2009年8月26日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi Shi'ite party leader dies, successor eyed (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:10 PM PDT

Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of Shi'ite religious political party Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), waves to supporters during an election campaign rally in Najaf, south of Baghdad January 25, 2009. REUTERS/Ali Abu ShishReuters - The leader of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite Muslim political groups and most important religious dynasties died on Wednesday, adding to uncertainty in a violent run-up to an election next January.

Police: Iraqi forces recover stolen Picasso (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:51 PM PDT

AP - Special forces have recovered a stolen Picasso and arrested a man planning to sell the painting during a raid of his house in southern Iraq, Iraqi police said Wednesday.

Analysis: Iraq's Shiite power base shifts (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2006 file photo, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq smiles at worshippers after Friday Prayers at the King Hussein mosque in Amman, Jordan. Influential clerics say one of Iraq's most powerful Shiite leaders has died after his health deteriorated while he was being treated for lung cancer. Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim has wielded enormous influence since the 2003 U.S. invasion as head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, maintaining close ties to both the Americans and his Iranian backers. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud,File)AP - Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim held together Iraq's biggest Shiite political party as the ultimate middleman: maintaining his deep ties with Iran and cultivating his new alliances of necessity with America.

Iraqi PM steps up pressure on Syria over militants (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2008 file photo, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, arrives at a polling center to vote in the country's provincial elections in central Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Hakim has been hospitalized in Iran after suffering a setback while being treated for lung cancer.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday stepped up pressure on Syria to hand over two suspects wanted in recent suicide attacks on government ministries in Baghdad.

US hopes for dialogue between Iraq, Syria (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:01 PM PDT

Iraqi ambassador in Syria Ala al-Jawadi taling to the press in Damascus on August 25, 2009. The United States said Wednesday it hoped that Iraq and Syria would pursue dialogue after they recalled their envoys over Baghdad's allegations that its neighbor is sheltering insurgents.(AFP/File)AFP - The United States said Wednesday it hoped that Iraq and Syria would pursue dialogue after they recalled their envoys over Baghdad's allegations that its neighbor is sheltering insurgents.

Powerful Iraqi Shiite leader dies in Iran (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 11:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2006 file photo, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq smiles at worshippers after Friday Prayers at the King Hussein mosque in Amman, Jordan. Influential clerics say one of Iraq's most powerful Shiite leaders has died after his health deteriorated while he was being treated for lung cancer. Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim has wielded enormous influence since the 2003 U.S. invasion as head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, maintaining close ties to both the Americans and his Iranian backers. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud,File)AP - Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein to become one of Iraq's most influential politicians, died Wednesday in Iran, the country that was long his key ally. He was 59.

Iraq Shiite leader Hakim dies in Iran (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 11:31 AM PDT

The leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, pictured in March 2009, died on Wednesday in a Tehran hospital after a long battle with lung cancer, five months ahead of key parliamentary elections in Iraq.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - The leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, died on Wednesday in a Tehran hospital after a battle with lung cancer, five months before key parliamentary elections in Iraq.

Prominent Shiite political leader dies in Iran (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 07:35 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Abdul Aziz al Hakim, the leader of one of Iraq's dominant Shiite Muslim political parties and a renowned cleric who resisted Saddam Hussein's regime for more than 20 years while in exile, died Wednesday in Tehran.

Iraq approves controversial Sinopec oil rights deal (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:58 AM PDT

Employees work at an oil drilling facility near Taq Taq in Iraq's northern Kurdish region in 2006. Iraq has approved a deal that would see China's Sinopec Group acquire controversial oil rights in northern Iraq through its purchase of Swiss oil giant Addax Petroleum, Chinese media have said.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraq has approved a deal that would see China's Sinopec Group acquire controversial oil rights in northern Iraq through its purchase of Swiss oil giant Addax Petroleum, Chinese media said Wednesday.

(AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:05 AM PDT

AP - Aides: powerful Iraqi Shiite leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim has died in Iranian hospital.

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