2009年3月21日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

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

Posted: 21 Mar 2009 05:24 PM PDT

An image grab taken from a videotape broadcast in by the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news network shows a British hostage held in Iraq, who gave his name as Peter Moore. A group that kidnapped five British men in Iraq nearly two years ago has sent a video to the British embassy in Baghdad, a spokesman said Saturday.(AFP/Al-Arabiya/File)AP - As of Saturday, March 21, 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.

Protests in Washington, Calif. call for war's end (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2009 05:07 PM PDT

Anti-war protesters carry mock coffins draped in American flags across the Memorial Bridge to Arlington, Va., during a march to the Pentagon, marking the sixth anniversary of the war on Iraq, Saturday, March 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Before war protesters ended their demonstration Saturday afternoon, several placed cardboard coffins in front of the offices of northern Virginia defense contractors such as KBR Inc. and Lockheed Martin Corp. as riot police stood by.

Kidnappers of Britons in Iraq send video to Baghdad embassy (AFP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2009 02:57 PM PDT

An image grab taken from a videotape broadcast in by the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news network shows a British hostage held in Iraq, who gave his name as Peter Moore. A group that kidnapped five British men in Iraq nearly two years ago has sent a video to the British embassy in Baghdad, a spokesman said Saturday.(AFP/Al-Arabiya/File)AFP - A group that kidnapped five British men in Iraq nearly two years ago has sent a video to the British embassy in Baghdad, a spokesman said Saturday.

Protesters march to Pentagon, call to end Iraq war (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2009 01:44 PM PDT

Anti-war protesters carry mock coffins draped in American flags across the Memorial Bridge to Arlington, Va., during a march to the Pentagon, marking the sixth anniversary of the war on Iraq, Saturday, March 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - Hundreds of war protesters from across the country gathered in Washington on Saturday to mark the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

For tourists, seeing Iraq one checkpoint at a time (AP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2009 11:46 AM PDT

Tina Townsend Greaves, from Yorkshire, U.K., takes a photo during a visit to the crossed swords monument in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 21, 2009. Greaves was one of eight visitors — including Britons and Americans — on the first officially sanctioned tour of Iraq outside the semiautonomous northern Kurdish region since the March 2003 U.S. invasion. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The Western tourists had their own reasons for joining the sightseeing tour: One wanted a glimpse of ancient ruins, another liked to visit countries in the news.

U.S. hands almost all Sunni guards to Iraqi control (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Mar 2009 09:36 AM PDT

Reuters - Almost 90 percent of the tens of thousands of U.S.-backed fighters who helped purge much of Iraq of al Qaeda have been transferred to Iraqi control, the U.S. commander in charge of their program said Saturday.

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