2009年6月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Obama signs $106 billion bill for Iraq, Afghan wars (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 02:23 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama signs the Supplemental Appropriations Act in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama on Wednesday extended a set of economic sanctions on North Korea for another year as tension soars with the communist state over its nuclear and missile programs.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)Reuters - President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a $106 billion measure to fulfill his plans to wind down the war in Iraq and ramp up operations in Afghanistan where fighting against militants is intensifying.

US intel: Al-Qaida numbers, activity drop in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 02:14 PM PDT

An Iraqi policeman surveys the damage from a truck bomb that exploded the day before in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Residents of the town hit by Iraq's bloodiest attack in 16 months were searched for their loved ones after a massive truck bombing killed 72 people and destroyed dozens of houses.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AP - The number of al-Qaida extremists in Iraq has plummeted and their ability to maintain a high-level of attacks has been eroded, U.S. intelligence suggests.

Iraqi's sweet sorrow: Bomb sniffers detect his perfume (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 02:14 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — It would be futile to try to pinpoint the person in Baghdad who's suffered the most during six years of war and sectarian violence.

Bomb kills at least 72 in Baghdad's Sadr City (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 02:03 PM PDT

A policeman examines the site of a car bomb attack in Karrada District, central Baghdad, June 22, 2009. REUTERS/Bassim ShatiReuters - A bomb killed at least 72 people on Wednesday at a busy market in eastern Baghdad's Sadr City slum, police said, six days before U.S. combat troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities.

Bomb strikes Shiite market in Baghdad, killing 69 (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 02:03 PM PDT

A U.S. Army soldiers from the 37th Engineer Company is seen at the Crossed Swords monument in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 24, 2009. The Iraqi government on Tuesday declared a public holiday to mark next week's withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Baghdad and other cities. American forces already have begun pulling back from outposts inside the cities ahead of a June 30 deadline, the first phase of a full withdrawal by the end of 2011.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A bomb ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad's main Shiite district on Wednesday, killing at least 69 people and wounding more than 100 less than a week before a deadline for U.S. combat troops to leave Iraq's urban areas.

No change to Iraq pullout: White House (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 01:47 PM PDT

Iraqi Army soldiers stand guard during a handover ceremony of a US military outpost to Iraqi control in the Sadr City area of Baghdad on June 20, 2009. President Barack Obama was having no second thoughts about pulling US troops out of Iraqi cities, the White House said.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - The White House said Wednesday President Barack Obama was having no second thoughts about pulling US troops out of Iraqi cities, despite bloody attacks which have killed 150 people in the last week.

Major bombings in Iraq since Jan. 1 (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 01:39 PM PDT

AP - Deadliest bombings in Iraq since Jan. 1, when a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact took effect:

US discounts Iraq withdrawal risk despite attacks (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 01:08 PM PDT

U.S. Army soldiers from the 37th Engineer Company are seen at the Crossed Swords monument in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 24, 2009. The Iraqi government on Tuesday declared a public holiday to mark next week's withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Baghdad and other cities. American forces already have begun pulling back from outposts inside the cities ahead of a June 30 deadline, the first phase of a full withdrawal by the end of 2011.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The Obama administration has concluded the risk of a security collapse in Iraq is too slight to slow plans for withdrawing U.S. troops.

Iraq Kurds pass new constitution to include Kirkuk (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:37 PM PDT

An Iraqi Kurd parliamentarian looks through a copy of the draft constitution prior to a vote in the Kurdish parliament in the city of Arbil 350 kms, north of Baghdad. Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan on Wednesday passed a new constitution in which it laid claim to the disputed oil-rich province of Kirkuk, a move likely to increase ethnic tension.(AFP/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan on Wednesday passed a new constitution in which it laid claim to the disputed oil-rich province of Kirkuk, a move likely to increase ethnic tension.

Baghdad market blast kills 62 as US pullout looms (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 12:21 PM PDT

Fruits and vegetables are scattered at the site where a car bomb exploded in 2006. At least 62 people were killed by a bomb in a crowded market in Baghdad's sprawling slum neighbourhood of Sadr City on Wednesday, less than a week before US troops must pull out of Iraq's cities.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - At least 62 people were killed by a bomb in a crowded market in Baghdad's sprawling slum neighbourhood of Sadr City on Wednesday, less than a week before US troops must pull out of Iraq's cities.

Few U.S. troops to stay in Iraq cities after June 30 (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 10:59 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman surveys the damage from a truck bomb that exploded the day before in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Residents of the town hit by Iraq's bloodiest attack in 16 months were searched for their loved ones after a massive truck bombing killed 72 people and destroyed dozens of houses.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)Reuters - Only a small number of U.S. troops will be left in Iraqi cities after a June 30 deadline for combat forces to leave urban areas but the exact number is still being worked on, a U.S. spokesman said on Wednesday.

Bomb kills 52 in Baghdad (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 10:57 AM PDT

Reuters - A bomb killed 52 people on Wednesday at a market in eastern Baghdad's volatile Sadr City slum, police said, six days before U.S. combat troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities.

55 killed in Baghdad market blast (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 10:56 AM PDT

Fruits and vegetables are scattered at the site where a car bomb exploded in 2006. At least 62 people were killed by a bomb in a crowded market in Baghdad's sprawling slum neighbourhood of Sadr City on Wednesday, less than a week before US troops must pull out of Iraq's cities.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Fifty-five people were killed and 116 injured by a bomb in a crowded market in Baghdad's predominantly Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City, an interior ministry official said on Wednesday.

(AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 10:50 AM PDT

AP - Iraqi officials: At least 56 killed, 104 wounded in bombing in Baghdad's main Shiite district.

US Army in back seat as Iraqi forces take over (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 08:59 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman talks with Iraqi policemen as they search through her home in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on June 18, 2009. From July 1, 2009 Iraq's army and police will take sole responsibility on the streets, in a key test of the fledgling forces' abilities more than six years after the US-led invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - US Army Lieutenant Dan Wagner arrived in Iraq six months ago knowing his country was no longer calling the shots when it came to security, but he is resigned to further massive changes within days.

Blind Iraqi girl gets new set of eyes in London (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 06:20 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, June 18, 2009, three-year-old Shams is seen with her grandmother at her home in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Baghdad car bombing has returned home to Baghdad with a new set of eyes following a trip to London for medical treatment. Shams still can't see, but her family says the reconstructive surgery — which is expected to take years — will give her a chance to live a normal life without the stigma of a scarred appearance. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A 3-year-old Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Baghdad car bombing has returned home to Baghdad with a new set of prosthetic eyes after a trip to London for medical treatment.

Stabilizing Iraq: Why Mosul is a special case (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As the June 30 deadline approaches for US troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities, the murder of a young man on a crowded downtown street illustrates why Americans could have trouble completely leaving this troubled provincial capital.

Corruption tops many Iraqis' concerns, not security (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 01:42 AM PDT

Reuters - Many Iraqis, inured to violence after years of slaughter between Shi'ites and Sunnis, seem more worried about the corruption that has crept into every corner of life and is eating away at Iraq's nascent public institutions.

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