2010年8月9日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Traffic police re-arm amid fresh Baghdad attacks (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:09 PM PDT

An Iraqi traffic policeman controls the traffic in Baghdad. Iraqi traffic police began to arm themselves with high-powered weapons for the first time in two years as an escalation in attacks against the force saw another officer killed on Monday.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi traffic police began to arm themselves with high-powered weapons for the first time in two years as an escalation in attacks against the force saw another officer killed on Monday.

US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:20 PM PDT

AP - Army Pvt. Francisco J. Guardado-Ramirez

Iraq attacks likely to increase during Ramadan, says US (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:41 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The US expects attacks in Iraq to continue to spike as the holy month of Ramadan begins this week, a top American general warned on Monday after explosions in the southern city of Basra resulted in one of the deadliest weekends in months.

Iraq taps German Sidka as coach ahead of Asia Cup (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 09:27 AM PDT

German coach Wolfgang Sidka, seen here in 2001, on Monday signed on as manager of the Iraqi national football team ahead of its defence of its 2007 Asia Cup championship in Qatar next year.(AFP/File/Adam Jan)AFP - German coach Wolfgang Sidka on Monday signed on as manager of the Iraqi national football team ahead of its defence of its 2007 Asia Cup championship in Qatar next year.

Iraq arms traffic cops against insurgent attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 08:29 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq is arming some of its traffic police in the capital with AK-47 assault rifles after two dozen of the "easy targets" have been killed and wounded recently in militant assaults, authorities said.

Bomb kills 2 traffic cops at Baghdad precinct (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 05:58 AM PDT

Iraqi traffic police gather at a bombing scene at their precinct in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Officials say a rush-hour bombing at a western Baghdad police precinct has killed traffic cops and a civilian. Monday's bombing is the latest targeting Baghdad's traffic police force, which is trying to restore normalcy to the capital's streets after years of violence. The government blames al-Qaida for the attacks. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Officials say a rush-hour bombing at a western Baghdad police precinct has killed two traffic cops and one civilian.

Two killed, including police, in Baghdad blast (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:28 AM PDT

Iraqi soldiers inspect burnt vehicles following a blast at a parking lot in the Sinak district of Baghdad on August 8. Iraqi traffic police began arming themselves with high-powered weapons for the first time in two years as an escalation in attacks against the force saw another officer killed on Monday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Two people were killed, including a traffic policeman, in a roadside bomb at a police station in western Baghdad on Monday, an interior ministry official said.

US commander says Iraqis ready to handle security (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 07:20 PM PDT

A U.S. Army soldier stands at the scene of a blast in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol west of Baghdad Sunday and killed several people, most of them civilians standing in line outside a post office to collect a monthly state stipend for some of the country's poorest, police officials said. Violence across Iraq has spiked in the past month as the U.S. moved ahead with a major drawdown of its troops to be completed by the end of August, when only 50,000 will remain in the country.(AP Photo)AP - Iraq's military is ready and able to take over security operations as the United States ends it combat role and prepares for a major troop withdrawal, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Sunday.

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