2010年9月29日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Investment a "success story" in Iraqi Kurdistan (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 06:06 PM PDT

Reuters - While most Iraqis struggle under the detritus of a seven-year war, the people of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan can frolic in a public pool, ride an elevated cable car over freshly planted parkland or escape stifling heat in a new ice skating hall.

Political impasse deters Iraqis from going home: U.N. (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 10:31 AM PDT

Iraqi navy vessels are seen during a ceremony marking the graduation of 170 navy cadets at Umm Qasr's port near Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, September 26, 2010. REUTERS/Atef HassanReuters - The flow of displaced Iraqis returning to their homes after years of war has slowed considerably since a March election as politicians wrangle over a new government, U.N. officials said Wednesday.


Lack of Iraq govt hurting security and refugee returns (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 10:08 AM PDT

A banner reading AFP - A spike in unrest accompanying Iraq's failure to form a government is scaring people from passing on much-needed intelligence and deterring refugees from returning home, a general and diplomats said Wednesday.


Lack of Iraq govt hampering intel gathering: US general (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 09:01 AM PDT

US soldiers inspect the damage caused by a car bomb attack at the entrance of a recruiting centre for the New Iraqi Army in Baghdad in 2004. Failure to form an Iraqi government nearly seven months after elections has hampered the efforts of security forces to gather intelligence on insurgents, a US general said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Marwan Naamani)AFP - Failure to form an Iraqi government nearly seven months after elections has hampered the efforts of security forces to gather intelligence on insurgents, a US general said on Wednesday.


Iraq's Allawi asks Syria to press Iran not to meddle (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 05:37 AM PDT

Former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi answers questions during a press conference in May 2010. Allawi said he had asked Syria to persuade Iran to keep out of his protracted battle for the premiership with incumbent Nuri al-Maliki.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - Former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi said he had asked Syria on Wednesday to persuade Iran to keep out of his protracted battle for the premiership with incumbent Nuri al-Maliki.


Iraqi PM candidate in Syria for talks (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 04:19 AM PDT

Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi speaks to reporters after a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A leading candidate in the contested race to lead Iraq's new government insisted during a visit to Syria on Wednesday that he would not take part in any coalition headed by his rival, the current prime minister. Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi narrowly defeated Prime Minister Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated bloc in the March elections, but no single group has pulled together enough support to name a new prime minister and start assembling a government. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP - A leading candidate in the contested race to lead Iraq's new government insisted during a visit to Syria on Wednesday that he would not take part in any coalition headed by his rival, the current prime minister.


Iraqi Shiite militia hints of Iran's hand in south (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 03:37 AM PDT

BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - In this undated image made from a video posted on an insurgent website, a Humvee is struck by an explosion in an incident that Shiite militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq claims was an attack on U.S. troops on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 in Basra, Iraq. Nearly four minutes of shaky, hand-held video clips show roadside bombs hitting U.S. convoys, a battery of Katyousha rockets and a soldier who appeared to be downed by sniper fire. And in the left-hand corner is the raised-rifle emblem of a Shiite militia considered to have ties with Iran. (AP Photo) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS VIDEOAP - Nearly four minutes of shaky, hand-held video clips show roadside bombs hitting U.S. convoys, a battery of Katyusha rockets and a soldier who appeared to be downed by sniper fire.


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