2009年10月18日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqis say they want U.S. investment, strategic support (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:54 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BASRA, Iraq -- The tourist ship "Peace" was at anchor in the Shatt al Arab waterway but southern Iraq's business leaders were eager to explore new waters when Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, took the podium Friday and urged them to project positive energy instead of complaining about all the things that are wrong with Iraq.

Eight dead, 29 wounded in Baghdad bombings (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:25 PM PDT

A couple embrace as members of the Ohio Army National Guard 's 135th Military Police Company are welcomed home outside Kenston High School in Bainbridge Twp., Ohio on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. The unit spent the past year deployed in Baghdad, Iraq, where it conducted more than 800 combat patrols, provided convoy security and trained some 3,500 Iraqi police. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)Reuters - Two separate bombings in Baghdad's mainly Sunni Muslim Adhamiya district on Sunday killed a total of eight people and wounded 29, police said.

Wounded US troops return to Iraq to find closure (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 01:45 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, retired Staff Sgt. Luke Wilson, of Hermiston, Ore, relaxes on an armchair, believed to have belonged to Iraq's late dictator, Saddam Hussein, at al-Faw Palace, headquarters for the U.S. military command at Camp Victory outskirts Baghdad, Iraq. Wilson, who lost his left leg below the knee in an RPG attack in Baghdad on Aug. 4, 2004, returned to Iraq this week as part of 'Operation Proper Exit,' a program sponsored by the nonprofit Troops First Foundation and the USO, which is returning troops to the battlefield where they were injured. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - As America's military role in Iraq winds down, the U.S. is grappling with how to help some of the more than 30,000 troops injured in six years of war move ahead with their lives. One approach is to bring them back to the battlefields where they were injured.

Bomb kills 5 near Baghdad cafe, say police (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 12:22 PM PDT

A couple embrace as members of the Ohio Army National Guard 's 135th Military Police Company are welcomed home outside Kenston High School in Bainbridge Twp., Ohio on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. The unit spent the past year deployed in Baghdad, Iraq, where it conducted more than 800 combat patrols, provided convoy security and trained some 3,500 Iraqi police. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - A bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded on Sunday near a popular cafe in a largely Sunni district of Baghdad killing five people, Iraqi police said.

Six killed in Baghdad violence (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:52 AM PDT

A destroyed vehicle is towed away following a car bomb that detonated in Baghdad in September 2009. Shootings and bombings in and around Baghdad killed six people on Sunday, one of them a child, security officials said.(AFP/File/Khalil al-Murshidi)AFP - Shootings and bombings in and around Baghdad killed six people on Sunday, one of them a child, security officials said.

Iraq accuses neighbours of stealing archives (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 09:58 AM PDT

Smoke rises from Baghdad's Bab al-Muatham neighborhood in 2006. Iraq accused its neighbours of stealing vast sections of its national archives, including documents dating back centuries, after the 2003 US-led invasion of the country. Some 60 percent of the archives, were missing or had been damaged and destroyed as a result of water leaks and a fire at a storage centre in Bab al-Muatham.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraq on Sunday accused its neighbours of stealing vast sections of its national archives, including documents dating back centuries, after the 2003 US-led invasion of the country.

Leaving Iraq ends US mission veiled in ambivalence (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 08:27 AM PDT

This Sept. 24, 2009 photo shows Pfc. Reid Kelley of Mountainside, N.J., with Alfa company, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment in Baghdad, Iraq picking up his gear as his unit leaves Iraq. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - EDITOR'S NOTE — Since January, AP correspondent Hamza Hendawi has embedded at regular intervals with a U.S. infantry company in Baghdad to gauge how the military mission in Iraq is changing. Here, Hendawi accompanies the unit on its journey back to the United States.

Iraq cabinet approves BP-CNPC oil deal (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 05:27 AM PDT

An Iraqi oil worker adjusts some controls at an oil refinery in the southern Rumaila area in 2007. The Iraqi cabinet has approved a key deal with Britain's BP and China's CNPC International to almost triple production at a giant southern oilfield, an oil ministry spokesman said.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - The Iraqi cabinet approved a key deal with Britain's BP and China's CNPC International to almost triple production at a giant southern oilfield, an oil ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

Iraqi honey industry battling to regain its buzz (AFP)

Posted: 17 Oct 2009 11:59 PM PDT

An Iraqi beekeeper is seen attending to his bees at the College of Agriculture, western Baghdad. Honey production in Iraq went through difficult times in the past few years due to environmental challenges, such as water shortages, and security issues that limited access to the hives.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq's once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion.

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