2009年2月19日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,245 (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 06:17 PM CST

Ernie Vallee, right, of Leominster, Mass. stands with other veterans outside St. Cecilia's Church Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 prior to funeral services for Pfc. Jonathan Roberge. The 22-year-old private was killed by a suicide car bomber near Mosul, Iraq, while on patrol in a Humvee. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)AP - As of Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009, at least 4,245 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's final election results secure victory for Maliki (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:58 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Final election results released Thursday echoed what already was known: The political party of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki won big in provincial polls Jan. 31, a victory stemming from his crackdown on sectarian violence in the war-torn nation.

Iraq a Haven from the Global Financial Crisis -- For Now (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:05 PM CST

Time.com - Unspent oil billions are propping up the Iraqi economy, but the cushion is wearing thin. And there isn't any other fast way to raise cash

Iraqi provincial election results (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:20 PM CST

AP - A list of the division of seats on local councils in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces according to final results from elections announced Thursday:

US-backed Sunni group takes Anbar vote (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:18 PM CST

AP - Sunni tribal leaders who led an uprising against insurgents expanded their political clout and the Shiite-led government reaped rewards for security crackdowns in Iraq's biggest cities, according to full results issued Thursday from last month's provincial elections.

Maliki list tops Iraq poll but needs alliances (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:15 PM CST

Iraqi election commission chief Faraj al-Haydari reads out the provincial election results for Baghdad during a press conference in the capital. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's allies triumphed in the January 31 provincial polls, final results showed on Thursday, boosting his position in war-battered Iraq after fiercely contested elections.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's allies came first in all nine of Iraq's Shiite provinces in provincial polls, final results showed on Thursday, but they will have to compromise to govern at local level.

Seven Iraqi soldiers, police killed in bomb attacks (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 11:04 AM CST

Iraqi female relatives grieve as they identify the bodies of killed relatives at the morgue in the north-eastern town of Baquba. Seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen were killed in roadside and car-bomb attacks in several parts of northern and central Iraq on Thursday, police said.(AFP)AFP - Seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen were killed in roadside and car-bomb attacks in several parts of northern and central Iraq on Thursday, police said.

Trial of Iraqi shoe thrower adjourns until March 12 (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 10:31 AM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — When Iraqi journalist Muntathar al Zaidi took the stand Thursday, he said that he hadn't planned to hurl his shoes at President George W. Bush, but the sight of the smirking leader at a Baghdad news conference got the best of him.

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush goes on trial (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:52 AM CST

Iraqi officials share a laugh as they unveil a bronze shoe monument in the northern city of Tikrit in January. The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US former president George W. Bush went on trial amid high security on Thursday with his lawyers set to argue that the remarkable protest was lawful.(AFP/File/Mahmud Saleh)AFP - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US former president George W. Bush went on trial amid high security on Thursday with his lawyers set to argue that the remarkable protest was lawful.

Trial begins for Iraqi journalist who threw shoes (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:45 AM CST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves as she takes a tour in a slum in Jakarta February 19, 2009. Clinton's visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, highlights President Barack Obama's desire to forge a better U.S. relationship with the Muslim world, where many of the policies of former president George W. Bush's administration, including the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, were deeply unpopular. REUTERS/Bay Ismoyo/Pool (INDONESIA)AP - Court proceedings against the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-President George W. Bush late last year have begun in Baghdad.

Iraq reporter who threw shoes at Bush goes on trial (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:43 AM CST

The brother of Muntazer al-Zaidi, a TV reporter from al-Baghdadiya who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush, displays his picture during an interview with Reuters in his apartment in Baghdad December 15, 2008. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - The Iraqi journalist who became an icon for critics of the U.S.-led invasion when he hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush went on trial on Thursday, facing up to 15 years in prison.

Testimony continues in soldier's court-martial (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:21 AM CST

AP - The court-martial of a U.S. soldier accused of taking part in the execution-style killings of four Iraqi prisoners continued Thursday with more witnesses to be called to the stand.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,245 (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:19 PM CST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves as she takes a tour in a slum in Jakarta February 19, 2009. Clinton's visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, highlights President Barack Obama's desire to forge a better U.S. relationship with the Muslim world, where many of the policies of former president George W. Bush's administration, including the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, were deeply unpopular. REUTERS/Bay Ismoyo/Pool (INDONESIA)AP - As of Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, at least 4,245 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Soldier pleads guilty to assault in Iraq death (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST

AP - An Army staff sergeant who was facing a murder charge in the death of an Iraqi detainee pleaded guilty to assault on Wednesday and received more than a year's confinement.

Obama urged to create special detainee commission (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST

AP - The former general who investigated abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison is joining an ex-FBI director and others in seeking a presidential commission to investigate the Bush administration's treatment of terror detainees.

After praise, poetry, Iraqi shoe thrower faces trial (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 03:21 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — In the two months since he chucked a pair of shoes across a crowded Baghdad room and narrowly missed former President George W. Bush, Iraqi journalist Muntathar al Zaidi has emerged as a folk hero, poetry muse and minor irritant.

Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions threaten to escalate into war (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 02:43 PM CST

An Iraqi police officer, left, and an Iraq Kurd peshmerga stand guard at a polling center in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. 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. (AP Photo)McClatchy Newspapers - MOSUL, Iraq — At the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, Khasro Goran, the deputy governor of Iraq's Nineveh province, is worried about the future.

Correction: Iraq exhibit story (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 12:59 PM CST

AP - In a Feb. 11 story about an Iraq war exhibit, The Associated Pres misstated the year when U.S. Army psychological operations specialist Jonathan Harvey spent 10 months in Iraq. It was in 2008, not 2007.

Four Iraqis killed in collision with British vehicle (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:44 AM CST

A British soldier keeps watch as an armoured vehicle drives by on the road around the airport ahead of the security transfer the southern Iraqi city of Basra, December 2007. Four Iraqi pilgrims were killed when their minibus ran into the back of a British army vehicle during a sandstorm near Basra, officials said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Four Iraqi pilgrims were killed when their minibus ran into the back of a British army vehicle during a sandstorm near the southern city of Basra, officials said on Wednesday.

Iraq speaker vote goes to run-off (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:38 AM CST

Iraqi MP Iyad al-Samarrai speaks to the press outside the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad's fortified 'Green Zone', November 2008. Iraqi MPs will vote in a run-off on Thursday to choose a new parliament speaker, with Samarrai -- an opponent of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki -- in pole position after a first round, parliamentary sources said.(AFP/Pool/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi MPs will vote in a run-off on Thursday to choose a new parliament speaker, with an opponent of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in pole position after a first round, parliamentary sources said.

Iraq museum row shows turf wars as violence fades (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 04:46 AM CST

Reuters - A standoff over when to reopen Iraq's National Museum, plundered after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, offers a glimpse into the political turf wars that are replacing sectarian violence.

Turkey could furnish a safe way home as US departs Iraq (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - Turkey is likely to play a prominent role as the US begins to remove thousands of tons of equipment and supplies from Iraq over the next year or so.

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