2009年2月10日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

France's Sarkozy flies into Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:55 AM CST

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech during the signing of an agreement with French car makers at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 9, 2009. (Michel Euler/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday on the first visit to Iraq by a French head of state since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, which Paris strongly opposed.

Sarkozy on surprise visit to Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:46 AM CST

French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday, the first ever trip to Iraq by a French head of state.(AFP/Pool/File/Michel Euler)AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday, the first ever trip to Iraq by a French head of state.

French president arrives on first trip to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:09 AM CST

US soldiers keep watch on a group of Iraqi men for questioning in Mosul, in 2007. Four American soldiers and an interpreter were killed in a suicide car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, in the deadliest attack since last May, the US military said.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived Tuesday in Baghdad on his first trip to Iraq — a major step in his efforts to rebuild ties with Iraq and end any lingering U.S.-French animosity over the 2003 Iraq invasion.

A Quiet Election Masks the Iraqi Option for Violence (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 11:30 PM CST

Time.com - Hailed as a success, the ballot nevertheless highlighted trouble areas and the country's propensity for solving problems through killing

U.S. senator seeks Bush-era "truth commission" (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 08:56 PM CST

Former President Bush waves as he returns from Camp David to the White House in Washington, January 18, 2009. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)Reuters - A U.S. "truth commission" should investigate Bush administration policies including the promotion of war in Iraq, detainee treatment and wiretapping without a warrant, an influential senator proposed on Monday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,243 (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 07:36 PM CST

Army Spc. Cliff Cornell, 28, speaks with his attorney, not pictured, Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 in Savannah, Ga. after traveling three days by bus from Canada to turn himself in to the Army. Cornell plans to turn himself in to military police Tuesday at nearby Fort Stewart, where he'll likely face criminal charges for abandoning his unit before it deployed to Iraq in January 2005. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - As of Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, at least 4,243 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Four Guantanamo prisoners handed over to Iraq: ICRC (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 03:50 PM CST

In this photo reviewed by the US Military, a guard stands as birds fly by at Guantanamo's Camp 4 detention center at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in January 2009. Four Iraqi prisoners from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been handed over to the authorities in Baghdad, a Red Cross official told AFP on Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)AFP - Four Iraqi prisoners from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been handed over to the authorities in Baghdad, a Red Cross official told AFP on Monday.

Oregon soldier's death is under investigation (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 03:15 PM CST

Army Spc. Cliff Cornell, 28, speaks with his attorney, not pictured, Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 in Savannah, Ga. after traveling three days by bus from Canada to turn himself in to the Army. Cornell plans to turn himself in to military police Tuesday at nearby Fort Stewart, where he'll likely face criminal charges for abandoning his unit before it deployed to Iraq in January 2005. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - Army criminal investigators have opened a probe into the death of an Oregon soldier who was electrocuted while swimming in Iraq at a U.S.-operated base.

Four US soldiers killed in Iraq suicide bombing (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:32 PM CST

US soldiers keep watch on a group of Iraqi men for questioning in Mosul, in 2007. Four American soldiers and an interpreter were killed in a suicide car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, in the deadliest attack since last May, the US military said.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AFP - Four American soldiers and an interpreter were killed in a suicide car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, in the deadliest attack since last May, the US military said.

Suicide bomber kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:36 PM CST

Reuters - A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle laden with explosives near a U.S. patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing four U.S. soldiers and their interpreter, the U.S. military said.

U.S. says Iran still supporting Iraq militants (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:23 PM CST

U.S. Sgt. Jacob Sandoz, 25, of 1/8 Infantry Battalion looks out from a Bradley Fighting Vehicle window while they undertake a foot patrol looking for militants, explosives and weapons in a neighborhood in Mosul June 12, 2008. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)Reuters - Iranians are still supporting Shi'ite militants in Iraq with weapons and training, despite a reduction in violence in Iraq, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad said in a television interview on Monday.

Saddam and Bush are taboo as Iraq schools recover (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 09:43 AM CST

Pupils study before the start of their examinations in a high school in Baghdad May 26, 2008. (Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud/Reuters)Reuters - For Baghdad schools, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush and the sectarian slaughter unleashed after U.S. troops invaded six years ago are non-issues, banned from books and their discussion taboo.

Iraq to arrest foreigners without Baghdad visa (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 08:06 AM CST

A Kurdish soldier searches a car at a checkpoint near the town of Zakho on the Iraqi-Turkish border, 2007. Foreigners who enter Iraq through the Kurdish north of the country without a visa issued by the authorities in Baghdad will face arrest and legal charges.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Foreigners who enter Iraq through the Kurdish north of the country without a visa issued by the authorities in Baghdad will face arrest and legal charges, the interior ministry warned on Monday.

Iraq far from peace and wracked by sectarianism: Allawi (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 05:44 AM CST

Former prime minister Iyad Allawi, seen here in 2005, told AFP, Western nations should not delude themselves that Iraq is on the brink of peace, warning them a AFP - Former prime minister Iyad Allawi told AFP on Monday Western nations should not delude themselves that Iraq is on the brink of peace, warning them a "fireball" could engulf planned general elections.

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