2009年7月2日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

FBI notes: Saddam Hussein sought familiar refuge (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 04:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this image released by the U.S. Army on Dec. 14, 2003, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is shown in custody after he was arrested near his Tikrit home. Unclassified FBI interviews conducted during his incarceration at a U.S. detention center show new details about the late Iraqi dictator's life on the run - both before and after he was ousted.(AP Photo/U.S. Army)AP - After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister.

US vice president in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 03:21 PM PDT

Iraqi security forces secure the site of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, Iraq, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The attack was the first in Baghdad since US troops withdrew from Iraqi cities in the first step toward winding down the American war effort by the end of 2011. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Thursday to visit U.S. soldiers, just two days after all American combat troops withdrew from Baghdad and all of Iraq's cities and towns.

Mich. soldier in Iraq sworn in as lawyer by video (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 02:56 PM PDT

AP - Army Reserve Maj. Miles Gengler didn't hesitate as he repeated the oath during his swearing-in as an attorney. His words just had to travel more than 6,000 miles from Baghdad's Green Zone to Michigan to be heard.

U.S. declares Iraq-based group foreign terrorist organization (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 01:25 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. government on Thursday said it has declared Kata'ib Hizballah a foreign terrorist organization, saying the group is linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah and has posed a threat to stability in Iraq.

US infantry learns to adapt after Iraq pullback (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 01:24 PM PDT

US soldiers play basketball at Camp Warhorse in Baquba, 60 kms (35 miles) north of Baghdad, in 2007. It is business as usual for Camp Warhorse after the US military pullout from Iraqi towns and cities -- troops must follow orders and adapt to non-combat tasks in one of Iraq's most dangerous regions.(AFP/File/Olivier Laban-Mattei)AFP - It is business as usual for Camp Warhorse after the US military pullout from Iraqi towns and cities -- troops must follow orders and adapt to non-combat tasks in one of Iraq's most dangerous regions.

VP Biden visits Iraq as takes new role in US exit (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 01:01 PM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden, pictured in May 2009, flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities.

Vice President Biden visits Baghdad (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 12:51 PM PDT

President Barack Obama has asked Vice President Joe Biden, pictured in January 2009, to take on a new role overseeing the US departure from Iraq and Washington's effort to promote internal political reconciliation there.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)Reuters - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden made a previously unannounced visit to Baghdad on Thursday to meet Iraqi leaders and U.S. military commanders just days after American troops withdrew from Iraqi towns and city centers.

Iraqi top Shiite clerics are silent on Iran (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 12:05 PM PDT

This July 1, 2009 photo shows an Iranian woman outside the Imam Ail shrine in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq. There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf where the silence during Iran's postelection crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the silence during Iran's post-election crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds.

US puts sanctions on Iraq Shiite group, Iran adviser (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 11:20 AM PDT

A view of the US Treasury. The US Treasury Department said it froze the assets of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to the commander of Iran's Qods Force, an arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Shiite AFP - The United States imposed financial sanctions Thursday on an adviser to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Iraq-based Shiite group Kata'ib Hezbollah, branded a foreign terrorist outfit.

French PM seeks to raise business profile in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:27 AM PDT

In this handout made available by the Iraqi Prime Minister's office Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) shakes hands with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon in Baghdad. Fillon made a lightning visit to Baghdad on Thursday with a delegation of officials and business leaders seeking to raise France's profile in Iraq.(AFP/IRAQI PM OFFICE)AFP - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon made a lightning visit to Baghdad on Thursday with a delegation of officials and business leaders seeking to raise France's profile in Iraq.

Biden on surprise trip to Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 10:05 AM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden, pictured in May 2009, flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from conflict-hit Iraq's towns and cities.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - US Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Iraq Thursday in a surprise trip just days after US forces completed their pullout from Iraqi cities, the White House said.

White House: VP Biden has traveled to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 09:55 AM PDT

Iraqi SWAT teams take part in a parade in the sports stadium in the southern city of Najaf, some 160 kms from Baghdad, as on going celebrations take place to mark the June 30th pullout of US troops from Iraqi urban areas. US Vice President Joe Biden flew in to Baghdad on Thursday on a surprise visit just two days after a long-planned pullback of American troops from Iraq's towns and cities.(AFP/Qassem Zein)AP - The White House says Vice President Joe Biden is in Iraq.

Obama confident US can abide by pullout agreement (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 09:30 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is telling the Associated Press that he always has reserved the right to adjust the U.S. troop withdrawal timetable in Iraq based on changing circumstances.

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Posted: 02 Jul 2009 09:51 AM PDT

AP - VP Biden has arrived in Iraq to meet with leaders and discuss withdrawal of US troops.

Why Big Oil Declined Iraq's Riches (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 08:35 AM PDT

Time.com - Baghdad's first auction for the rights to develop its massive energy reserves is a flop, as economic and political factors restrain foreign investors

Iraqi soldier killed by bomb in Baghdad (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 07:22 AM PDT

A policeman directs traffic at a checkpoint in Baghdad July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ CONFLICT)Reuters - A roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in Baghdad on Thursday, police said, killing one soldier and wounding 10 people.

Iraqi soldier killed in first attack since US pullback (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 02:37 AM PDT

The shadow of an Iraqi soldier guarding a checkpoint in Baghdad. An Iraqi soldier was killed in the first attack on the country's security forces since the US military pullback from towns and cities.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - An Iraqi soldier was killed in Baghdad on Thursday in the first attack on the country's security forces since the landmark US military withdrawal from towns and cities nationwide.

FBI says Saddam's weapons bluff aimed at Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 02:01 AM PDT

A member of the Palestinian security forces walks past a mural depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the West Bank city of Jenin January 22, 2008. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanReuters - Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader.

Biden back in Iraq – with a new assignment (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As the US military presence in Iraq moves into the background, some Iraqi officials concerned that US preoccupation with the war in Afghanistan would prematurely leave Iraq to fend for itself are welcoming Washington's efforts to increase its political engagement here.

Next big test for Iraq: January election (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As the American troop presence recedes, Iraq is entering a new and critical political phase, according to top Iraqi officials.

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