2009年10月10日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqis face tough times, starting over in America (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 02:09 PM PDT

This Aug. 30, 2009 photo shows Saif Alnasseri, center, his daughter Sarah Alnasseri, 3, wife Zeinab Alrubaye, left, and mother Layla Alshawi, right, gather together to break their fast during Ramadan at their Plainfield, N.J. home. This is the first Ramadan the family will celebrate in the United States. 'Every morning we wake up and ask ourselves, 'Did we make the right decision?' In Iraq, financially we were living the good life, but we were in danger,' Alnasseri said. Saif was a pharmacist and Iraqi translator in Baghdad, and is now a pharmacist technician. (AP Photo/Sarah Simonis)AP - Her mansion in Iraq was bombed, her medical career and future in her beloved country dashed the day she found a white envelope on her car windshield. Inside was a single bullet. Wassan Yassin was marked for death.

Authorities in Iraq's holy Shiite city ban alcohol (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 01:10 PM PDT

AP - Local Iraqi authorities have outlawed alcohol in the province of Najaf, home to the holiest Shiite city, saying it contradicts the principles of Islam.

Iraq director pleads for post-war film backing (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 12:43 PM PDT

Iraqi director Mohamed al-Daradji, pictured in 2008, says a lack of government support is threatening his country's nascent post-war film industry, crucial to eroding a culture of violence.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Gries)AFP - Iraqi director Mohamed al-Daradji has pleaded for his government?s support for the country?s nascent post-war film industry, which he says is important in helping to end the culture of violence.

An Iraqi's trek from Sadr City to Monterey, Calif. (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:15 AM PDT

This July 7, 2009 photo shows Iraqi refugee Raid Shawket in his apartment in Kent, Wash., near Seattle. Shawket, who used to own an art gallery and a gift shop in Baghdad, is, along with many other Iraqi refugees living in the United States, facing the hardship of unemployment. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - On one of his first days in America, Hussein Albayati visited the Statue of Liberty.

Iraqis take to streets to protest government (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:05 AM PDT

Iraqi women chant slogans during a demonstration organized by the Iraqi constitutional party in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. Hundreds of Iraqis demonstrated throughout Iraq in response of the call by Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to adopt the open list in the next parliamentary elections, and for improved public services, revealing growing discontent among Iraqis with the pace of reconstruction more than six years after the U.S.-led invasion.. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Hundreds took to the streets Saturday throughout Iraq to demand open elections and improved public services, revealing a growing discontent among Iraqis that is overshadowing concerns about the ability of Iraqi forces to take over from withdrawing American troops.

Captured insurgent in Iraq: `I will fight again' (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 08:50 AM PDT

This Oct. 7, 2009 photo shows Mohammed Abdullah al-Obeid, speaking during an interview with the Associated Press in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. The story told by Al-Obeid shows how insurgent networks manage to recruit unlikely fighters across the Islamic world for Iraq. He told his family he was going on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Instead, the second-year college student packed a vinyl travel bag and left home in Saudi Arabia for a trip that would take him on a smuggling route across the Syrian border and into the heart of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. (AP Photo)AP - He told his family he was going on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Iraqis protest against controversial voting system (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 07:58 AM PDT

Iraqis shout slogans during a demonstration against a plan by MPs to adopt a closed voting system during the upcoming general elections at Firdos Square in Baghdad. A closed voting system would list parties contesting the election without disclosing the individuals vying to take up seats in parliament.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - More than 1,000 demonstrators took to the streets across Iraq on Saturday against plans to enact a controversial closed voting system which does not name candidates standing for office.

Iraq holy Shiite city of Najaf bans alcohol (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 07:57 AM PDT

An Iraqi Shiite man distributes coffee for free to pilgrims in Najaf, central Iraq. Councillors in the country's most revered holy Shiite city have banned the sale and consumption of alcohol throughout the province, saying its use was incompatible with Islam.(AFP/File/Joseph Eid)AFP - Councillors in Iraq's most revered holy Shiite city of Najaf on Saturday banned the sale and consumption of alcohol throughout the province, saying its use was incompatible with Islam.

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