2009年12月1日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US reassures Iraq ahead of Afghan deployment (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:53 PM PST

An Iraqi boy plays a game with a US soldier during a visit to the home of a village elder in the locality of Khan Bani Saad, 10 kms south of the town of Baquba in June 2009. President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday sought to allay fears in Baghdad that a dramatic upping of the war effort in Afghanistan would come at the expense of its Iraq commitment.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday sought to allay fears in Baghdad that a dramatic upping of the war effort in Afghanistan would come at the expense of its Iraq commitment.

Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:10 PM PST

Reuters - An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris on Tuesday.

Iraq closes one of its quietest post-invasion months (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:51 PM PST

An Iraqi boy plays a game with a US soldier during a visit to the home of a village elder in the locality of Khan Bani Saad, 10 kms south of the town of Baquba in June 2009. President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday sought to allay fears in Baghdad that a dramatic upping of the war effort in Afghanistan would come at the expense of its Iraq commitment.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — From the rickety upper deck of the small tour boat cruising the Tigris River, it was easy to imagine Baghdad as a peaceful city again.

Crocker: Change in Afghan strategy essential (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 03:51 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2008 file photo, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker answers a question during an interview with the Associated Press in Baghdad. Crocker tells Army officers sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and a change in strategy there are essential. But he says it's not just a matter of how many additional forces are sent to Afghanistan, but how they are used. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)AP - The former U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Tuesday that even with 30,000 more U.S. troops heading to Afghanistan, a change in strategy is essential if the U.S. wants to succeed after eight years of war.

Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 11:33 AM PST

AP - _October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

Iraqi shoe-thrower finds out what it was like (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 11:03 AM PST

A protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush. Television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi was in Paris to promote his campaign for the AP - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.

Iraqi journalist turns tables on shoe thrower (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 10:10 AM PST

Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi who hurled his shoes at then US president George W. Bush gives a press conference in Paris. A protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe Tuesday at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush.(AFP/Pierre Verdy)AFP - A protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe Tuesday at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush.

US senator floats 'war bonds' idea for Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:42 PM PST

US lawmakers wondered aloud Tuesday how to pay for a new AFP - A special tax? War bonds like those that fueled the US military in World War II? A spending freeze? US lawmakers wondered aloud Tuesday how to pay for a new "surge" in Afghanistan.

Iraq monthly death toll lowest since US invasion (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 09:05 AM PST

An Iraqi woman grieves over her son's coffin as his body is collected from a hospital morgue in Baquba. November was the least bloody month in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion, despite grim predictions of a rise in violence ahead of elections next year.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - November was the least bloody month in Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003, official figures showed on Tuesday, despite grim predictions of a rise in violence ahead of elections next year.

Iraq's Basra lifts ban on booze (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 09:00 AM PST

An Iraqi boy plays a game with a US soldier during a visit to the home of a village elder in the locality of Khan Bani Saad, 10 kms south of the town of Baquba in June 2009. President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday sought to allay fears in Baghdad that a dramatic upping of the war effort in Afghanistan would come at the expense of its Iraq commitment.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - Officials in the southern Iraqi province of Basra have lifted a four-month-old ban on alcohol in a move hailed as an affirmation of personal freedoms in the country's second-largest city, a provincial spokesman said Tuesday.

Iraqi kidnappers abandon govt talks (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 07:26 AM PST

An image taken from a videotape broadcast by Al-Arabiya shows British hostage Peter Moore who was kidnapped from the Iraqi finance ministry in 2007. The radical Shiite group that kidnapped five Britons in Baghdad more than two years ago says t has broken off talks with Iraq's government over integration into the political process.(AFP/AL-ARABIYA/File)AFP - The radical Shiite group that kidnapped five Britons in Baghdad more than two years ago said on Tuesday it had broken off talks with Iraq's government over integration into the political process.

Nostalgia, hope as Baghdad's passenger boats return (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 03:55 AM PST

Reuters - The passenger boats that have returned to Iraq's Tigris River after years of war are shabby and the water polluted, but for many they are a reminder of happier times and a sign of a better future.

Iraq sees alarming rise in cancers, deformed babies (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:57 AM PST

Reuters - The guns are gradually falling silent in Iraq as a fragile stability takes hold, turning the spotlight on a stealthier killer likely to stalk Iraqis for years to come.

Iraq November death toll lowest since 2003 ministries (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 12:04 AM PST

An Iraqi police officer stands next to a shrapnel damaged police vehicle in the town of Mussayib. A total of 122 people died as a result of violence across Iraq last month, the lowest toll since the US-led invasion of 2003, official data showed on Tuesday(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - A total of 122 people died as a result of violence across Iraq last month, the lowest toll since the US-led invasion of 2003, official data showed on Tuesday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,367 (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 06:28 PM PST

AP - As of Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, at least 4,367 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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