2008年12月27日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi police hunt down Qaeda escapees (AFP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2008 02:46 AM CST

Iraqi police take part in exercises during their graduation ceremony. Iraqi police on a desperate manhunt for Al-Qaeda leaders who broke out of jail after a deadly firefight surrounded two former insurgent strongholds in the western city of Ramadi on Saturday(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Iraqi police on a desperate manhunt for Al-Qaeda leaders who broke out of jail after a deadly firefight surrounded two former insurgent strongholds in the western city of Ramadi on Saturday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,217 (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2008 07:24 PM CST

Iraqi police take part in exercises during their graduation ceremony. Iraqi police on a desperate manhunt for Al-Qaeda leaders who broke out of jail after a deadly firefight surrounded two former insurgent strongholds in the western city of Ramadi on Saturday(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AP - As of Friday, Dec. 26, 2008, at least 4,217 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Top Iraq cleric urges people to vote in provincial poll (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2008 10:56 AM CST

Iraqi Shiites pray at the Imam Kadhim Shrine in the Kadhimiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad. Iraq's supreme Shiite religious authority Ali Husseini al-Sistani has called on Iraqis to make sure they vote in provincial elections in January.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq's supreme Shiite religious authority Ali Husseini al-Sistani called on Iraqis on Friday to make sure they vote in provincial elections in January.

Police: 13 killed in jailbreak in Ramadi, Iraq (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2008 07:11 AM CST

Iraqi policemen are seen here on a patrol in Baghdad. Six Iraqi policemen and seven Al-Qaeda militants were killed when the militants attempted a pre-dawn breakout from a police station in the western city of Ramadi, police said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - Four suspected al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents broke out of jail during a riot Friday that killed six police officers and seven prisoners in the western city of Ramadi, police said.

Iraq militants escape jail, at least 14 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Dec 2008 05:46 AM CST

Police load the bodies of prisoners killed during clashes at the al-Fursan jail to a police vehicle in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad December 26, 2008. (Ali Mashdanni/Reuters)Reuters - Three senior Islamist militants escaped from their cells in clashes overnight at a police station in Iraq's western city of Ramadi, which killed at least seven police and seven militants, officials said.

Bush's $1 Trillion War on Terror: Even Costlier Than Expected (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Dec 2008 03:30 AM CST

Time.com - Three new studies show the cost of the Administration's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been far higher than the White House predicted

The Shoe-Thrower Becomes an Issue in Iraq Election (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Dec 2008 03:20 AM CST

A grab from the pool video, courtesy of CNN, showing US President George W. Bush(L), ducking a shoe thrown by Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi on December 14, 2008. Al-Zaidi will go on trial this month on charges that carry up to 15 years in jail, a judge said on Monday.(AFP/CNN/File)Time.com - Going easy on Bush-bashing journalist Muntader al-Zaidi could help Prime Minister Maliki at the polls. Some of his other election tactics may be less benign

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