CDT

U.S. Army Cpl. Sean Morton, 25, from Boston, Mass., assigned to Killer Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, patrols in Mosul, Iraq on Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - U.S. deaths in Iraq fell in October to their lowest monthly level of the war, matching the record low of 13 fatalities suffered in July. Iraqi deaths fell to their lowest monthly levels of the year. Eight of the 13 Americans died in combat, most of them in northern Iraq where al-Qaida and other Sunni insurgent groups remain active. The U.S. military suffered 25 deaths in September and 23 in August.

Iraq says to show U.S. troops pact to neighbors (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 07:43 PM CDT

U.S. soldiers listen to their commander before a mission in Baquba, in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, October 26, 2008. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)Reuters - Iraq will send delegations to neighboring countries to explain a pact with the United States allowing U.S. troops to remain on its territory for three years, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office said on Friday.

Maliki to show neighbours US-Iraq military pact (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:03 PM CDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, pictured here in May 2008, said on Friday he will submit the text of the controversial security pact with the United States to all of his country's neighbours.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday he will submit the text of the controversial security pact with the United States to all of his country's neighbours.

In Iraq, U.S. Marines Rely on Allies Like a Hatchet-Wielding Colonel to Keep the Peace (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:33 PM CDT

U.S. News & World Report - RAMADI, IRAQ--Col. Ahmed Hamid Sharqi was many things--businessman, smuggler, policeman for Saddam Hussein. Now, the U.S. marines stationed here consider him one of their greatest assets in keeping the streets of the capital of Anbar province--only recently some of the most dangerous in the world--safe.

US soldiers in Iraq focus on war in voting (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:22 PM CDT

U.S. Army Cpl. Sean Morton, 25, from Boston, Mass., left, and a comrade assigned to Killer Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, cast their votes for president at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Car bombs rather than Obama, making it home rather than McCain dominate the talk among many U.S. soldiers in Iraq's deadliest city during the final countdown to America's presidential election.

AP poll: 1 in 7 voters still persuadable (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:53 PM CDT

Voters use accessible voting machines during early voting Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008, at the King County Elections office in Renton, Wash. In-person accessible voting, on units providing audio and touch-screen ballots in English and Chinese, is available for all King County voters at the site through Saturday, Nov. 1, and on Monday, Nov. 3. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Elizabeth Johnson likes John McCain except for a couple of not-so-little things she can't ignore: She wants the Iraq war to end and she's not a fan of Sarah Palin, his running mate. Chalk her up as leaning McCain, but not solidly.

Al Qaeda militant said killed in U.S. Pakistan strike (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:41 PM CDT

A mid-level al Qaeda leader, identified as an Iraqi, was among up to 20 people killed on Friday in a U.S. missile strike in northwest Pakistan, a Pakistani intelligence official said. The intelligence official identified the al Qaeda leader as Abu Akash and said he was believed to have been Iraqi. (Graphics/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. missile strikes in northwest Pakistan killed up to 20 people on Friday, including a mid-level al Qaeda leader said to be an Iraqi, Pakistani officials said.

Iraq, Iran to swap bodies from war (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:29 PM CDT

AP - Iraq's government spokesman says Iraq and Iran have agreed to exchange bodies of soldiers killed during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

Parts of US-Iraq military pact still to be clarified: minister (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 12:30 PM CDT

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari is pictured in Baghdad on October 22, 2008. Some points in the draft security accord between Iraq and the United States still have to be clarified, Zebari said in an interview published Friday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Some points in the draft security accord between Iraq and the United States still have to be clarified, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in an interview published Friday.

Pentagon chief: Afghan war strategy lacking (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 04:10 PM CDT

AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday welcomed David Petraeus as the new chief of Central Command with responsibility for America's two wars, saying he hopes the general will help bring needed coherence to the U.S. and allied strategy in an increasingly volatile Afghanistan.

Insurgents 'blow up Baghdad water pipeline' (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 10:01 AM CDT

A welder fixes a metal patch on a sabotaged water pipeline in Baghdad, August 2003. Insurgents have blown up a water pipeline in Baghdad's Sunni bastion of Adhamiyah, disrupting supply of potable water to hundreds of thousands of residents, the US military said.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - Insurgents have blown up a water pipeline in Baghdad's Sunni bastion of Adhamiyah, disrupting supply of potable water to hundreds of thousands of residents, the US military said Friday.

Iraqi forces arrest 220 suspects in al Qaeda raid (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 09:51 AM CDT

Iraqi troops celebrate as they pass a killed Iranian soldier on their way to the frontline during the war which raged between the two countries from 1980 to 1988. The former hostile states are to exchange the remains of soldiers killed during the conflict, an Iraqi government spokesman has said.(AFP/File)Reuters - Iraqi forces hunting al Qaeda members arrested 220 people in a raid in western Anbar province, a former insurgent stronghold, the province's police chief and the U.S. military said Friday.

Iraqi Christians slowly returning home to Mosul (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 09:45 AM CDT

Iraqi troops celebrate as they pass a killed Iranian soldier on their way to the frontline during the war which raged between the two countries from 1980 to 1988. The former hostile states are to exchange the remains of soldiers killed during the conflict, an Iraqi government spokesman has said.(AFP/File)AP - Iraqi Christians have started to trickle home to the restive city of Mosul in recent days as attacks against them have tapered off, authorities said Friday.

US says 39 Iranian-funded 'criminals' arrested in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 08:37 AM CDT

US and Iraqi soldiers on patrol in Baghdad, October 19. The US military says it arrested 39 Iranian-sponsored AFP - The US military said on Friday it had arrested 39 Iranian-sponsored "criminals" in Iraq this month and had seized some 500,000 dollars meant to fund militancy in the war-wracked country.

Iraq plans to cut 2009 budget by $13 billion (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:41 AM CDT

Iraqi troops celebrate as they pass a killed Iranian soldier on their way to the frontline during the war which raged between the two countries from 1980 to 1988. The former hostile states are to exchange the remains of soldiers killed during the conflict, an Iraqi government spokesman has said.(AFP/File)AP - Iraq plans to cut its 2009 draft budget to $67 billion in light of falling world oil prices, finance ministry officials said.

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