2010年2月11日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi panel bars 2 Sunni politicians from election (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:36 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, an Iraqi man walks past posters with an symbolic X across for the Iraqi lawmaker Dhafir al-Ani, a Sunni politician who has been barred from running in the election because of alleged ties to the Baath party, in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq. The banner in Arabic reads, 'No for the return of the Baathists.' An Iraqi appeals panel has issued a final ruling barring two prominent Sunni politicians from running in the March elections. Ali al-Lami, director of a Shiite-led panel that has blacklisted hundreds of candidates, said Thursday he was told of the final order against Sunni lawmakers Salah al-Mutlak and Dhafir al-Ani.(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)AP - An Iraqi panel issued a final ruling Thursday to bar two prominent Sunni politicians from running in next month's elections, a move that is likely to raise tensions between the Shiite-led government and Sunnis who claim they are being politically undermined.

Iraq allows 28 banned election candidates to stand (AFP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 01:34 PM PST

An Iraqi man checks election campaign posters printed on his printing press in central Baghdad. Iraqi judges on Thursday ruled that 28 candidates banned from the March 7 general election for alleged links to the regime of executed dictator Saddam Hussein could stand after all.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraqi judges on Thursday ruled that 28 candidates banned from the March 7 general election for alleged links to the regime of executed dictator Saddam Hussein could stand after all.

(AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 11:11 AM PST

AP - Iraqi panel issues final ruling barring 2 prominent Sunni politicians from running in election.

Iraq expels 250 former Blackwater guards (AFP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 07:27 AM PST

File photo shows a sign marking the entrance to Blackwater's training facility in Mount Carroll, Illinois. The Iraqi interior minister said he had ordered 250 ex-employees of American security firm Blackwater, whose guards were charged with killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad, to leave the country.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AFP - The Iraqi interior minister said on Thursday he had expelled 250 ex-employees of the American security firm Blackwater, whose guards were charged with killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad.

Kidnapping of American in Iraq sparked by faltering reconciliation talks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The kidnapping of an Iraqi-American military contractor in Baghdad appears to be the work of a splinter group in response to a breakdown in political reconciliation talks in Iraq rather than a return to the high-profile kidnappings of Westerners, according to US military officials and analysts.

Around 450 Kurdish troops in joint US-Iraqi operations (AFP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:10 AM PST

Kurdish soldiers with the Iraqi army are pictured training on the outskirts of Arbil in northern Iraq in 2007. Around 450 Kurdish troops are working with Iraqi and US soldiers in Iraq's disputed zones, with half of them deployed in the volatileNineveh province, a military spokesman said .(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Around 450 Kurdish troops are working with Iraqi and US soldiers in Iraq's disputed zones, with half of them deployed in the volatile Nineveh province, a military spokesman said Thursday.

US military: American soldier dies in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 12:19 AM PST

Hamdiyah al-Hussaini, left, and Faraj al-Haydari, right, chairman of the Independent High Electoral Commission are seen during a news conference in Baghdad, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. Iraqi forces will protect the ballot centers while the American troops will stay away from the centers but they can be called on if we need them, officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in Iraq of injuries unrelated to combat.

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