2009年3月20日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,260 (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 04:07 PM PDT

An Iraqi police commando inspects the site where a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in Baghdad on March 13, 2009. A bomb exploded killing a policeman and seriously wounding two more on Friday evening in southern Iraq, a security officer said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AP - As of Friday, March 20, 2009, at least 4,260 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Brits and Americans enjoy package tour - in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:54 PM PDT

British national Bridget Jones buys wine and beer from a shop in central Baghdad. When Jones leaves her apartment in London's leafy neighbourhood of Hampstead she does not believe in taking a regular holiday. She is one of five Britons, two Americans and a Canadian on the first officially approved tour group since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Bridgett Jones does not believe in taking a regular holiday when she leaves her apartment in London's leafy Hampstead neighbourhood.

Iraqi budget woes force security hiring freeze (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 12:20 PM PDT

A U.S. Navy boat approaches a British war ship in the waterway that borders Iran in Umm Qasr in southern Iraq, Monday, March 16, 2009. Iraq's budget woes have forced the security forces to put recruiting plans on hold even as the U.S. and British militaries move forward with plans to relinquish more responsibilities for protecting the nation's vital infrastructure and waterways. That has left the fledgling Iraqi navy with more than 60 percent of its slots unfilled less than two months before it is due to take over one of two oil terminals floating in a disputed waterway that borders Iran. (AP Photo/Kim Gamel)AP - The drop in oil prices has forced Iraq's military and police to put recruiting on hold even as the U.S. hands over more responsibility for protecting the country.

Bomb kills Iraqi policeman (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 11:59 AM PDT

An Iraqi police commando inspects the site where a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in Baghdad on March 13, 2009. A bomb exploded killing a policeman and seriously wounding two more on Friday evening in southern Iraq, a security officer said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - A bomb exploded killing a policeman and seriously wounding two more on Friday evening in southern Iraq, a security officer said.

US flag-burning marks war anniversary (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 11:34 AM PDT

Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burn an American flag during an anti-US demonstration marking the 6th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - American flags were set on fire Friday to chants of "no, no for occupation" as followers of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric marked the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war.

Iraqi family sues ex-Blackwater guard over death (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 11:05 AM PDT

AP - The family of a slain Iraqi security guard says in a federal lawsuit that a former Blackwater contractor fatally shot the man while wandering drunk in Baghdad, and the survivors accuse the company of covering up wrongdoing while reneging on promises of compensation.

Blackwater sued in US court over alleged cover-up (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 10:21 AM PDT

Members of the US private security company Blackwater, seen here in 2006, aboard a Hughes 500 helicopter secure the way of a US convoy in Baghdad. The widow of a 32-year-old Iraqi has filed suit in a federal court against private security firm Xe, formerly Blackwater, for allegedly trying to hide that her husband was killed by one of its security agents who was drunk.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - The widow of a 32-year-old Iraqi has filed suit in a federal court against private security firm Xe, formerly Blackwater, for allegedly trying to hide that her husband was killed by one of its security agents who was drunk.

Iraq's Shiites call for end of US occupation (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 08:33 AM PDT

Iraqi Shiites burn a US flag during a demonstration following Friday prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City. Thousands of followers of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for an end to US occupation of Iraq, but the sixth anniversary of the invasion was ignored by the government.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - Thousands of followers of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for an end to US occupation of Iraq on Friday, but the government ignored the sixth anniversary of the invasion.

Western firm to bring more tourists to Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 07:18 AM PDT

Iraqi policemen patrol a street in Baghdad. The first Western firm to bring a group of foreign tourists to Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion said it will be back with more sightseers, despite having security difficulties on the trip.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - The first Western firm to bring a group of foreign tourists to Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion said on Friday it will be back with more sightseers, despite having security difficulties on the trip.

Tiny Christian community stays put in Iraqi home (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 04:59 AM PDT

Iraqi Armenian school children play at the community's playground in central Baghdad on March 10, 2009. Armenians have long been one of its smallest communities with little political influence, even with associates of 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.

Troops fighting to finish off rebels in Mosul (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 03:41 AM PDT

US soldiers patrol a neighborhood in Jisr Majid, February 2008. An American commander said that a violent insurgency in Iraq's second city has been weakened but not defeated, posing key questions for Washington as US troops prepare to withdraw soon.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - A violent insurgency in Iraq's second city has been weakened but not defeated, posing key questions for Washington as US troops prepare to withdraw soon, an American commander told AFP Friday.

Iraqis still battle for life and limb (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:24 AM PDT

A US soldier stands guard at the scene of a twin bombing when a car first detonated in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah in Baghdad, followed by a suicide bomber, November 2008. The end of the war beckons, but six years after the US-led invasion, Iraqis are still struggling with daily hardship and the fear of deadly, indiscriminate attacks.(AFP/File/Nafee Abdul Rahman)AFP - The end of the war beckons, but six years after the US-led invasion, Iraqis are still struggling with daily hardship and the fear of deadly, indiscriminate attacks.

Q&A: Stolen Treasure Hunter Matthew Bogdanos (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:00 AM PDT

Time.com - In his new book Thieves of Baghdad, Marine Colonel Matthew Bogdanos talks about his search for the missing treasures of Iraq and the myths that have arisen around the looting of the Iraqi National Museum.

US soldier dies from non-combat causes in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 12:40 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died from non-combat causes in Iraq.

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