2009年3月19日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

AP IMPACT: Many Iraqis held by US to go free (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 05:03 PM PDT

A U.S. soldier stands guard as detainees pray at a U.S. military detention facility Camp Bucca, Iraq, Monday, March 16, 2009. The United States aims to shut down its largest detention center, Camp Bucca, by 2010. More than 9,600 detainees who were captured as national security threats over the last four years are still being held there; at its peak, the prison located 340 miles southeast of Baghdad held 26,000 detainees. Under the Jan. 1 security agreement with Iraq, the U.S. has released more than 18,000 detainees so far this year and expect to release as many as 1,300 each month. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - Thousands of Iraqis held without charge by the United States on suspicion of links to insurgents or militants are being freed by this summer because there is little or no evidence against them.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,259 (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 04:10 PM PDT

A protestor (L) is led away by police after being arrested for blocking street car traffic on Market Street during a demonstration on the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq, in San Francisco, California March 19, 2009. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES CONFLICT SOCIETY ANNIVERSARY)AP - As of Thursday, March 19, 2009, at least 4,259 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 Urged to Halt Execution of 128 Prisoners (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 02:50 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Mar 19 (OneWorld.net) - Iraq should halt the execution of 128 death row prisoners, says an international human rights monitor, citing reports that violence has remained extremely high despite the reintroduction of the death penalty in 2004.

As Iraq war enters 7th year, focus on politics (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 12:57 PM PDT

U.S. Army soldiers wait go out on a routine patrol in Baladiyat, an eastern neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 19, 2009. Sunni and Shiite lawmakers on Thursday warned that political and economic challenges could derail Iraq's progress toward stability as the country enters its seventh year of war. After six years of conflict and tens of thousands of deaths, violence has declined sharply nationwide, although attacks continue and the insurgency remains potent in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Sunni and Shiite lawmakers warned Thursday that political and economic challenges could derail the country's progress toward stability as the Iraq war entered its seventh year.

Hardship still the life of Iraqis, Red Cross says (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 10:36 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman patrols a street with comrades in Baghdad. Iraqis still struggle with daily hardship and indiscriminate attacks six years after the US-led invasion, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Thursday.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqis still struggle with daily hardship and indiscriminate attacks six years after the US-led invasion, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Thursday.

First Western tour group in post-Saddam Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 10:32 AM PDT

A mall in Baghdad. The first official Western tour group to enter Iraq since the US-led invasion six years ago is visiting historic and religious sites in the country, the tourism ministry said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - The first official Western tour group to enter Iraq since the US-led invasion six years ago is visiting historic and religious sites in the country, the tourism ministry said on Thursday.

First group of Iraqi refugees lands in Germany (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 10:22 AM PDT

An Iraqi refugee waves as she leaves the plane after arriving at the airport in Hanover, northern Germany. The first group of Iraqi refugees to be taken in by Germany as part of a European resettlement programme landed at Hanover airport on Thursday, the government said.(AFP/DDP/Nigel Treblin)AFP - The first group of Iraqi refugees to be taken in by Germany as part of a European resettlement programme landed at Hanover airport on Thursday, the government said.

After Six Years of War, Iraq's Future Remains Clouded (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 10:10 AM PDT

Time.com - While the war lingers in a few parts of the country, much of its territory now has to deal with the volatile promise and peril of politics, oil and ethnicity

Iraqis headed to US get one-year visa: embassy (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 08:38 AM PDT

This picture released by the US Embassy shows the inauguaration of the new US Embassy in Baghdad in January 2009. Iraqi citizens who want to travel to America will be given an improved one-year multiple entry visa if their applications are successful, the US Embassy in Baghdad announced on Thursday.(AFP/HO/File/Eric Brooks)AFP - Iraqi citizens who want to travel to America will be given an improved one-year multiple entry visa if their applications are successful, the US Embassy in Baghdad announced on Thursday.

In Mosul, Iraq's Insurgency Refuses to Be Tamed (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 07:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Iraq's third largest city remains a hotbed for al-Qaeda-affiliated insurgents. What is feeding the war there?

Mass grave found during oil search in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 05:27 AM PDT

Iraqis inspect human remains at a newly discovered mass grave at an area 30 kms north of Basra. A mass grave containing dozens of victims of a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Gulf War was discovered during oil exploration work in Iraq(AFP/null)AFP - A mass grave containing dozens of victims of a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Gulf War was discovered during oil exploration work in Iraq on Thursday, an official said.

In Iraq, a boy named 'War' turns 6 (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:00 AM PDT

U.S. Army soldier stands guard next to a weapons seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in Baladiyat, an eastern neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iman Kadhim felt the contractions at 2 a.m. on March 20, 2003. The streets of Baghdad were deserted; people cowered in their homes awaiting the threatened U.S. invasion. But the baby wasn't going to wait.

Tiny Christian community stays put in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2009 11:25 PM PDT

An Iraqi Armenian priest prays over the tombs of deceased fellow Armenians at the community's cemetery in central Baghdad. Armenians have long made up Iraq's smallest and politically least significant community, seen as a secret of their success, with the country's wealthiest woman and a AFP - Armenians have long been one of its smallest communities with little political influence, even with the wealthiest woman in Iraq and associates of "Mr Five Percent" of Iraqi oil once among its ranks.

Iraq's last Sabeans seek help to save dying sect (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2009 11:19 PM PDT

A Sabean cleric takes part in a purification ritual on the banks of the Tigris river in Baghdad. The Sabeans are a dying community in Iraq. Their numbers have dwindled from 35,000 before the 2003 US-led war to just 7,000-8,000, says Sabean church leader Sheikh Sattar Jabbar al-Hulu.(AFP/Joseph Eid)AFP - Between the bullrushes growing thickly along the banks of the Tigris river that flows through the Iraqi capital, Sabeans are taking a baptismal dip to mark the creation of the world.

US urged to fix Iraqi refugee 'mess' it created (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2009 08:43 PM PDT

Iraqi children peer from the doorway of a hut in a squatter camp inhabited by internally displaced refugees in the northern Hurriyah neighbourhood of Baghdad in November. The United Nations has estimated that some two million Iraqis have fled the war and sought refuge in neighboring countries, primarily Syria and Jordan.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - As the Iraq war entered its seventh year, Ahlam, Dalal and Saad could be considered among the luckier Iraqis: they're alive and have made it to the United States as refugees.

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