2009年4月9日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Obama seeks $83.4 billion in special war money (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 05:29 PM PDT

U.S soldiers of 101st Airborne Division patrol in their armored vehicle in Parwan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 6, 2009. U.S. President Barack Obama has increased the U.S. focus on Afghanistan and has pledged to send 21,000 additional troops to bolster the 38,000 already in the country. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday for $83.4 billion for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for special troop funding that he opposed two years ago when he was senator and George W. Bush was president.

Lawsuit: Firms sold poison gas ingredients to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:49 PM PDT

AP - Three companies illegally sold materials to Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s for making chemical weapons that were used to carry out attacks against thousands of Iraqi Kurds and ultimately caused scores of chronic ailments, according to a federal lawsuit.

Obama seeks $83.4 bln more for Iraq, Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:47 PM PDT

US soldiers stand guard at the Abu Ghraib power plant in the outskirts of Baghdad prior to an inauguration ceremony for its reponening on April 8, 2009. US President Barack Obama is asking lawmakers for 83.4 billion dollars more to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2009, White House aides said Thursday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - US President Barack Obama formally asked lawmakers Thursday for another 83.4 billion dollars to pay for the immediate needs of his revamped strategy for Afghanistan and for the war in Iraq.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,266 (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:37 PM PDT

US soldiers stand guard at the Abu Ghraib power plant in the outskirts of Baghdad prior to an inauguration ceremony for its reponening on April 8, 2009. US President Barack Obama is asking lawmakers for 83.4 billion dollars more to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2009, White House aides said Thursday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - As of Thursday, April 9, 2009, at least 4,266 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Marine acquitted of murdering Iraqi detainee (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 04:17 PM PDT

The sign at the entrance to Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California. A US Marine sergeant accused of murdering an unarmed Iraqi detainee during fierce fighting in Fallujah five years ago was found not guilty Thursday at a court martial in California.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AFP - A US Marine sergeant accused of murdering an unarmed Iraqi detainee during fierce fighting in Fallujah five years ago was found not guilty Thursday at a court martial in California.

Marine who admitted shooting detainee acquitted (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 02:45 PM PDT

In a Tuesday, March 31, 2009 file photo, Marine Sgt. Ryan G. Weemer, walks to the courtroom at Camp Pendleton, Calif. A military jury on Thursday, April 9, 2009, acquitted Marine Sgt. Ryan Weemer on charges of murdering an unarmed detainee during battle in Fallujah, Iraq. The jury also acquitted Weemer of dereliction of duty in the November 2004 death. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)AP - A Marine who told authorities he shot an unarmed detainee in Iraq was acquitted of murder by a military jury Thursday, marking the government's second loss in its case against members of the squad.

Iraq to create nuclear energy commission (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 11:44 AM PDT

Journalists are shown the destroyed Tammuz Iraqi nuclear reactor in 2002. Iraq plans to create an atomic energy agency nearly three decades after Israeli bombers destroyed a reactor being built by the late dictator Saddam Hussein, the government spokesman said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar)AFP - Iraq plans to create an atomic energy agency nearly three decades after Israeli bombers destroyed a reactor being built by the late dictator Saddam Hussein, the government spokesman said on Thursday.

In Baghdad, a big craze for new cars (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 11:40 AM PDT

An Iraqi car dealer is seen at his automobile lot in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Business not bombs is booming at Baghdad car dealerships, as well-heeled Iraqis begin to take advantage of the relative calm in Iraq to indulge in a passion long out of reach - new, luxury cars.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Business, not bombs, is booming at Baghdad car dealerships, as well-heeled Iraqis are indulging in a passion long out of reach — spiffy, new cars.

Shiite rally marks anniversary of fall of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 11:09 AM PDT

Supporters of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burn an effigy of former U.S. President George W. Bush in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 9, 2009, for a rally marking the sixth anniversary of the fall of the Iraqi capital to American troops. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Tens of thousands of supporters of an anti-American cleric burned an effigy of ex-President George W. Bush on Thursday and demanded that U.S. troops leave Iraq in a rally marking the sixth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces.

Anti-US demo six years after Saddam statue toppled (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 10:43 AM PDT

Iraqi supporters of Shiite radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr march in Baghdad. Thousands of supporters of anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday protested the occupation of Iraq, six years after the toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue symbolised the fall of his regime.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Thousands of supporters of anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday protested the occupation of Iraq, six years after the toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue symbolised the fall of his regime.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis rally against U.S. (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 09:34 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Six years after the U.S. overthrew Saddam Hussein's government, tens of thousands of Iraqis gathered in the rain in Iraq's capital Thursday to mark the anniversary and renew calls for an American withdrawal.

Iraqi students make art not war with old weapons (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 09:07 AM PDT

A fish made out of bullet casings is diplayed in an artist workshop in Baghdad in January 2009. As the spectre of war recedes in Iraq four students are turning scrap from old guns and munitions into symbols of hope.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - They wrought death and destruction in one of the world's most heavily armed nations, but as the spectre of war recedes in Iraq four students are turning scrap from old guns and munitions into symbols of hope.

Iran opposition risks torture if repatriated: NGO (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 06:58 AM PDT

An Iranian militant of the opposition People Mujahedin Organization of Iran walks to attend a gathering at camp AFP - The World Organisation Against Torture is warning that 3,500 members of an Iranian opposition group currently in Iraq risk being tortured if they are repatriated.

Six years on, huge protest marks Baghdad's fall (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 02:49 AM PDT

Supporters of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wave Iraqi national flags as they march in a street during a protest in Baghdad April 9, 2009. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Baghdad calling for U.S. troops withdrawal from Iraq on the sixth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad after a U.S.-led invasion of the country. REUTERS/Kahtan al-Mesiary (IRAQ CONFLICT POLITICS)Reuters - Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad on Thursday to mark the sixth anniversary of the city's fall to U.S. troops, and to demand they leave immediately.

On anniversary of Saddam's fall, Iraqi protesters vent against US (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Tens of thousands of Iraqis crowded into the square Thursday where Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled, along with his regime, six years ago.

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