2009年9月9日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Truck bomb in north Iraq Kurdish village kills 19 (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:55 PM PDT

Reuters - A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into a Kurdish village in northern Iraq before dawn on Thursday, killing at least 19 villagers and wounding 13, police said.

Stormy Iraq-Syria talks on militants issue (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 01:54 PM PDT

Clockwise from left at table, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, sit at a table to discuss the recent Syria-Iraq political tensions, at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - The foreign ministers of Iraq and Syria had a heated exchange, trading accusations Wednesday in a failed attempt to resolve a deepening split over Iraqi claims that Syria is harboring Sunni militants behind a recent flareup in violence.

Iraqi reportedly seen alive after bombing still missing (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 12:43 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Shadia Abdulbaki survived a horrific bomb blast, but she's been lost ever since. Is she wandering the streets? Did she become an amnesiac? Did someone take her in? No one can say.

Feds scour bank records of retired Army colonel (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 12:00 PM PDT

AP - Federal investigators are searching for suspicious transactions in the personal bank records of a retired Army colonel who ran the contracting office in Baghdad during the early stages of Iraq's $125 billion reconstruction.

As violence ebbs, Baghdad revives a watery romance (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:23 AM PDT

This Aug. 18, 2009 photo shows a fishermen casting his net in the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq. During Baghdad's worst sectarian violence, the Tigris was something of an informal border, even a front line, between Sunnis on the west bank and Shiites on the other side. In those blood-soaked times, the killers threw the bodies of their victims in the river. But in their zeal to take advantage of a dramatic reduction in violence in Baghdad, Iraqis are again displaying their often-tested resilience, embracing the river like an old childhood friend. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Men in shorts splash in its murky brown waters or hop onto pleasure boats that blare sexy Iraqi pop songs. Lovers meet by its banks or take a short nighttime cruise, some even defying the rules of conservative Baghdad to steal a quick kiss in the dark.

Iraqi and US troops raid Baghdad district, kill 2 (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 08:52 AM PDT

Hassan Abdullah kneels in the blood-stained kitchen where two of his friends were killed in an overnight raid in southeastern Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. U.S.-backed Iraqi soldiers raided a home before dawn on Wednesday, killing two men inside and arresting an Iraqi soldier from an intelligence unit, police and a witness said. The U.S. and Iraqi militaries said they were looking into the report. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraqi and American soldiers came under fire from a house during a pre-dawn operation Wednesday in southeastern Baghdad, setting off a gunbattle that killed the two assailants, the U.S. military said.

Bomb kills at least 8 in Iraq's disputed Kirkuk (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 08:49 AM PDT

A resident watches Iraqi police secure the site of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, September 9, 2009. REUTERS/Ako RasheedReuters - A car bomb killed eight members of a single family on Wednesday in Kirkuk, the city at the heart of a bitter feud between Iraq's Arabs and minority Kurds.

Iranian exiles vent fury at US over Iraq attacks (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 08:03 AM PDT

AP - Iranian exiles camped outside the American Embassy in London say they've been on hunger strike for weeks to push the United States to protect their compatriots in Iraq.

Seven killed in Iraq car bomb blunder: police (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 07:45 AM PDT

US soldiers patrol an area in Kirkuk in 2007. Seven people, including a woman and a child, were killed when a car parked in the courtyard of a house exploded in the restive northern oil hub of Kirkuk.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Seven people, including a woman and a child, were killed on Wednesday when a vehicle being readied for use as a car bomb exploded in the restive northern oil hub of Kirkuk, police said.

Iraq's 'Garden of Eden' waterway facing catastrophe (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:46 AM PDT

An Iraqi boy carries a basket of fish caught in the Arabian Gulf in Faw, south the port city of Basra. Iraqis living alongside the ancient Shatt al-Arab waterway, the site local legend says of the Garden of Eden, face an environmental catastrophe because of massive dams built by neighbouring Iran.(AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)AFP - Iraqis living alongside the ancient Shatt al-Arab waterway, the site local legend says of the Garden of Eden, face an environmental catastrophe because of massive dams built by neighbouring Iran.

AP NewsBreak: State Dep't contractor electrocuted (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 07:07 PM PDT

AP - A State Department contractor apparently has been electrocuted while showering in Baghdad even as U.S. authorities in Iraq try to remedy wiring problems that have led to the deaths of American troops there.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,343 (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 05:52 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, at least 4,343 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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