2009年3月2日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,254 (AP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 04:13 PM PST

A US soldier secures a street in Baghdad on March 01 2009. Barack Obama has already pledged to send 17,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan this year to join 38,000 already there. Britain has 8,500 soldiers in the violence-wracked south of the country.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - As of Monday, March 2, 2009, at least 4,254 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Blackwater founder resigns as chief executive (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 12:45 PM PST

Reuters - The chief executive of Blackwater Worldwide, the private security firm whose guards are accused of killing Iraqi civilians while protecting U.S. diplomats, is stepping down, the company said on Monday.

Iraq plans census to map ethnic divisions (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 09:25 AM PST

Reuters - Iraq will hold a nationwide census in October, its first in 22 years, mapping ethnic divisions in a survey which could encourage reconciliation or fan the feuds threatening its fragile calm.

Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death for third time (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 07:32 AM PST

An Iraqi court condemned Saddam Hussein's notorious henchman AFP - An Iraqi court condemned Saddam Hussein's notorious henchman "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid to his third death sentence on Monday over the murder of Shiite Muslims 10 years ago.

Iraq's "Chemical Ali" given third death sentence (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 05:47 AM PST

Reuters - Ali Hassan al-Majeed, a former official in Saddam Hussein's regime known as "Chemical Ali," was given a third death sentence on Monday for his role in killing and displacing Shi'ite Muslims in 1999.

Roadside bomb kills two Iraqi soldiers (AFP)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 01:40 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint at a bridge in Baquba, 2007. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb attack while on patrol in restive Diyala province.(AFP/File/null)AFP - Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb attack while on patrol in restive Diyala province on Monday, police said.

Iran pushes Iraq to close MKO camp (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Pressure is growing on Iran's main opposition group to leave Iraqi territory after living under US military protection in a camp north of Baghdad since 2003.

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