2009年2月3日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Former NKorea envoy Hill to be Iraq ambassador: US media (AFP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 01:47 AM CST

Christopher Hill, seen in December, is a career diplomat who was Washington's top nuclear negotiator with North Korea. Hill has been picked as the next US ambassador to Iraq, US media reports said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Christopher Hill, a career diplomat who was Washington's top nuclear negotiator with North Korea, has been picked as the next US ambassador to Iraq, US media reports said Tuesday.

Iraqi military puts Anbar province under curfew (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 12:38 AM CST

File image shows an Afghan woman receiving wheat donation bags in Kabul. The United States runs the risk of wasting billions of dollars in aid money for Afghanistan unless it learns AP - Iraq's military clamped a vehicle ban Monday on the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar after tribal sheiks sent gunmen into the streets claiming Sunni rivals linked to the Shiite-led government stole votes in last weekend's elections.

Citing Iraq, auditor warns against wasteful aid in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 10:06 PM CST

An Afghan labourer works at a brick factory in Kabul. The United States runs the risk of wasting billions of dollars in aid money for Afghanistan unless it learns AFP - The United States runs the risk of wasting billions of dollars in aid money for Afghanistan unless it learns "hard lessons" from a disastrous reconstruction effort in Iraq, government auditors said.

AP NewsBreak: Sailor electrocuted (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 10:04 PM CST

File image shows an Afghan woman receiving wheat donation bags in Kabul. The United States runs the risk of wasting billions of dollars in aid money for Afghanistan unless it learns AP - A third U.S. service member has been determined to have been electrocuted in a shower in Iraq, and Navy criminal investigators are investigating, The Associated Press has learned.

Obama talks troop drawdown with Iraq's Maliki, Talabani (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 09:26 PM CST

A US soldier stands in front of a school polling station in the Iraqi town of Mandali on January 29. US President Barack Obama discussed plans for a drawdown of US combat troops in Iraq during phone calls to the country's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani, the White House said.(AFP/File/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - US President Barack Obama discussed plans for a drawdown of US combat troops in Iraq during phone calls to the country's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani, the White House said.

Obama calls Iraqi leaders, South Korean president (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 09:07 PM CST

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the press in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, February 2, 2009. (Larry Downing/Reuters)AP - President Barack Obama telephoned Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Monday to congratulate them on the provincial elections held over the weekend. Obama also spoke with South Korea's president.

Chris Hill expected to be named U.S. envoy to Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 08:14 PM CST

Christopher Hill walks towards reporters at a hotel in Beijing, December 7, 2008. (Jason Lee/Reuters)Reuters - Chris Hill, a career U.S. diplomat who has been Washington's lead negotiator with North Korea, is expected to be named U.S. ambassador to Iraq, a U.S. official who asked not to be named said on Monday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,237 (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 06:40 PM CST

File image shows an Afghan woman receiving wheat donation bags in Kabul. The United States runs the risk of wasting billions of dollars in aid money for Afghanistan unless it learns AP - As of Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, at least 4,237 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Lead negotiator in NKorea to be next envoy to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 06:35 PM CST

File image shows an Afghan woman receiving wheat donation bags in Kabul. The United States runs the risk of wasting billions of dollars in aid money for Afghanistan unless it learns AP - Christopher Hill, the Bush administration's lead negotiator with North Korea, is the leading candidate to become the next U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, officials said Monday.

Waste, fraud in Iraq being repeated in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 06:07 PM CST

Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, gestures during testimony on wasteful spending at the first hearing of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 2, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES)AP - Waste and corruption that marred Iraq's reconstruction will be repeated in Afghanistan unless the U.S. transforms the unwieldy bureaucracy managing tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure projects, government watchdogs warned Monday.

Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 02:12 PM CST

AP - _October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

Obama spoke with Iraqi leaders Maliki and Talabani (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 01:26 PM CST

A U.S. soldier of Bravo Company, 1-18 Infantry Battalion stands guard during a patrol at a market in Mosul, north of Baghdad, February 2, 2009. (Erik de Castro/Reuters)Reuters - President Barack Obama spoke on Monday with Iraqi leaders as the new U.S. administration reviews policies and Iraq holds elections.

UK troops have met conditions for Iraq withdrawal (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 12:09 PM CST

British soldiers guard outside the presidential palace during a handover ceremony in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad, December 16, 2007. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - British troops in Iraq have largely met the conditions required for their withdrawal and are on track to begin leaving the country by May 31, a top British commander said on Monday.

Iraq tribes threaten to take up arms over poll (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 10:01 AM CST

Reuters - Tribal sheikhs who helped drive al Qaeda militants out of Western Iraq threatened on Monday to take up arms against the provincial government because of what they said was fraud in Saturday's provincial polls.

Dutch inquiry into support for Iraq invasion (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 09:42 AM CST

AP - The Dutch prime minister on Monday ordered an independent inquiry into his government's decision to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 — even though that support was verbal only.

Iraqi voters shun ruling religious parties (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 06:50 AM CST

A Sunni Iraqi celebrates following provincial elections in the western Anbar town of Ramadi, on February 1 2009. Iraqis voted heavily for secular parties in last weekend's provincial polls, in a show of disaffection with the religious parties that lead the central government, early indications showed on Monday.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Iraqis voted heavily for secular parties in last weekend's provincial polls, in a show of disaffection with the religious parties that lead the central government, early indications showed on Monday.

Iraqi vote expected to bolster Maliki (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST

A worker removes election campaign posters from a blast wall in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. The Iraq election commission said on Monday that the tally from a weekend election will still take two or three more days. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)The Christian Science Monitor - Election day was largely free of violence as millions of Iraqis voted in provincial polls that appear to have bolstered Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's power in the south and weakened the Kurds' dominance in the north.

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