2009年8月12日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Major problems cited in Iraq interpreter contract (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 06:05 PM PDT

AP - A company with a $4.6 billion contract to supply U.S. forces in Iraq with Arabic-speaking translators received a scathing review on Wednesday from government officials who described tens of millions of dollars in questionable costs and poor management.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,332 (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 05:59 PM PDT

AP - As of Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, at least 4,332 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

TV station fined for misquoting official in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 12:53 PM PDT

AP - An Iraqi court has fined a television channel $87,000 after ruling that it slandered a military official by misquoting him, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Six killed in Iraq attacks (AFP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 11:58 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman walks past a municipality worker cleaning the site of a car bombing as a boy pushes a cart loaded with debris in Baghdad's al-Amin district. Six people were killed, four of them police officers, and eight wounded in separate attacks in Iraq's tense northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul on Wednesday, police said.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Six people were killed, four of them police officers, and eight wounded in separate attacks in Iraq's tense northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul on Wednesday, police said.

Iraqi PM to visit Syria for security talks (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 11:22 AM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, July 24, 2009, U.S. Army soldiers from D Co., 252nd Combined Arms Battalion, 30th Brigade Combat and Iraqi army soldiers are seen before going in a patrol in a village south of Baghdad, Iraq. Out of the cities and letting the Iraqi security forces take the lead, U.S. troops are facing a new challenge: finding things to do. (AP Photo/ Deb Riechmann)AP - The Iraqi government insisted that it's not up to the United States to negotiate over Iraq's security with Syria as a delegation from the Obama administration arrived Wednesday in Damascus.

Swine flu cases climb among US soldiers in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 10:42 AM PDT

AP - There have been 67 confirmed cases of swine flu among American troops in Iraq with dozens more suspected, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, making U.S. soldiers the single largest group in the country to come down with the virus.

Iraq book ban raises fears of free speech clampdown (AFP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 09:07 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman browses books displayed at Baghdad's International Book Fair in the Iraqi capital in March 2009. Moves by Iraq's government to control the flow of information both in print and online have raised fears of a crackdown on free speech reminiscent of the regime of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Moves by Iraq's government to control the flow of information both in print and online have raised fears of a crackdown on free speech reminiscent of the regime of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein.

Iran reformists seize on prisoner abuses (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 10:54 AM PDT

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani responds to journalists' questions after his meeting with Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers June 29, 2009. REUTERS/Louafi LarbiAP - Iran's top opposition leader said Wednesday that the abuse and death of protesters detained after the disputed presidential elections shows the need for "deep change" in the country, in the most sweeping call for reform of the system to date.

Play ball! Iraqi team gets new donated gear (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 07:47 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The Iraqi national baseball team's only bat, an aluminum Louisville Slugger, finally can take a rest after four years of daily swings.

Iraq aims to ban dual citizenship for top officials (AFP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 07:44 AM PDT

An Iraqi flag in Baghdad's Sadr City, 2008. Iraq's cabinet has approved a bill to require all top government and security officials to renounce any foreign citizenships they hold or to step down, the government spokesman has said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's cabinet has approved a bill to require all top government and security officials to renounce any foreign citizenships they hold or to step down, the government spokesman said on Wednesday.

Iraq's Bombs of August: A Return to the Bad Old Days? (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 02:05 AM PDT

People inspect a damaged bus after a car bomb explosion in the neighborhood of Shaab in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009. A double truck bombing Monday in Mosul and blasts in Baghdad brought the Iraqi death toll to more than 100 in four days, the worst spasm of violence the country has suffered since U.S. forces left the cities. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)Time.com - Even as the northern city of Mosul struggles with al-Qaeda, Baghdad is buffeted by violence and fears that politics is taking over where religion left off

Kurdish mag sparks wrath by urging Jews to return (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 10:51 PM PDT

Dawood Baghestani, Iraqi Kurdish editor-in-chief of AFP - A new magazine in Iraq's Kurdistan region has caused furore among conservative Muslims with a rousing call for Jews to leave Israel -- and come back to Iraq.

Gonzales says he would 'do some things over' (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 09:12 PM PDT

Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales speaks during an interview in Lubbock, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009. Gonzales will be teaching a Political Science course this fall at Texas Tech University. Gonzales said Tuesday that any criminal investigation into whether CIA interrogations after 9/11 crossed legal lines could have a chilling effect on U.S. anti-terrorism efforts. (AP Photo/Zach Long)AP - Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he wishes he could "do some things over" from his years with the Bush administration, citing a memo he wrote that human rights groups contended led to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.

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