2009年7月30日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US hopeful about exit after a quiet July in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:38 PM PDT

The son of Monther al-Tamimi, mourns by his body outside a hospital in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Al-Tamimi was killed in a bomb blast in a building used by a Sunni backed political group. (AP Photo/Adam Hadei)AP - July is on track to be the least deadly month for American troops and one of the quietest for Iraqis since the war started, a decline in violence that has led the U.S. to consider stepping up its withdrawal plans just a month after pulling its combat forces back from Baghdad and other cities.

US adviser to Iraqi military urges early US exit (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 04:10 PM PDT

U.S. Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, center, speaks with troops from the 4th Brigade, 1st Armored Division's Advise and Assist Mission at COB Adder in Tallil in southern Iraq, Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Gates toured a base in southern Iraq Tuesday where U.S. and Iraqi troops sit side-by-side but he later sidestepped questions about whether American forces might stay beyond their 2012 departure date. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)AP - A U.S. Army adviser to the Iraqi military command in Baghdad argues in an internal memo that the U.S. should "declare victory and go home" next year, 16 months ahead of schedule.

British Iraq war inquiry will call Blair: chairman (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 01:05 PM PDT

Britain's then Prime Minister Tony Blair greets troops as he arrives in Basra, southern Iraq, in 2004. The head of an inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war vowed Thursday not to shy away from criticising government decisions as he opened a probe which will quiz key figures like Tony Blair.(AFP/POOL/File/Stefan Rousseau)AFP - The head of an inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war pledged Thursday not to shy away from criticising government decisions as he opened a probe that will quiz key figures such as Tony Blair.

Warship honors Marine who died protecting comrades (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:53 PM PDT

FILE - This undated family photo shows U.S. Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham, who died April 22, 2004, after sustaining a head injury from a shrapnel wound, April 14, 2004, in Iraq. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. A Navy destroyer will be christened in his honor Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009, at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. (AP Photo/The Wellsville Daily Reporter, courtesy Dunham family, File) NO SALESAP - Marines flushing out Iraqi insurgents after an ambush came upon a column of vehicles. A van with a father and son. A pickup truck. A tractor. A BMW with a couple of sheiks. And a Toyota Land Cruiser with four young men, all of them insurgents.

Iraq acknowledges deaths at Iran exile camp (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:53 PM PDT

Wounded protestors are transported to a hospital after clashes with Iraqi forces in Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad July 29, 2009 in this photo provided by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. REUTERS/National Council of Resistance of Iran/HandoutReuters - Iraq's government acknowledged on Thursday that seven Iranian exiles were killed when Iraqi forces took control of their camp this week north of Baghdad.

Iraq says 11 dead in Iran camp as Amnesty seeks probe (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:46 PM PDT

A picture released by the People's Mujahedeen Iranian opposition group allegedly shows Iraqi police beating protestors inside Camp Ashraf, July 28, 2009. Eleven residents of a camp housing Iran's main exiled opposition movement have died since Iraqi forces stormed the site, a local security official said on Thursday.(AFP/People's Mujahedeen/File)AFP - Eleven residents of a camp housing Iran's main exiled opposition movement have died since Iraqi forces stormed the site, a local Iraqi security official said on Thursday.

US providing care at Iranian camp in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 12:38 PM PDT

A picture released by the People's Mujahedeen Iranian opposition group allegedly shows Iraqi police beating protestors inside Camp Ashraf, July 28, 2009. Iraq has allowed US forces to provide medical care to Iranian opposition members injured when Iraqi troops stormed their camp near Baghdad, the State Department said Thursday.(AFP/People's Mujahedeen/File)AFP - Iraq has allowed US forces to provide medical care to Iranian opposition members injured when Iraqi troops stormed their camp near Baghdad, the State Department said Thursday.

Iraq bombings kill 11 (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 09:41 AM PDT

A policeman takes notes as he stands next to an injured man at a local hospital in the northeastern town of Baquba, 60 kms from Baghdad. Attacks across Iraq, including one against a political party's offices, left 11 dead Thursday, as a senior US army officer warned of politically-motivated violence in the coming months.(AFP)AFP - Attacks across Iraq, including one against a political party's offices, left 11 dead Thursday, as a senior US army officer warned of politically-motivated violence in the coming months.

Britain begins Iraq war inquiry (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 08:57 AM PDT

John Chilcot, the chairman of the Iraq Inquiry, outlines the terms of reference for the inquiry and explains the panel's approach to its work during a news conference to launch it at the QEII conference centre in London, Thursday, July 30, 2009. The head of a British inquiry into the Iraq war said Thursday he will call former Prime Minister Tony Blair to testify about the run-up to the conflict, but acknowledged it is unlikely that senior Bush administration officials would give evidence. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Britain launched its first sweeping inquiry into the unpopular Iraq war on Thursday — a potentially explosive national reckoning that will call ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair as a witness, and seek evidence from former White House staff.

CORRECTED: Kurd polls keep status quo, U.S. urges Iraq peace (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 08:21 AM PDT

Sir John Chilcot, the Chairman of the Iraq Inquiry, seen here addressing a news conference in London, vowed Thursday not to shy away from criticising government decisions as he opened a probe which will quiz key figures like Tony Blair.(AFP/POOL/Matt Dunham)Reuters - Opposition groups made a surprise gain in Iraqi Kurdistan's weekend elections, but ruling parties feuding with Arab leaders in Baghdad clung to power and are unlikely to end a standoff threatening Iraq's fragile calm.

CORRECTED: Gates, in Iraq, seeks to ease Kurd-Arab tensions (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 08:15 AM PDT

Sir John Chilcot, the Chairman of the Iraq Inquiry, seen here addressing a news conference in London, vowed Thursday not to shy away from criticising government decisions as he opened a probe which will quiz key figures like Tony Blair.(AFP/POOL/Matt Dunham)Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday urged Iraq's ethnic Kurds and majority Arabs to resolve their entrenched dispute over oil and land before a scheduled American troop withdrawal by 2012.

Bombs kill 11 people in Iraq: police (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 07:28 AM PDT

Reuters - Two bomb blasts killed 11 people in Iraq Thursday, reflecting the ongoing insurgent activity that defies overall security improvements and sows fears among some Iraqis about a return to bloodshed of the past.

Iraq fires head of state-owned oil company (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 07:28 AM PDT

An oil worker pictured at an oil field in the southern Rumaila region of Iraq, July 2007. The Iraqi government has fired the head of state-owned South Oil Company (SOC), who publicly criticised Baghdad's auctioning off of oil and gas fields to foreign energy giants, an oil ministry spokesman said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - The Iraqi government has fired the head of state-owned South Oil Company (SOC), who publicly criticised Baghdad's auctioning off of oil and gas fields to foreign energy giants, an oil ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

Eight killed in blast at Iraqi party office (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2009 06:36 AM PDT

A relative mourns over the body of a man killed in an explosion in Baquba, 60kms north-east of Baghdad, and brought to the morgue of a local hospital. Eight people were killed and 10 wounded on Thursday in the bomb attack on Sunni political party offices.(AFP)AFP - Eight people were killed and 10 wounded on Thursday in a bomb attack on the offices of a Sunni political party in the restive city of Baquba, north-east of Baghdad, police and medical officials said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,329 (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 06:11 PM PDT

AP - As of Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at least 4,329 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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