2009年1月30日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq on high alert after election candidates shot dead (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:43 AM CST

A US soldier patrols a polling station in the Iraqi town of Mandali. Iraq on Friday prepared for its first election since 2005 with police and soldiers on high alert after gunmen killed candidates and campaign workers, raising security fears ahead of polling day(AFP/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - Iraq on Friday prepared for its first election since 2005 with police and soldiers on high alert after gunmen killed candidates and campaign workers, raising security fears ahead of polling day.

Plastered in posters, Iraq's Basra waits for polls (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:31 AM CST

An electoral worker ties a ballot box after closing the polling station in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, January 28, 2009. Soldiers, police, prisoners and displaced people began early voting on Wednesday ahead of Saturday's provincial election in Iraq, which will determine the political landscape across the country as U.S. forces withdraw. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - The machines have finally gone quiet at Basra's biggest printing press after a frantic month of churning out the election posters now plastered on almost every inch of Iraq's second biggest city.

Roadside bomb explodes, killing 2 and wounding 14 (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:31 AM CST

An Iraqi security officer patrols a street past provincial election posters in Baghdad. Armed gunmen claimed the lives of three Iraqi election candidates on Thursday and two campaign workers were also murdered in attacks just two days before the country's first poll since 2005.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AP - An Iraqi police official says a roadside bomb found south of Baghdad killed two officers and wounded 14 others after it exploded while they were trying to diffuse it.

A momentous vote in Iraq after years of war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - In a country undergoing a grand reinvention, voters Saturday will choose not just who represents them in provincial governments but define the shape of Iraq in the tumultuous year ahead.

Iraqi city of Mosul key electoral battlefield (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:15 AM CST

AP - This weekend's election in Mosul is a showdown for power between Arabs and Kurds, with the outcome likely to influence whether al-Qaida and other Sunni insurgents lose their last major urban foothold in Iraq.

Iraq, Afghan auditors discuss rebuilding from wars (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 11:22 PM CST

In this photo provided by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Armored Security Vehicles move into Forward Operating Base Shank as part of a four-hour convoy that carried soldiers of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team from Bagram Air Field to the the FOB in the Logar province of Eastern Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan 24, 2009. Thousands of U.S. troops originally destined for Iraq have deployed south of Afghanistan's capital in the first illustration of a new military focus on the increasingly difficult fight in the South Asian nation. Nearly 3,000 American soldiers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum, New York, moved into the provinces of Logar and Wardak to the NATO said Tuesday. They will serve as part of the 55,000-strong NATO force in the country. (AP Photo/ISAF, Sgt. Amber Robinson, HO)AP - The often chaotic and wasteful $125 billion Iraq rebuilding effort will face new trouble and uncertainty this year despite the decline in violence there, a new audit report says.

Boy's wrapped b-day present is dad home from Iraq (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 09:45 PM CST

AP - Gabriel Hurles' sixth birthday party wasn't a surprise, but his present sure was.

Blackwater: We will leave Iraq if US orders it (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:24 PM CST

This is a April 4, 2004 file photo Plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight as Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Muqtada Al Sadr attempt to advance on a facility being defended by U.S. and Spanish soldiers, in the Iraqi city of Najaf,. The Blackwater USA contractors were actively involved in defending the position. The images were taken by Spanish freelance photographer Gervasio Sanchez and were made available to The Associated Press Tuesday, October 2, 2007. Iraq said Thursday it will bar Blackwater Worldwide from providing security protection for U.S. diplomats because its contractors used excessive force, sanctioning a company whose image was irrevocably tarnished by the 2007 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians. (AP Photo/Gervasio Sanchez,File)AP - Blackwater Worldwide, denied an operating license in Iraq, said Thursday it could leave the country within 72 hours but cautioned that such a move would cause more harm to the American diplomats it protects than the company itself.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,236 (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:25 PM CST

Iraqi party members hang up election posters. Iraq on Friday prepared for its first election since 2005 with police and soldiers on high alert after gunmen killed candidates and campaign workers, raising security fears ahead of polling day(AFP/Ali Yussef)AP - As of Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at least 4,236 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

'City of death' may be key to Iraq's future (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:26 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAQOUBA, Iraq — The trip from Baghdad to Diyala province, a land of mostly farmers and shepherds that connects the mountains of northern Iraq to the fields, crosses a landscape of dust and devastation. Driving into the province's capital city, once synonymous with death and still violent, the first words on a small concrete wall at an Iraqi army checkpoint are, "Patience, my beloved Iraq."

Behind Iraqi walls plastered with promises, tragic stories (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:20 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAQOUBA, Iraq — Every wall that surrounds the homes of potential voters in Diyala province is covered in posters promising change and hope, but behind them there are likely to be tragic stories of loss.

First black Iraqi runs in elections (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 03:01 PM CST

AP - He calls himself the "Iraqi Obama" and hopes to channel President Barack Obama's good luck by becoming the first black Iraqi to win an election.

Five killed in Iraq pre-election violence (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 02:47 PM CST

A US soldier from the Alfa Troops 5-1 calvary patrols a polling station in the Iraqi town of Mandali, as part of a patrol to check security measures in place for upcoming Iraqi elections. Armed gunmen claimed the lives of three Iraqi election candidates on Thursday and two campaign workers were also murdered in attacks just two days before the country's first poll since 2005.(AFP/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - Gunmen claimed the lives of three Iraqi election candidates on Thursday and two campaign workers were also murdered in attacks just two days before the country's first poll since 2005.

Three candidates slain ahead of Iraq polls (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 02:38 PM CST

A policeman marks his ballot in a polling station in Baghdad January 28, 2009. (Saad Shalash/Reuters)Reuters - Gunmen killed three Iraqi election candidates in separate incidents on Thursday, two days before Iraq holds provincial polls that will test the war-weary country's fragile democracy.

US to comply with Iraq ban on Blackwater (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 01:36 PM CST

Blackwater founder Erik Prince testifying in 2007. The US State Department said Thursday it will comply with Iraq's ban on controversial US security outfit Blackwater but still had to decide on the AFP - The US State Department said Thursday it will comply with Iraq's ban on controversial US security outfit Blackwater but still had to decide on the "next steps" to ensure security for its employees.

Iraqi shoe hurler inspires art in Saddam hometown (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 01:05 PM CST

Girls stand next to a sculpture of a shoe that serves as a monument to the shoes thrown at then-US president George W. Bush in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. The shoe-hurling last month at Bush spawned a flood of Web quips, political satire and street rallies across the Arab world. Now, it's inspired a work of art. (AP Photo)AP - When an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at George W. Bush last month at a Baghdad press conference, the attack spawned a flood of Web quips, political satire and street rallies across the Arab world.

Iraq won't allow Blackwater security firm to stay in country (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 12:57 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iraq told the United States this week that it won't renew the license of Blackwater Worldwide, a North Carolina-based security firm that's provided protection for U.S. diplomats in Iraq but has been widely criticized as using force excessively.

A look at Blackwater in Iraq during the war (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 12:44 PM CST

AP - Iraq said Thursday it will bar Blackwater Worldwide from providing security protection for U.S. diplomats because its contractors used excessive force. A look at events surrounding Blackwater's time in Iraq:

Shoe monument for man who threw footwear at Bush (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 12:44 PM CST

A statue built for Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at former U.S. president George Bush, is seen in Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) Baghdad, January 27, 2009. (Sabah al-Bazee/Reuters)Reuters - An Iraqi town has unveiled a giant monument of a shoe in honor of the journalist who threw his footwear at former U.S. President George W. Bush.

Kuwaiti carrier demands extra bln dlrs from Iraq: report (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2009 12:30 PM CST

A ground crewmember takes a peek inside the cabin of a Kuwait Airways Airbus A340 in 2006. Kuwait wants Iraq to pay one billion dollars in compensation to its national carrier for Saddam Hussein's invasion on top of a pledged 300 million dollars, according to a report on Thursday.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)AFP - Kuwait wants Iraq to pay one billion dollars in compensation to its national carrier for Saddam Hussein's invasion on top of a pledged 300 million dollars, according to a report on Thursday.

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