2010年1月15日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Rarely used flying bomb strikes new targets in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 12:47 PM PST

This photograph taken from a helicopter on November 5, 2009 in Kandahar shows a US Army vehicle burning after it was hit by an IED. Four US troops and a British soldier have been killed in Afghanistan, officials said Monday, the first reported fatalities of 2010 after a record number of foreign deaths in the conflict last year.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — U.S. troops stationed at an outpost in southern Iraq heard a chilling whistle, and then a 60-pound airborne bomb punched through a concrete blast wall and sent shrapnel flying, wounding three Americans.


Iraq's electoral commission bars 500 candidates (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 10:20 PM PST

Iraq's former prime minister Ayad Allawi speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. The former prime minister of Iraq says the recent move to bar certain political parties from the March vote amounts to intimidation. Allawi, who served as interim prime minister from mid-2004 to early 2005, said in an interview with The Associated Press that the De-Baathification process designed to root out supporters of Saddam Hussein's regime has become politicized. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraq's electoral commission on Thursday barred 500 candidates from running in March's parliamentary election, including a prominent Sunni lawmaker, in a decision that is sure to deepen Iraq's sectarian divides.


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