2008年12月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq reporter jailed for homosexuality story freed (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 03:34 AM CST

A British soldier looks at a boy pretending to be a soldier holding a weapon during a patrol in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad in this November 25, 2008 file photo. For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqis could be seeing election candidates kissing babies and canvassing neighbours when a new polling system comes into force in January 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)AP - An international media watchdog says a freelance journalist imprisoned in northern Iraq for writing about homosexuality has been pardoned and released.

Britain says most troops will leave Iraq by June (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 03:27 AM CST

AP - British troops will begin withdrawing from Iraq in March and will mostly be gone by June, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.

Britain could begin Iraq pullout in March (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 02:52 AM CST

A British soldier looks at a boy pretending to be a soldier holding a weapon during a patrol in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad in this November 25, 2008 file photo. For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqis could be seeing election candidates kissing babies and canvassing neighbours when a new polling system comes into force in January 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - Britain could start withdrawing most of its remaining 4,100 troops from Iraq in March because "significant progress" has been made in improving security, the government said on Wednesday.

Tribal power stokes fears in fractured Iraqi province (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 01:12 AM CST

An Iraqi soldier frisks a man on a deserted street in the city of Baquba, in January. Over the past two years local tribes across Iraq have allied with US and Iraq forces to drive out Al-Qaeda, largely ending the sectarian killing spree that seized the country in the years after the 2003 US-led invasion.(AFP/null)AFP - In 2007 the main road through the Iraqi town of Al-Muqdadiyah was the frontier between Sunnis and Shiites locked in a bloody tit-for-tat of kidnappings, bombings, and the torching of mosques.

British troops out of Iraq by June: media reports (AFP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 10:53 PM CST

File photo shows British soldiers from the Scots Guards resting after a day of patrols in the area surrounding Basra. The British government is preparing to withdraw all troops from Iraq by next June, newspaper reports have said.(AFP/File/Lalage Snow)AFP - The British government is preparing to withdraw all troops from Iraq by next June, newspaper reports here said Wednesday.

Following Obama, black Iraqis run for office (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 07:18 PM CST

African-Iraqi men dance after their group 'Free Iraqi Movement' was approved as a political party to run in the coming local elections in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad December 6, 2008. Inspired by Barack Obama's election in the United States, some black Iraqis plan to run in a forthcoming election, to end what they call centuries of discrimination because of their slave ancestry. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - Barack Obama's election in the United States has already had an impact in Iraq, inspiring some black Iraqis to run in a forthcoming election in the hope of ending what they call centuries of discrimination.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 06:55 PM CST

A British soldier looks at a boy pretending to be a soldier holding a weapon during a patrol in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad in this November 25, 2008 file photo. For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqis could be seeing election candidates kissing babies and canvassing neighbours when a new polling system comes into force in January 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)AP - As of Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Official: Iraq war was both intel, policy failure (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 06:34 PM CST

AP - Gently admonishing President George W. Bush, the nation's newly retired chief intelligence analyst on Tuesday suggested that the Iraq war was as much the failure of policymakers as it was the flawed intelligence on which they relied.

Bush greets 2 Marines, gives them kisses (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 04:43 PM CST

President George W. Bush, center, kisses Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Marc E. Olson, right, of Coal City, Ill., after talking to Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Patrick Paul Pittman Jr., left, of Savannah, Ga., after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, after returning from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Olson and Pittman were injured when a suicide bomber attacked their entry control point in Ramadi, Iraq. The two were serving with Company A, 2nd Amphibious Assault Battalion attached with the 2nd Batallion, 9th Marines. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - President Bush stopped on the White House South Lawn to pose for a photograph with two Marines who served in Iraq — and planted a kiss on the head of each.

Official calls for economic cooperation (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 04:04 PM CST

AP - Reaching out to Iran and other neighbors, a top Iraqi official called Tuesday for the formation of an economic security union designed to share water, energy and other resources, and mediate disputes among its members.

With violence down, Iraqis travel for big religious holiday (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 03:53 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — For the past few years, Nawal Abdulla Hadi of Baghdad couldn't travel to see her family for the Eid al Adha, giving up the traditional reunion during the annual Muslim holiday because the roads weren't safe.

Petraeus favours US troop surge in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 02:47 PM CST

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) shakes hands with General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, during their meeting at Chigi palace in Rome. Petraeus indicated Tuesday that he has recommended a major troop surge in Afghanistan.(AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)AFP - General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia and credited with boosting security in Iraq, said Tuesday that he has recommended a major troop surge in Afghanistan.

Iraq outlines regional plan for security, development (AFP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 02:36 PM CST

Iraq security guards search people as they enter the Zawra Park in central Baghdad as the nation celebrates the Eid al-Adha marking the end of the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Iraq's government on Tuesday unveiled plans for a new regional economic and security partnership, in a speech delivered by Baghdad's official spokesman while visiting Washington.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq on Tuesday outlined plans for a new regional economic and security partnership to promote peace and prosperity, in a speech delivered by its official spokesman during a visit to Washington.

Iraqis Welcome Blackwater Indictments (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 02:05 PM CST

Time.com - Security contractors are widely feared in Iraq, but their role may expand as the U.S. draws down

Iraq violence at 5-1/2 year low, Petraeus says (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 01:43 PM CST

U.S. General David Petraeus, the commander overseeing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, arrives to attend a conference in Rome December 9, 2008. (Tony Gentile/Reuters)Reuters - Violence in Iraq has in the past few weeks fallen to its lowest level since summer 2003 and security gains, while still at risk of reversal, are less fragile than before, General David Petraeus said on Tuesday.

Hajj pilgrims not hopeful of Obama (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 01:34 PM CST

This aerial image made from a helicopter shows tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims heading to throw pebbles at a stone pillar representing the devil, during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - After pelting a symbol of the devil with stones, the Iraqi pilgrim knelt and prayed that one day soon all sorts of devils will be removed from his homeland — among them, that American forces will soon leave.

Iraq arrests 10 Qaeda suspects for Fallujah bombings (AFP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 10:36 AM CST

Iraqis ride past a collapsed building in Fallujah in July 2008. Ten suspected Al-Qaeda members have been arrested on charges of organising last week's deadly truck bombings in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Ten suspected Al-Qaeda members have been arrested on charges of organising last week's deadly truck bombings in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah, the city's police chief said on Tuesday.

Baghdad home prices soar (AFP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 06:50 AM CST

A tangle of wires feed apartments in a Baghdad neighbourhood on August 12, 2008. Property prices in the city's residential districts have soared in the past year as security has improved, and estate agents say the trend is set to continue, given a serious shortage of homes.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Property prices in Baghdad's residential districts have soared in the past year as security has improved, and estate agents say the trend is set to continue, given a serious shortage of homes.

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