2009年8月17日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US commander in Iraq wants troops in disputed land (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 01:41 PM PDT

Firemen put out a fire in a burning vehicle after a bomb attack in Karrada District, central Baghdad August 16, 2009. A string of bombings is stirring growing unease among Iraqis as the government, confident it can secure the country against violence while U.S. troops pull back, insists on removing rows of blast walls from Baghdad's streets. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenAP - America's top commander in Iraq said Monday he wants to deploy U.S. soldiers alongside Iraqi and Kurdish troops in a disputed swath of northern territory following a series of horrific bombings by insurgents hoping to stoke an Arab-Kurdish conflict.

Army captain accused of accepting bribes in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 12:57 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. Army captain has been charged with accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes while he was stationed in Iraq to steer more than $500,000 in contracts.

U.S. general wants to move troops to northern Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 12:55 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The top U.S. general in Iraq wants to place more American soldiers along the fault line between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs, two groups who've appeared on the verge of civil war at times over the past year.

US may work with Arab, Kurd forces in north Iraq: Odierno (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 12:31 PM PDT

Kurdish soldiers with the Iraqi army are pictured training on the outskirts of Arbil in northern Iraq in 2007. The United States is discussing arrangements that could see its troops work alongside Iraqi and Kurdish forces in disputed areas of northern Iraq, the senior American commander has said.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - The United States is discussing arrangements that could see its troops work alongside Iraqi and Kurdish forces in disputed areas of northern Iraq, the senior American commander said on Monday.

Iraqi PM set for key security talks in Syria (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 12:30 PM PDT

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, pictured in July 2009, is to visit Damascus for talks on security on Tuesday after the top US general in Iraq said Syria's role in allowing fighters to enter the country remained a concern.(AFP/File/Chris Kleponis)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is to visit Damascus for talks on security on Tuesday after the top US general in Iraq said Syria's role in allowing fighters to enter the country remained a concern.

Eight killed in Iraq attacks (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 10:01 AM PDT

Medics treat Iraqi soldiers after they were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) that targeted their patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk. At least eight people were killed, including two policemen, in three separate attacks on Monday in northern and central Iraq, police said.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - At least eight people were killed, including two policemen, in three separate attacks on Monday in northern and central Iraq, police said.

Torture and execution of Iraqi gays on rise: HRW (AFP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 07:24 AM PDT

AFP - Iraqi militias are increasingly torturing and executing men suspected of homosexuality, but the authorities in Baghdad are doing nothing to stop the violence, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

Obama criticizes a Cold War approach to defense (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:29 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Phoenix, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama chastised the defense industry and a freespending Congress on Monday for wasting tax dollars "with doctrine and weapons better suited to fight the Soviets on the plains of Europe than insurgents in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan."

Iraq cabinet approves vote on U.S. security pact (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 04:33 AM PDT

A policeman inspects a damaged restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. Two bombs hidden in a plastic bags near a falafel stand exploded simultaneously shortly on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 25 others, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)Reuters - Iraq's cabinet has approved a bill paving the way for a referendum on a bilateral security pact signed last year between Washington and Baghdad, the government spokesman said in a statement on Monday.

Human Rights Watch: Iraqi gays tortured and killed (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 03:19 AM PDT

AP - Militiamen are torturing and killing gay Iraqi men with impunity in a systematic campaign that has spread from Baghdad to several other cities, a prominent human rights group said in a report.

Iraqi gays face murder, torture campaign: HRW (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 01:04 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi militias are conducting a campaign of torture and murder against men suspected of homosexual activity, a leading rights group said on Monday, adding that government security forces may be involved.

US troops go back to basics with Iraq forces (AFP)

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 10:41 PM PDT

US soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment train Iraqi policemen in the northern city of Kirkuk. Since their withdrawal from Iraqi cities and towns, US troops have a new mission: training Iraqi security forces. But the task at hand is harder than thought -- some trainees don't even know how to hold a weapon.(AFP/File/Prashant Rao)AFP - On the outskirts of Iraq's ethnically divided northern oil hub of Kirkuk, US army Lieutenant Christopher McElrath was winding up a training session with local police when it became apparent a little extra instruction was needed.

Turkmen join Arabs to stop vote on Iraq oil province (AFP)

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 09:04 PM PDT

Flared gas burns at the Kirkuk oil field in June. Kurds, reckoned to form the majority of the province's 900,000 population, are eager to press on with the vote in the hope of removing direct control of the oil rich area from Baghdad and including it in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Arab and Turkmen politicians in Iraq's northern Kirkuk province have banded together to try to block an impending referendum on the future status of the disputed oil-rich region.

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

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 05:37 PM PDT

AP - As of Sunday, Aug. 16, 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.

Iraqi journalists push for press freedom -- carefully (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 11:27 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Journalist Ali al Asasdi gets to report that corruption exists in Iraqi government — he just can't say who's corrupt.

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