2008年11月15日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Al-Sadr Throws Down the Gauntlet on US-Iraq Talks (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 01:05 AM CST

Time.com - The radical Shi'ite cleric threatens renewed attacks on U.S. forces if they're not entirely withdrawn. But does his militia have the power to revive a military campaign?

Iraq asks Philippines to lift ban on sending workers (AFP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 12:35 AM CST

Children at a squatter camp in Baghdad. Iraq is asking the Philippines to lift a ban on the deployment of Filipino workers there because it needs as many as 10 million foreign workers for infrastructure projects, a diplomat said(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraq is asking the Philippines to lift a ban on the deployment of Filipino workers there because it needs as many as 10 million foreign workers for infrastructure projects, a diplomat said Saturday.

Philippines will not lift ban on workers in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 10:02 PM CST

AP - The Philippines has no immediate plan to lift a ban on its citizens working in Iraq, the labor secretary said Saturday after a plea from an Iraqi diplomat for more foreign laborers to help with the war-torn country's reconstruction.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,197 (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 07:40 PM CST

Burnt vehicles are seen after a bomb attack in northern Baghdad's Shaab district November 13, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)AP - As of Friday, Nov. 14, 2008, at least 4,197 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 stabilizing, but vigilance urged before 2009 elections: UN (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 05:02 PM CST

Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Iraq, Staffan de Mistura, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad in March 2008. Mistura said Friday the situation in the embattled country is improving, but warned against overconfidence ahead of a series of elections in 2009.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - The UN special representative in Iraq said Friday the situation in the embattled country is improving, but warned against overconfidence ahead of a series of elections in 2009.

Iraqi envoy sees US remaining ally under Obama (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 04:54 PM CST

Burnt vehicles are seen after a bomb attack in northern Baghdad's Shaab district November 13, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)AP - Iraqi leaders are certain their country will retain its alliance with the United States when Barack Obama becomes president, Iraq's U.N. ambassador said Friday.

Syria heartened by Obama's plan for Iraq: envoy (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 04:52 PM CST

Reuters - Syria said on Friday it was heartened by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's plan to pull U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office since it reflects the desire of Iraq and its neighbors.

Feds draft indictment against Blackwater guards (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 03:58 PM CST

In this July 21, 2008 file photo, Blackwater Worldwide's headquarters is seen in Moyock, N.C. Federal prosecutors have drafted an indictment against six Blackwater Worldwide security guards in last year's deadly Baghdad shootings of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)AP - More than a year after Blackwater Worldwide security guards opened fire in a crowded Baghdad square, top Justice Department prosecutors are reviewing a draft indictment against six of the contractors, people close to the investigation said.

Key Shiite clerics warn Iraqi gov't about US pact (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 01:24 PM CST

Supporters of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burn symbolic American flags as they demonstrate against the proposed security pact between Iraq and the U.S. in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 14, 2008. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday renewed threats to resume attacks on U.S. forces if they don't leave Iraq, deepening the unease over a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that would allow American troops to stay for three more years.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Iraq's two most powerful Shiite clerics on Friday challenged the government's planned security pact with the United States, undercutting efforts to reach a deal before the U.N. mandate for American troops in Iraq expires Dec. 31.

Top Iraq official upbeat over US, British pull-out pacts (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 12:58 PM CST

British soldiers secure the road around Basra airport in 2007. Iraq is likely to approve a military pact with a timetable for the withdrawal of all US troops by 2011 and British troops will leave by the end of next year, Iraq's national security adviser said Friday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq is likely to approve a military pact with a timetable for the withdrawal of all US troops by 2011 and British troops will leave by the end of next year, Iraq's national security adviser said Friday.

Counting the dead gets more complicated in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 12:33 PM CST

Jassim Hatem, right, grieves as his son's coffin is taken for burial in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. Ali Jassim, 21, was one of 23 people killed in a string of bombings that rocked Baghdad for the third consecutive day on Thursday. By one count, it's been the deadliest three-day period in weeks in Baghdad with 56 people killed in bombings. But the U.S. military puts the overall death toll at about five. Counting the dead has never been an exact science in Iraq, but the discrepancies appear to be widening as the political stakes grow.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - This much is agreed — a double bombing in Baghdad struck a school bus and those responding to the first blast. But the difference in casualty figures was stark. Iraqi officials said 31 people died; the U.S. military put the death toll at five.

Iraqi prime minister now backs U.S. security accord (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 12:26 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki has informed Iraq's presidency council that he now supports a security agreement with the United States, a Shiite Muslim legislator who's close to the premier said Friday.

White House endorses text of US-Iraq military pact (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 12:07 PM CST

Iraqi Members of Parliament from the Moqtada al-Sadr block, sit outside the Iraqi parliament main entrance in Baghdad to protest the State of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Iraqi and US Governments in October 2008. The White House said on Friday the text of an accord on the future of US forces in Iraq was a AFP - The White House said on Friday the text of an accord on the future of US forces in Iraq was a "good agreement," shortly before the Baghdad cabinet was set to weigh in on the deal.

Iraq improving but al Qaeda, Iran still threats: U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 11:38 AM CST

Burnt vehicles are seen after a bomb attack in northern Baghdad's Shaab district November 13, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)Reuters - Violence in Iraq has decreased sharply but al Qaeda, Iranian-backed fighters and other militants remain a serious threat, as this week's bomb attacks showed, Washington's U.N. envoy said on Friday.

British troops out of Iraq by end of 2009: Iraqi official (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 10:01 AM CST

British soldiers secure the road around Basra airport in 2007. Iraq is likely to approve a military pact with a timetable for the withdrawal of all US troops by 2011 and British troops will leave by the end of next year, Iraq's national security adviser said Friday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - All British troops will be out of Iraq by the end of next year and a controversial Iraq-US security pact is likely to be approved by Baghdad this weekend, Iraq's national security adviser said Friday.

Iraq's top Shiite cleric to let govt decide on US pact (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 09:12 AM CST

Shiite Muslim men and clerics take part in the Friday noon prayers at the Imam Hussein mosque in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala. Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani -- revered as the highest religious authority by Iraq's Shiite majority -- will leave it to the government to decide on a controversial US military pact.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric will leave it to the government to decide on a controversial US military pact, but associates of the reclusive leader said it must respect Iraqi sovereignty.

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