2010年3月6日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Under threat, Iraqis vote in crucial election (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PST

Election campaign posters cover a damaged building in Ramadi, about 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, March 6, 2010. REUTERS/Saad ShalashReuters - Iraqis vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election that will help to determine whether their shaky democracy can end sectarian conflict and defeat insurgents who are trying to plunge Iraq back into broader bloodshed.


Key players in Iraq's parliamentary elections (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:32 PM PST

AP - A look at the key political players in Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections:

A look at the major coalitions in Iraq's election (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:31 PM PST

AP - A look at the major alliances, coalitions expected to take part in Iraq's parliamentary elections:

A look at this Sunday's election in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:28 PM PST

AP - Some basic information about Iraq's parliamentary elections on Sunday:

Timeline of events in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:28 PM PST

AP - A timeline of key events in Iraq, beginning with the U.S.-led invasion to the March 7 parliamentary elections:

French politician brings Paris glamour to Iraq vote (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:25 AM PST

French member of the European parliament and former justice minister, Rachida Dati, plays with an Iraqi orphan girl during a visit to St. Raphael hospital in central Baghdad. Dati, the first Muslim woman to hold a top job in the French government, brought a touch of Parisian glamour on Saturday to Iraq's elections with a stroll along the Tigris river in Baghdad.(AFP/Joseph Eid)AFP - Rachida Dati, the first Muslim woman to hold a top job in the French government, brought a touch of Parisian glamour on Saturday to Iraq's elections with a stroll along the Tigris river in Baghdad.


Upstart Iraqi bloc seeks 'peaceful uprising' in Kurdistan (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:21 AM PST

Iraqi Kurdish men walk past framed pictures of Goran (Change) leader Nusherwan Mustafa in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah. After a surprisingly strong showing in Kurdish elections in July, Goran -- AFP - In March 1991, Kurdish rebels rose up against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in what is known in the region simply as "the uprising". Almost 19 years later to the day, a new political force in the region is hoping for a "peaceful uprising" of its own.


Deadly car bomb rocks Iraq holy city on election eve (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:17 AM PST

An Iraqi soldier stands guard as a man inspects the wreckage of a bus at the site of an explosion in Najaf. A car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed three people in Iraq's holiest city on Saturday on the eve of the country's parliamentary election which Al-Qaeda has threatened to wreck.(AFP/Qassem Zein)AFP - A car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed three people in Iraq's holiest city on Saturday on the eve of the country's parliamentary election which Al-Qaeda has threatened to wreck.


Iraq's vote key test for a democracy in progress (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:00 AM PST

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene after a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq, Saturday, March 6, 2010 on the eve of key national elections. A group of Iranian and Iraqi pilgrims were waiting to board the bus after visiting a famous shrine when the blast occurred about 100 yards (meters) away killing at least three people, including two Iranians, according to officials. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - Billed as a key test of Iraq's nascent democracy, Iraqis fear Sunday's parliamentary election will lead to a protracted period of uncertainty as the winners and losers try to cobble together a new government — even as American forces prepare to go home.


Election security 'an all-Iraq show': US general (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 05:52 AM PST

An Iraqi girl walks past a soldier securing the entrance to a polling centre in central Baghdad. A top US military officer insisted that a massive security operation for the next day's general election was AFP - A top US military officer insisted on Saturday that a massive security operation for the next day's general election was "an all-Iraq show" requiring little American manpower.


British PM faces Iraq inquiry backlash (AFP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 04:04 AM PST

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrives at the Chilcott Inquiry into the Iraq War in central London. Brown faced a backlash Saturday over his testimony to a public inquiry into the Iraq war as ex-military chiefs questioned his claims that the army was adequately funded.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced a backlash Saturday over his testimony to a public inquiry into the Iraq war as ex-military chiefs questioned his claims that the army was adequately funded.


Bomb kills 4 near Shi'ite shrine before Iraq poll (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 02:07 AM PST

Iraqi policemen examine the remains of a vehicle used in a bomb attack in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, March 6, 2010. REUTERS/Ali Abu ShishReuters - A car bomb killed four Iranian pilgrims near Iraq's holiest Shi'ite shrine on Saturday, a day before a parliamentary election that Sunni Islamist militants have vowed to wreck.


Bomb in Iraq shrine city kills 3 injures 54: police (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 11:35 PM PST

File picture shows an operator watching security camera feeds in the central shrine city of Najaf. A powerful car bomb near a Shiite shrine in Najaf on Saturday killed two Iranian pilgrims and an Iraqi and injured at least 54 people, police and medical officials said.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - A powerful car bomb near a Shiite shrine in Iraq's holy city of Najaf on Saturday killed two Iranian pilgrims and an Iraqi and injured at least 54 people, police and medical officials said.


Iraqis abroad cast ballots in homeland's election (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 06:30 PM PST

An Iraqi woman casts her vote at a polling center at the start of a three-day Iraqi balloting, in Amman, Jordan, Friday, March, 5, 2010. Iraqis flocked into polling stations across the Jordanian capital and three other provinces at the start of a three-day balloting organized by Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission in Jordan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Abu Ghosh)AP - Thousands of Iraqis living abroad lined up at polling stations to cast ballots in their homeland's crucial parliamentary elections Friday, a constituency Iraq's Sunni Arab minority hope will boost their showing.


Ill. judge won't toss torture suit naming Rumsfeld (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:08 PM PST

AP - A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm.

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