2008年12月11日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US captures 6 in raids against al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 02:55 AM CST

A U.S Army soldier of Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, right, and an Iraqi army soldier secure an area during a joint patrol, in Hay al Tinek neighborhood, northwestern Mosul, 360 kilometers, 225 miles, northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2008. Strategically set, the country's third largest city, fixing embattled Mosul is not only vital in itself but a test of whether the Baghdad government can successfully grapple with potentially explosive forces beneath a still fragile stability achieved elsewhere in Iraq. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - The U.S. military says it has captured six people during raids against al-Qaida in Iraq networks around Baghdad and Mosul.

Maliki's tenure on ice as rift with Kurds widens (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition of support is fraying. The Kurds, his chief Iraqi ally, are increasingly at odds with the Shiite premier over issues of power, oil, the military, and Kirkuk. Mr. Maliki's other main sponsor – the Bush administration – will also soon disappear.

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

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 07:19 PM CST

US President George W. Bush speaks on his administration's defense policies at Eisenhower Hall at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on December 9, 2008. Global warming rivals the Iraq War as the policy for which George W. Bush has been most savaged, with critics accusing him of braking or even sabotaging efforts to tackle climate change.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AP - As of Wednesday, Dec. 10, 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.

A young life changed forever by Iraq's war (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 04:36 PM CST

Three-year-old Shams is held by her grandmother at their home in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Sham's young life changed on Nov, 23, 2006 when a car bomb exploded near her father's pickup as he was driving his family. The blast left Shams blind and killed her mother. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - She was a beautiful, round-faced little girl with large, coal-black eyes and an instant smile. Two years later, the 3-year-old is blind and scarred, her mother is dead and her father's new wife can't cope with caring for her.

Prices for sacrificial lambs skyrocket as Iraqis honor dead (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 04:17 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The sheep markets looked different this year: They were packed with customers buying animals to sacrifice in memory of recently lost relatives, but many people went home empty-handed due to the enormous demand and steeply rising prices.

NY soldier denies guilt after 'fragging' acquittal (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 12:37 PM CST

AP - A New York National Guard soldier acquitted of murder in the deaths of two superiors in Iraq says he expected a guilty verdict despite being "very, very innocent."

Blackwater guards should die: dead Iraqi's family (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 12:14 PM CST

This photograph taken in 2006 shows members of the US private security company Blackwater aboard a helicopter in Baghdad. The family of an Iraqi man shot dead with 13 other civilians by guards from the private US security firm Blackwater in 2007 called on Wednesday for the death penalty against five who have been charged.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - The family of an Iraqi man shot dead with 13 other civilians by guards from the private US security firm Blackwater in 2007 called on Wednesday for the death penalty against five who have been charged.

U.S. troops start to relax as Iraq security improves (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 10:37 AM CST

Iraqi children grab free toys during the Eid al-Adha Muslim festival in southern Baghdad's Doura district December 10, 2008. (Erik de Castro/Reuters)Reuters - A few months ago, Lieutenant Greg Bassett and other U.S. soldiers would move through Abu Dsheer in a leapfrog pattern, half of them down in the dirt, rifles at the ready, protecting the rest as they ran.

Despite fury, US advanced on climate change: US delegate (AFP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 08:55 AM CST

Paula Dobriansky, US Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs looks on at an international conference hall in Makuhari, suburban Tokyo in March 2008. Global warming rivals the Iraq War as the policy for which George W. Bush has been most savaged, with critics accusing him of braking or even sabotaging efforts to tackle climate change.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Global warming rivals the Iraq War as the policy for which George W. Bush has been most savaged, with critics accusing him of braking or even sabotaging efforts to tackle climate change.

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