2009年2月25日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

After pullout some US forces still in combat (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 03:52 PM PST

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs takes a question during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Some of the U.S. forces likely to remain in Iraq after President Barack Obama fulfills his pledge to withdraw combat troops would still have a combat role fighting suspected terrorists, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Obama leans to 19-month Iraq withdrawal: official (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 02:29 PM PST

A US soldier, from Bravo troop 5-1 Cavalry, takes part in a patrol to check security measures for the upcoming provincial elections in the eastern town of Khanaqin, near the border with Iran. President Obama is expected to announce his timeline for withdrawing US troops from Iraq this week, leaning towards a 19-month pullout rather than the 16-month target he backed when campaigning for office.(AFP/File/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - President Barack Obama is expected to announce his timeline for withdrawing US troops from Iraq this week, leaning towards a 19-month pullout rather than the 16-month target he backed when campaigning for office, officials said on Wednesday.

McCain warns of losing fragile gains in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 01:32 PM PST

AP - Republican Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that security gains in Iraq could be lost if the new administration pulls troops out too quickly, but he didn't dismiss the feasibility of President Barack Obama's 19-month timetable.

Terror-linked lawmaker faces arrest in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 12:28 PM PST

A US soldier from Delta troop, 5-1 Cavalry, takes part in a patrol in the eastern town of Khanaqin, in Diyala province near Iraq's border with Iran in February 2009. President Barack Obama is expected to announce his timeline for withdrawing US troops from Iraq this week, leaning towards a 19-month pullout rather than the 16-month target he backed when campaigning for office.(AFP/Filippo Monteforte)AP - An Iraqi Airways jet carrying a Sunni lawmaker accused of being a terror boss was ordered back to Baghdad on Wednesday, but authorities could only watch as the combative legislator slipped away before fellow parliament members stripped him of his immunity.

Baghdad party marks Kuwait liberation on eve of FM visit (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 11:47 AM PST

Kuwait City's banking complex is decorated with lights and the national flag on February 24, 2009 as the oil-rich emirate prepares to mark the 18th anniversary of its liberation from the Iraqi occupation. Kuwait marked its 1991 liberation from Iraqi occupation at a party in Baghdad on Wednesday, on the eve of the highest-level visit to Iraq since Saddam Hussein's troops invaded the emirate.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)AFP - Kuwait marked its 1991 liberation from Iraqi occupation at a party in Baghdad on Wednesday, on the eve of the highest-level visit to Iraq since Saddam Hussein's troops invaded the emirate.

Iraq hunts fugitive MP in parliament bombing (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 11:01 AM PST

Flowers at the chair of Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad in April 2007, a member of the small Sunni party National Front for Iraqi Dialogue who was killed in a bomb attack during a special session in Baghdad. Iraqi authorities on Wednesday launched a manhunt for an MP accused of involvement in an April 2007 bombing of parliament after his immunity was lifted and he was prevented from fleeing to Jordan.(AFP/Pool/File/Ceerwan Aziz)AFP - Iraqi authorities on Wednesday launched a manhunt for an MP accused of involvement in an April 2007 bombing of parliament after his immunity was lifted and he was prevented from fleeing to Jordan.

Obama to announce Iraq troop withdrawal decision (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 09:43 AM PST

US soldiers patrol in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad in 2008. US President Barack Obama will announce his decision on a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq this week, upholding a campaign pledge.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - President Barack Obama will announce his decision on a timetable for withdrawing US troops from Iraq this week, upholding a campaign pledge, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.

Italy plans virtual Baghdad museum (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 09:11 AM PST

AP - After helping to fund the reopening of Iraq's National Museum, Italy is planning a virtual exhibition of Mesopotamian and Islamic treasures, many of which are still missing from the looted Baghdad repository, officials said Wednesday.

Iraq's waning insurgency scrambles for new sanctuary (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Feb 2009 12:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Looking across a canal at Umm al-Gatan, a village of about 20 houses, US Army Lt. Drew Vanderhoff is nagged by one of the classic frustrations of counterinsurgency warfare.

Making music, not war, in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 11:11 PM PST

An Iraqi student practices on an oud, an oriental string instrument similar to the western lute, at the Institute of Musical Studies in central Baghdad, on February 18. Ransacked by looters, threatened by religious militias, the Institute of Musical Studies in Baghdad is slowly recovering from its wounds after the AFP - The Baghdad Institute of Music once again hums with activity after years of silence enforced by fear. Students hasten along corridors, lute in hand, as others laugh and gossip on a sun-bathed patio.

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