2009年4月3日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Popular, pro-US Iraqi aims to redraw political map (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:37 PM PDT

Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha is interviewed by The Associated Press in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 29, 2009. The Abu Risha clan paid a heavy price in the uprising against al-Qaida that helped turn the tide of the Iraq war: 30 relatives were killed, including their leader. Yet in the family home these days, the talk is less about the war and more about a possible new alliance that steps across the religious divide to stabilize Iraq and build peaceful postwar politics.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The Abu Risha clan paid a heavy price in the uprising against al-Qaida that helped turn the tide of the Iraq war: 30 relatives were killed, including their leader.

PM says Saddam loyalists infiltrated Iraq's Sahwa militia (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:37 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers load weapons confiscated from the Sahwa militia at the Bagdad Defense Ministry. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Iraqis on Friday that Al-Qaeda rebels and Saddam Hussein loyalists had infiltrated a pro-government militia that had helped to tame the country's deadly insurgency.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Iraqis on Friday that Al-Qaeda rebels and Saddam Hussein loyalists had infiltrated a pro-government militia that had helped to tame the country's deadly insurgency.

US in Iraq kills Sunni paramilitary planting bomb (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:31 PM PDT

Iraqi army soldier loads weapons seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in the Fadhil neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - A U.S. aircraft fired on suspected government-allied Sunni paramilitaries planting a bomb, killing one and wounding two, the U.S. said Friday — the latest sign of trouble in a program that has been a pillar of the American strategy to stabilize Iraq.

British minister to lead landmark trade mission to Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 11:37 AM PDT

Britain's business minister Peter Mandelson, seen here in March 2009, is set to lead the country's first official trade delegation to Iraq for more than 20 years, his office said Friday.(AFP/File/Gardner Hamilton)AFP - Britain's business minister Peter Mandelson is set to lead the country's first official trade delegation to Iraq for more than 20 years, his office said Friday.

Dozens of Iraqi Sahwa militiamen arrested (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 10:08 AM PDT

Iraqi soldiers load weapons confiscated from the Sahwa militia at the Bagdad Defense Ministry. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Iraqis on Friday that Al-Qaeda rebels and Saddam Hussein loyalists had infiltrated a pro-government militia that had helped to tame the country's deadly insurgency.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - Dozens of Iraq's Sahwa militia, which helped tame a deadly insurgency, have been arrested amid warnings from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that they have no immunity from the law, sources said on Friday.

U.S. forces say fired on Sunni force in Baghdad (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:17 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. forces said on Friday they opened fire on a group of fighters who could belong to a Sunni Arab patrol unit, days after the arrest of members of another unit by Iraqi forces triggered a gun battle.

Iraq presidency approves slashed budget (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:53 AM PDT

An oil refinery plant in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in central Iraq in 2008. Iraq's presidency has rubber-stamped a 58.9 billion-dollar budget for 2009, after billions were wiped off spending plans because of a sharp fall in oil prices, a government spokesman said.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - Iraq's presidency has rubber-stamped a 58.9 billion-dollar budget for 2009, after billions were wiped off spending plans because of a sharp fall in oil prices, a government spokesman said on Friday.

US Marine stood with gun over Iraqi: witness (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:51 AM PDT

File picture shows a TV cameramn taping footage of the sign at the entrance to Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California. A US Marine charged with killing an unarmed Iraqi was found by fellow troops pointing his pistol at the man and standing over his body, a witness said.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AFP - A US Marine charged with killing an unarmed Iraqi was found by fellow troops pointing his pistol at the man and standing over his body, a witness said.

After uprising, Iraqi government releases Sunni paramilitary leader (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 05:33 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Ten days after arresting him in the middle of the night, the Iraqi government Thursday freed a prominent Sunni Muslim paramilitary leader and dropped all charges against him.

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