2009年7月18日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Key security test for Iraq as pilgrims commemorate saint (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 12:47 PM PDT

Shiite pilgrims carry a replica coffin of Imam Musa al-Kadhim through the Kadhimiya district of northern Baghdad. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims thronged a Baghdad shrine on Saturday to commemorate a Shiite saint in a key test for Iraq's security forces less than three weeks after the US military withdrew from cities across the country.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims thronged a Baghdad shrine on Saturday to commemorate a Shiite saint in a key test for Iraq's security forces less than three weeks after the US military withdrew from cities across the country.

2 million pilgrims visit shrine as Iraqi security forces pass test (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 11:30 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces passed their first big test minus American troops with flying colors -- and with veil-to-sandal searches of an estimated 2 million pilgrims at one of Shiite Islam's most sacred shrines.

Iraqi army weathers first security test (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 10:36 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's first major religious festival since U.S. troops pulled out of its cities ended largely peacefully Saturday, officials said, a sign Iraqi forces may have passed a first serious solo test.

Iraq: Suspect arrested in attack on US base (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 10:12 AM PDT

Iraqi police stand guard over two men who are alleged to have links to an attack on a U.S. military base that killed three soldiers in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 18, 2009. (AP Photo/ Nabil Jurani)AP - Iraqi authorities have arrested a member of an Iranian-backed militia suspected in an attack that killed three U.S. soldiers in southern Iraq, police said Saturday.

PKK rebels back re-election of Kurd chief Barzani (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 08:36 AM PDT

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebel group said that it hoped the region's president Massud Barzani, seen here in April 2009, would be re-elected to his post in polls next week.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebel group said on Saturday that it hoped the region's president Massud Barzani would be re-elected to his post in polls next week.

Baghdad's antique shops tell city's sad story (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 07:55 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, June 11, 2009, antique dealer Waleed al-Shikhli, 29, working at his shop in Baghdad, Iraq. The two dozen or so antique shops in the Iraqi capital boast treasures of museum quality. Like Baghdad, a city of mosques with turquoise tiled domes and streets divided by barbed war and blast walls, the shops' contents speak of both Iraq's recent dark days and its more gloried past. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Antique dealer Riyadh al-Khafaf has so few customers he hasn't bothered to dust his collection of fine metalware from the early 20th century. Other dealers say they can go for days without seeing even a browser.

U.S. State Dept helicopter crashes in Iraq, two dead (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 06:19 AM PDT

Reuters - A helicopter contracted to the U.S. State Department crashed near Baghdad, killing two crew members and injuring two other people on board, the U.S. embassy said on Saturday.

Two contractors killed in Iraq helicopter accident (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 06:14 AM PDT

An Iraqi helicopter flies over the Imam Musa al-Kadhim mosque in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad. The US embassy has confirmed that two employees of an American security company have been killed in a helicopter accident in Iraq.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Two employees of an American security company have been killed in a helicopter accident in Iraq, a spokeswoman for the US Embassy in Baghdad said on Saturday.

Iraq to consider unjustly accused from Saddam era (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 04:50 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's government is considering reprieving some Iraqis deemed to have been unjustly targeted in moves to seize the assets of those close to ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a top official said on Saturday.

Iraq attacks kill five near Fallujah (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 03:03 AM PDT

Iraqi police inspect the scene of a car bombing in the western town of Fallujah on July 15. Five people were killed -- including the son of a senior Sunni Arab militiaman -- in two attacks on a town outside Fallujah.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Five people were killed, including the son of a senior Sunni Arab militiaman, in two attacks on Saturday in a town outside Fallujah, west of Baghdad, a police officer said.

Iraq government faces claims of prisoner abuse (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 09:08 PM PDT

In this Aug. 11, 2007 file photo, blindfolded prisoners are taken for questioning at the Iraqi National Police Detention Center in the Kazimiyah neighborhood of North Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi officials outraged by the abuse of prisoners at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison are dealing with a prison scandal of their own as allegations continue to surface about years of torture and mistreatment inside Iraq's own lockups. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)AP - Iraqi officials outraged by the abuse of prisoners at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison are trying to contain a scandal of their own as allegations continue to surface of mistreatment inside Iraqi jails.

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