2009年1月31日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Major political forces in Iraqi elections (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 02:04 AM CST

AP - A look at the main political blocs in Saturday's provincial elections in Iraq.

Facts about Saturday's Iraqi election (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 02:02 AM CST

AP - Facts and figures about Saturday's provincial elections in Iraq.

Voting begins in Iraq under tight security (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 01:00 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 - Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and police cordons to vote Saturday in provincial elections that are considered a crucial test of the nation's stability as U.S. officials consider the pace of troop withdrawals.

Iraqis vote behind barbed wire, testing security (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 12:58 AM CST

A resident casts his vote in a polling station in Baghdad January 31, 2009. Iraqis vote on Saturday in the Iraq's first election since 2005 that will pick local councils in 14 of its 18 provinces. (Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)Reuters - Iraqis voted behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in an election that tested the war-battered country's fragile security gains and which may ease lingering sectarian resentment still fuelling violence.

Iraqis vote in landmark election (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 12:48 AM CST

An Iraqi man is searched as people arrive at the Salhiyeh polling station in central Baghdad to vote in the provincial elections. Voting in Iraq's provincial elections began amid tight security in the nation's first ballot since 2005.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraqis were voting in provincial elections on Saturday in a crucial test for a nation struggling to emerge from years of sectarian strife and strengthen its fledgling democracy.

Blackwater's Iraq deal not to be renewed (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 09:16 PM CST

Blackwater Worldwide's headquarters is seen in Moyock, N.C., in this Monday, July 21, 2008 file photo. Iraq will not allow Blackwater Worldwide to continue providing security protection for U.S. diplomats in the country, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Thursday Jan. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - The State Department said Friday it will not renew Blackwater Worldwide's contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May.

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

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 06:16 PM CST

Residents walk past an Iraqi armoured vehicle near a polling station in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, January 31, 2009. Iraqis voted behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in an election that tested the war-battered country's fragile security gains and which may ease lingering sectarian resentment still fuelling violence. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ)AP - As of Friday, Jan. 30, 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.

U.S. will not renew Blackwater contract in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 06:00 PM CST

Reuters - The U.S. State Department has told Blackwater Worldwide, the private security firm whose guards are accused of killing Iraqi civilians while protecting U.S. diplomats, that it will not renew its contract in Iraq.

Iraq's oil-rich Basra has endured hard times (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 05:01 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BASRA, Iraq — When masked militiamen kidnapped Aqeel Hatab Urmash on May 15, 2007, they burned him with cigarettes, beat him and shot him twice in the left leg. Doctors amputated his leg above the knee.

Obama watching Iraq vote, plans new approach soon (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:12 PM CST

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama is watching this weekend's elections in Iraq and will decide soon on an approach that will likely lead to a drawdown of U.S. forces there, the White House said on Friday.

Iraq elections 'significant milestone': US (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 03:16 PM CST

US President Barack Obama speaks on Middle Class Working Families Taskforce at the White House in Washington, DC. Obama will be watching the results in Iraq's elections which he sees as a AFP - US President Barack Obama will be watching the results in Iraq's elections which he sees as a "significant milestone" in the country's fledgling democracy, the White House said Friday.

Killing of Iraqi candidates highlights dangers (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 03:05 PM CST

Mourners gather around the coffin of Omer Farooq al-Ani, a Sunni candidate for provincial council killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Gunmen apparently targeting political candidates staged attacks around Iraq on Thursday, leaving at least three people dead as Iraqi forces began imposing a full-scale security clampdown in advance of voting for provincial council seats on Saturday. Al-Ani, a member of his neighborhood council, was running for the provincial seat under the biggest Sunni political group, the Islamic Iraq Party.(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)AP - The former Iraqi army officer decided to run in provincial elections to improve Mosul, his violent hometown. Instead, the Sunni father of four was gunned down days before the vote, the latest example of the dangers facing candidates campaigning openly for the first time since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Spotlight on vote-buying on eve of Iraqi ballot (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:18 PM CST

An electoral worker checks ballot boxes at a counting centre in Basra, 420km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad January 30, 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - On the eve of Iraq's provincial polls, reports of attempts to buy votes and fears about fraud threaten to cast a shadow over an otherwise vibrant campaign that will test the country's growing security.

Iraq encouraged by US reassurances, minister says (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 12:13 PM CST

AP - Iraq's foreign minister said Friday his government is very encouraged by reassurances from the new U.S. administration that there will be no quick withdrawal of American forces or irresponsible decisions regarding his country.

Female candidate runs to make change in her life, in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 12:07 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The face of Islam Abbas Faraj, 36, isn't among those on the campaign posters that blanket the walls of Iraq's Diyala province, a stew of Sunni and Shiite Muslim Arabs and Sunni Kurds north of Baghdad.

Iraq Christian candidate hopes he lives to see voting day (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 12:05 PM CST

Sami Habib Istifo sits in his office in the village of Hamdaniya, east of the restive city of Mosul, some 370 kms north of Baghdad on January 18, 2009. Istifo, a Christian candidate in Iraq's provincial elections, has already lined up a replacement in case he is killed before voting day tomorrow.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Sami Habib Istifo, a Christian candidate in Iraq's provincial elections, has already lined up a replacement in case he is killed before voting day tomorrow.

Air Force to train combat docs to use acupuncture (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 06:13 AM CST

Martha Lewis, 62, has a tiny gold acupuncture needle inserted in her ear by Air Force physician Col. Richard Niemtzow, at the acupuncture clinic on Andrews Air Force Base, Md. on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Chief Warrant Officer James Brad Smith broke five ribs, punctured a lung and shattered bones in his hand and thigh after falling more than 20 feet from a Black Hawk helicopter in Baghdad last month.

Elections a heated, divisive issue in Iraqi homes (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:34 AM CST

Iraqi party members hang up provincial election posters on January 29 as the country gears up for the upcoming elections. Members of the large Chamari family are deeply divided on who to vote for in this weekend's elections in Iraq, a big change from 2005 when the country last went to the polls.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Members of the large Chamari family are deeply divided on who to vote for in this weekend's elections in Iraq, a big change from 2005 when the country last went to the polls.

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