2009年5月23日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Slayings shattered dreams of rural Iraqi family (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 03:36 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the U.S. District Court and introduced by the prosecution as an exhibit in the trial of former Army Pfc. Steven Green in Paducah, Ky., shows Abeer Qassim al-Janabi as a young girl in Iraq. Green, convicted of raping and killing al-Janabi and murdering her family was sentenced to life in prison Thursday, May 21, 2009 in a case that drew attention to the emotional and psychological strains on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court via The Courier-Journal)AP - The beautiful, dark-haired girl in the photograph stands near a wall in pre-invasion Iraq. What is unseen and now lost, her family says, is her dream of moving to the big city and getting married.

How the Economy Could Crush Iraq's Hopes (Time.com)

Posted: 23 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT

Time.com - The Baghdad government's ability to pay its way toward stability is being heavily compromised by the collapse of oil prices

Funeral for NJ soldier slain at Iraq stress clinic (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 02:09 PM PDT

The flag-draped casket of U.S. Army Sgt. Christian Bueno-Galdos is carried for his Funeral Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, N.J., Saturday, May 23, 2009. Officials say the 25-year-old was among five soldiers gunned down by Sgt. John M. Russell at a stress clinic in Iraq on May 11. Bueno-Galdos was born in Peru, but immigrated with his family to Paterson as a seven-year-old. He joined the Army out of high school. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A New Jersey man who military authorities say was among five soldiers gunned down in Iraq by a distraught comrade has been laid to rest.

Green Zone killing heightens security fears (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 01:28 PM PDT

Egenia Galdos, second right, and husband Carlos Bueno, right, look on as a military honor guard folds the American Flag off the casket of their son, U.S. Army Sgt. Christian Bueno-Galdos at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa, N.J. on Saturday, May 23, 2009. Officials said the 25-year-old was among five soldiers gunned down by Sgt. John M. Russell at a stress clinic in Iraq on May 11. Bueno-Galdos was born in Peru, but immigrated with his family to Paterson as a seven-year-old. He joined the Army out of high school. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - An American was found dead in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, the U.S. military said Saturday, the apparent victim of an unprecedented slaying that occurred at a time when blast walls are coming down and Iraqi forces are assuming greater control.

Iraq's disgraced trade minister expected to step down (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 23 May 2009 10:08 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iraq's trade director, who made history last week as the first government minister ever forced to answer corruption charges before a nationwide television audience, is expected to resign before a no confidence vote in the Iraqi parliament on Tuesday, a top party official said Saturday.

Two Pentagon workers die in Baghdad's Green Zone (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 08:38 AM PDT

A soldier stands by an Iraqi flag at the entrance to al-Senek bridge which leads to the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. An American civilian has been found dead inside central Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, the US military has said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - One American civilian and a person working for the Pentagon died inside central Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone in unrelated incidents, the US military said on Saturday.

Iraq PM slams law pardoning mainly Sunni prisoners (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2009 07:56 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's Shi'ite leader vowed on Saturday to amend a law meant to foster sectarian reconciliation by pardoning mostly Sunni prisoners, saying it had led to the release of "terrorists" and corruption suspects.

Baghdad has new security layer: street gates (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 06:51 AM PDT

In this image taken on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, Spc. Hamilton Tongkeamha,of Dallas, Texas, with Charlie Company, 1-18 Combined Arms Battalion, 2d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, walks during a routine patrol near the holy Shiite shrine of Imam Kazim in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - Even as the Iraqis are removing some of the concrete blast walls that divide Baghdad, authorities have quietly installed about 100 metal gates near a major Shiite shrine — a clear sign of ongoing security concerns as bombings continue.

Rocket blast kills U.S. civilian in Baghdad Green Zone (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2009 03:37 AM PDT

Reuters - A Katyusha rocket blasted Baghdad's fortified government and military Green Zone compound overnight, killing a civilian working for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

Iraq "best" in Mideast for press freedom: Maliki (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 03:29 AM PDT

A large poster showing Iraqi journalists killed since the US-led invasion of the country is displayed during a conference to mark World Press Freedom Day in Baghdad earlier this month. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said Iraq is the best country in the Middle East for freedom of the press, despite the deaths of more than 240 media workers since the 2003 US-led invasion.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday Iraq was the best country in the Middle East for freedom of the press, despite the deaths of more than 240 media workers since the 2003 US-led invasion.

US civilian found dead in Baghdad's Green Zone (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 03:25 AM PDT

A soldier stands by an Iraqi flag at the entrance to al-Senek bridge which leads to the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. An American civilian has been found dead inside central Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, the US military has said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - An American civilian has been found dead inside central Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, the US military said on Saturday.

Iraqi Army: almost one-quarter lacks minimum qualifications (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 May 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In a legacy of the US rush to build up Iraqi security forces, almost one-quarter of the Iraqi Army currently fails to meet its own minimum qualifications for soldiers, the Iraqi government is discovering in its first real look at the composition of the Army.

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