2009年8月5日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Blast walls on major Baghdad streets to come down (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 03:24 PM PDT

FILE - This July 31, 2004 file photo shows men walking past a blast wall in central Baghdad, Iraq. Although the walls helped reduce violence, they are now unsightly, towering reminders for Baghdad residents that their riverside capital of leafy neighborhoods and palm-lined boulevards has turned into a prison-like city of shadows separating one community from another. Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, the spokesman for the city's operations command center, said the walls will be taken off major thoroughfares and secondary roads in the capital. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban, File)AP - The towering concrete blast walls that have both protected and suffocated Baghdad streets for the past two years will come down within 40 days, Iraq's government announced Wednesday.

Iraq's Assyrian Christians find temporary home in Kurdistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 02:43 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - AINKAWA, Iraq — For 35-year-old Rajo Qardaq Palander, a church security guard, the breaking point came last year, when insurgents demanded that he pay $20,000 or abandon his home in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood.

Eleven die in Iraq violence as would-be female bomber jailed (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:49 PM PDT

An man inspects a burnt vehicle at the site of a bomb blast in Ramadi, 100 kms (60 miles) west of Baghdad. Eleven people, including a woman, died in violence across Iraq on Wednesday as officials said a teenage girl has been jailed for trying to copy her father and brother and be a suicide bomber.(AFP/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Eleven people, including a woman, died in violence across Iraq on Wednesday as officials said a teenage girl has been jailed for trying to copy her father and brother and be a suicide bomber.

Iraqi's childhood memories solved pilot mystery: US senator (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:43 PM PDT

This undated US Navy handout photo released in 2002 shows Navy Capt. Michael AFP - An Iraqi Bedouin's dim childhood memories led US authorities to the long-sought remains of a US Navy pilot shot down over Iraq in 1991 during the first Gulf War, a US Senator said Wednesday.

Iraqi child witnessed missing Navy pilot's burial (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 10:50 AM PDT

FILE - This a photo of Michael Scott Speicher made aboard the carrier USS Saratoga in June 18, 1990 when he was promoted to Lt. Commander. Speicher, whose jet fighter went down Jan. 17, 1991 over Iraq, has been missing ever since. Officials said Sunday Aug. 2, 2009, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology has positively identified the remains of Captain Michael 'Scott' Speicher, whose disappearance has bedeviled investigators since his jet was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the war (AP Photo/Barry Hull, File) NO SALESAP - A U.S. senator says the key to finding the remains of a pilot missing for nearly 20 years turned out to be an Iraqi nomad who as a child witnessed the pilot's desert burial.

Iraq: $2,000 for Shiite-Sunni couples who marry (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 10:33 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday July 19, 2009, Muhanad Talib, left, and his new bride Samma Nasir, are seen in their home in the Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad, Iraq. Muhanad, a Sunni, and Samma, a Shiite, are one of more than 1,700 Sunni-Shiite couples who accepted $2,000 from the Iraqi government in an effort to heal the country's sectarian divide. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Muhanad Talib, a Sunni Muslim, married his Shiite bride because she was a "suitable woman" for him. It also didn't hurt that their vows made them eligible for a $2,000 payout from the government.

Iraq jails teenage would-be suicide bomber (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 10:21 AM PDT

Iraqi teenager Raniya Ibrahim during an interview with AFP while under police custody in Baquba, some 60 kms (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, in 2008. The 16-year-old would-be female suicide bomber was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison by a juvenile criminal court, the Iraqi Justice Ministry spokeswoman told AFP.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - A Iraqi teenage girl caught moments before blowing herself up in a suicide bomb attack has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, a Justice Ministry official told AFP on Wednesday.

Campaigners urge protection for Iranian dissidents in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 10:05 AM PDT

A picture released by the People's Mujahedeen shows Iraqi security forces clashing with a member of the Iranian opposition-in-exile at Camp Ashraf on July 28, 2009, north of Baghdad in the Diyala province. Human rights campaigners and an Iranian opposition group on Wednesday called on the international community to ensure the protection of Iranian dissidents in Iraq.(AFP/HO/File/People's Mujahedeen)AFP - Human rights campaigners and an Iranian opposition group on Wednesday called on the international community to ensure the protection of Iranian dissidents in Iraq.

US transfers control of southern Iraq bases (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 09:00 AM PDT

Members of the Iraqi Coastal Defence at the Umm Qasr Naval base in southern Iraq in 2004. The US army has transferred control of two bases in Iraq's southern Basra province to local security forces, the American military said in a statement on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Nawfal Hashim)AFP - The US army has transferred control of two bases in Iraq's southern Basra province to local security forces, the American military said in a statement on Wednesday.

Baghdad blast walls to come down (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 08:19 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman stands guard in front of painted blast walls at a checkpoint in Baghdad January 18, 2009. REUTERS/Bassim ShatiReuters - The blast walls that have divided Baghdad communities and turned its streets into canyons of concrete since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 will be removed within 40 days, Iraq said on Wednesday.

Gunmen kidnap 11 pilgrims on way to Iraq festival (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 02:30 AM PDT

A pilgrim holds her child as they arrive at the Shiite holy city of Karbala on August 4 to take part in a religious festival marking the anniversary of the birth of Imam Mohammed al-Mahdi. Gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped 11 Iraqi pilgrims travelling in a minibus on their way to the holy Shiite city of Karbala for a religious festival, a police officer said.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped 11 Iraqi pilgrims travelling in a minibus on their way to the holy Shiite city of Karbala for a religious festival, a police officer said.

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