2009年11月26日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US troops in Iraq reflect amid Thanksgiving celebrations (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 11:06 AM PST

A US soldiers enjoys his Thanksgiving diner at the Tarmiyah army base, just north of Baghdad. Specialist Nathan Deliefde was hard at work since eight in the morning on Thursday, preparing a Thanksgiving feast for 170 US soldiers that many hope will be the last one they eat in Iraq.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Specialist Nathan Deliefde was hard at work since eight in the morning on Thursday, preparing a Thanksgiving feast for 170 US soldiers that many hope will be the last one they eat in Iraq.

Iraq attacks kill seven, hit Christian sites (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:53 AM PST

An Iraqi man stands close to upturned tables and chairs outside a restaurant following twin blasts in the southern city of Karbala, 110 kilometres (69 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, on November 25. A spate of attacks in Iraq killed seven people and struck a church and a convent on Thursday, with one bomb at a busy market claiming three lives as shoppers stocked up for a Muslim holiday.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - A spate of attacks in Iraq killed seven people and struck a church and a convent on Thursday, with one bomb at a busy market claiming three lives as shoppers stocked up for a Muslim holiday.

Iraqi PM: Election dispute poses risks to security (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:07 AM PST

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in the heavily protected Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. Al-Maliki warned that a dispute over an election law that could delay a national vote was a threat to security, but said there was no need for American troops to delay their timetable for withdrawal from the country. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraq's prime minister on Thursday vowed there will be no delay in the withdrawal of U.S. troops despite an Iraqi political dispute that is expected to force a January vote to be postponed.

Blair's stance 'hardened' after Bush talks: probe (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 08:36 AM PST

Then US President George W. Bush and then British Prime Minister Tony Blair wave upon Blair's arrival to Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas in April 2002. Blair may have swung behind US calls for regime change in Iraq after meeting president Bush at his Texas ranch, a former top diplomat told an inquiry into the 2003 war.(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)AFP - Britain's Tony Blair may have swung behind US calls for regime change in Iraq after meeting President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch in 2002, a top diplomat told an inquiry into the war on Thursday.

Ex-UK envoy: US focused on Iraq hours after 9/11 (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 08:28 AM PST

Christopher Meyer, former British Ambassador to the U. S., arrives for the Iraq war inquiry in London, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. Meyer served as then-Prime Minister Tony Blair's envoy to Washington, and is due to testify before the Iraq war inquiry about Britain's relations with the United States in the run-up to the conflict, in the most sweeping inquiry by any nation involved in the Iraq war.(AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - Tony Blair could have delayed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and ensured better plans were in place for its chaotic aftermath by taking a tougher stance with President George W. Bush, Britain's ex-ambassador to Washington said Thursday.

Deal near on Iraq vote law, second veto less likely (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:51 AM PST

Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi attends the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Sharm el-Sheikh July 15, 2009. REUTERS/Khaled El Fiqi/PoolReuters - A preliminary agreement has been reached over Iraq's election law which the country's Sunni Arab vice president is now less likely to veto for a second time, his office said on Thursday.

Blair presses Iraq over press freedoms (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 03:35 AM PST

Former British premier Tony Blair, seen here on November 18, has pressed Iraqi leaders to uphold media freedoms which Britain AFP - Tony Blair on Thursday pressed Iraqi leaders to uphold media freedoms which Britain "fought for," after a British newspaper's correspondent was fined for reporting criticism of Iraq's prime minister.

Joint drills help Iraq Kurd, Arab police thaw ties (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:47 AM PST

Reuters - Amid the simulated gunfire, rioting and panicked cries of a NATO training program, Kurdish and Arab policemen are taking slow steps toward ending an enmity that threatens to tip Iraq into civil war.

Iraqi journalists worry about media crackdown (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 01:14 AM PST

Reuters - Lawsuits, rules that allow the government to shut TV stations that promote violence and other signs of creeping censorship are raising fears of a crackdown on Iraq's often partisan media ahead of an election next year.

Night-time theater returns to Iraq as courage grows (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 12:14 AM PST

Reuters - As the clock strikes 8 p.m. Baghdad time, the curtains sweep apart at the Iraqi National Theater in what actors hope is a return to regular night-time performances 6-1/2 years after the U.S. invasion.

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