2009年5月9日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US army says child Iraqi grenade-thrower killed (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:37 PM PDT

Adults and childern are body searched by a security officer as they make their way to Friday noon Shiite Muslim prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City district on May 8, 2009. The US military said on Saturday its soldiers shot dead a 12-year-old boy who tried to attack a joint American and Iraqi patrol with a grenade in the tense northern city of Mosul.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - The US military said on Saturday its soldiers shot dead a 12-year-old boy who tried to attack a joint American and Iraqi patrol with a grenade in the tense northern city of Mosul.

U.S. forces shoot Iraqi boy dead after grenade attack (Reuters)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:12 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. military said on Saturday its troops had shot dead a 12-year-old Iraqi boy suspected of throwing a grenade at them, and said it believed insurgents were paying children to help them.

Iraqi leader calls for anti-corruption campaign (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 12:51 PM PDT

A girl observes a U.S. army soldier from the 82nd Airborne Brigade as his unit secures a street in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 9, 2009. The U.S.-Iraq security agreement that took effect this year calls for American combat troops to leave urban areas by the end of June, with all U.S. forces out of the country by the end of 2011. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq should launch an anti-corruption campaign that would match the fight it has waged against insurgents and militias, the country's prime minister said Saturday amid increasing complaints over criminality in the government.

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

Posted: 09 May 2009 09:28 AM PDT

An Iraqi police commando stands guard as tourists visit the Castle of Persian King Xerxes at Salman Pak south of Baghdad in March 2009. The first official Asian tour group to enter Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003 is visiting historic and religious sites in the country, the tourism ministry said on Saturday.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - The first official Asian tour group to enter Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003 is visiting historic and religious sites in the country, the tourism ministry said on Saturday.

Iraq police general shot dead in Basra (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 08:12 AM PDT

Iraqi police inspect a shrapnel-riddled vehicle which was damaged by a roadside bomb last year in Basra. An Iraqi police general has been assassinated near Basra in a rare instance of violence in the country's third largest city.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - An Iraqi police general was assassinated on the street near the oil hub of Basra on Saturday, police said, in a rare instance of violence in the country's third largest city.

Iraq's Kurds to begin oil exports in June (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 06:45 AM PDT

The Taq Taq oil field in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region will begin exporting crude oil for the first time on June 1.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region will begin exporting crude oil for the first time on June 1, the regional government said.

Pope urges world to protect Iraq Christians (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 04:44 AM PDT

An Iraqi Christian prays at the Church of the Virgin Mary in Baghdad. Pope Benedict XVI has urged the world to make every effort to protect Iraq's Christian minority in a speech to Muslim leaders in Jordan.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Pope Benedict XVI urged the world to make every effort to protect Iraq's Christian minority in a speech on Saturday to Muslim leaders in neighbouring Jordan.

Iran ex-PM Mousavi bids for presidency (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2009 01:49 AM PDT

Former Iranian premier Mir Hossein Mousavi -- who steered Iran's economy through the brutal war with Iraq in the 1980s -- waves to his supporters after registering his candidacy for next month's presidential election. The race for Iran's presidency hotted up as the two key moderate opponents of hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad formally registered to stand against him in the June 12 election.(AFP/Atta Kenare)AFP - Mir Hossein Mousavi, who as premier steered Iran's economy through the brutal war with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s, registered on Saturday as candidate for next month's presidential election.

Whatever Happened to Muqtada al-Sadr? (Time.com)

Posted: 08 May 2009 10:55 PM PDT

Time.com - A rare public appearance by the radical Iraqi cleric in Turkey has renewed speculation about his future plans and what they might mean for Baghdad

Troops may leave Mosul by June 30: U.S. general (Reuters)

Posted: 08 May 2009 07:17 PM PDT

Reuters - The top U.S. commander in Iraq said on Friday that U.S. combat forces could be able to leave the violence-torn city of Mosul by a June 30 deadline for withdrawing American combat brigades from Iraqi cities.

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