2009年1月9日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Cheney: Iraq is 'not a mess' (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 03:15 AM CST

Vice President Dick Cheney pauses during an interview with the Associated Press at the White House in Washington Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Vice President Dick Cheney, warning against impulsive U.S. action in Iraq, says that whether the struggling nation backslides into a cycle of violence partly depends on how President-elect Barack Obama decides to pull out American forces.

North Iraq bomb kills five in Iraqi army convoy (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 01:54 AM CST

Reuters - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi Army patrol killed five Iraqi soldiers Friday in the northern town of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,223 (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 06:49 PM CST

Recruiter Sgt. Mario Ashe (L) and Christopher Stevens talk in the tactical operations center area of the U.S. Army Experience center at the Franklin Mills mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 2009. The U.S. Army, struggling to ensure it has enough manpower as it fights wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is wooing young Americans with video games, Google maps and simulated attacks on enemy positions from an Apache helicopter. Departing from the recruiting environment of metal tables and uniformed soldiers in a drab military building, the Army has invested $12 million in a facility that looks like a cross between a hotel lobby and a video arcade. Picture taken January 7, 2009. (Tim Shaffer/Reuters)AP - As of Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009, at least 4,223 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq boosts security ahead of landmark elections (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 12:08 PM CST

Chief Electoral Officer from the Independent High Electoral Commission Qasim Hassan Sajet (L) and Multi-National Force Iraq spokesman Major General David Perkinsi give a press conference in Baghdad's Green Zone. Iraqi and US military forces will ramp up security ahead of landmark provincial elections set for January 31 when up to 15 million Iraqis could go to the polls, officials said on Thursday.(AFP/POOL)AFP - Iraqi and US military forces will ramp up security ahead of landmark provincial elections set for January 31 when up to 15 million Iraqis could go to the polls, officials said on Thursday.

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