2010年2月16日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US general accuses Iraqi politicians of links to Iran (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:47 PM PST

US Gen. Raymond Odierno speaks during ceremony at the al-Faw Palace in Baghdad in January 2010. The US commander in Iraq on Tuesday accused two Iraqi politicians at the center of a dispute over blacklisting electoral candidates of having ties to an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The US commander in Iraq on Tuesday accused two Iraqi politicians at the center of a dispute over blacklisting electoral candidates of having ties to an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

US says Iraqi politicians linked to Iran (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:17 PM PST

An Iraqi man passes an election campaign poster for former prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari of the National Reform Movement reading in Arabic 'No room for Baath in Iraq' in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. The U.S. military has warned of a possible escalation in violence ahead of Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The top American commander in Iraq said Tuesday that the U.S. has "direct intelligence" that two senior Iraqi officials in charge of keeping Saddam Hussein loyalists out of the Baghdad government have ties to Iran.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,376 (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:08 PM PST

AP - As of Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, at least 4,376 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq training for threats surrounding elections (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 12:55 PM PST

An Iraqi Army officer hunches over a computer screen, looking at a map of Baghdad and poring over ground intelligence for potential risks at an air base in Taji camp north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. The officers rushed through a test run of how they will monitor security during the March 7 vote as candidates ramped up political rhetoric in the already highly-charged campaign season. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - From bridge bombings and sabotaged electricity grids to mass casualties, Iraqi soldiers are training to respond to worst-case election day attacks.

US troops at lowest level since Iraq invasion (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:50 AM PST

Members of the newly-minted Combined Security Force, which includes Iraqi, Kurdish and American security forces, stand in formation as colored smoke fills the air at a graduation ceremony in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - The number of American soldiers in Iraq has dropped below 100,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion in a clear signal the U.S. is wrapping up its nearly seven-year war to meet a deadline for leaving the country, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

West wants end to torture, honor killings in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:31 AM PST

Reuters - Western powers pressed Iraq on Tuesday to clean up its human rights record by investigating allegations of torture, halting honor killings of women and abolishing the death penalty.

Iraq govt condemns Sadrist MP's anti-Sunni comments (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST

The Iraqi government condemned the comments of one of radical anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's senior MPs, Baha al-Araji seen here in 2007, who said Sunnis had been plotting against Shiites since the beginning of Islam.(AFP/Pool/File/Wathiq Khuzaie)AFP - The Iraqi government condemned on Tuesday the comments of one of radical anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's senior MPs, who said Sunnis had been plotting against Shiites since the beginning of Islam.

Iraq has top terror risk, Thai danger up: ranking (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:57 AM PST

Iraqi policemen work at the scene of a bomb attack in the holy city of Kerbala, about 80 km south of Baghdad, February 5, 2010. Iraq is the country most at risk from terrorist attacks for the second straight year. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed/FilesReuters - Iraq is the country most at risk from terrorist attacks for the second straight year, according to a ranking by global analysts Maplecroft, while Thailand has joined the nine countries most in danger for the first time.

US tells Iraq to improve prisons, stamp out abuse (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 05:54 AM PST

AP - In a U.N. debate, the United States has urged the Iraqi government to improve its poor prison conditions and to investigate allegations of detainee abuse.

Three Christians killed in north Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:01 AM PST

A US and an Iraqi soldier man a checkpoint in Mosul, 2009. A Christian was killed in the restive city of Mosul, the third in as many days, as community leaders warned of rising violence against the minority ahead of Iraq's March 7 general election.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A Christian was killed in the restive city of Mosul on Tuesday, the third in as many days, as community leaders warned of rising violence against the minority ahead of Iraq's March 7 general election.

Iraq's European allies call for halt to death penalty (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:57 AM PST

Iraqis visit detained relatives in the Taji prison, north of Baghdad, 2009. Britain, France and Italy called on Iraq to halt use of the death penalty, expressing concern at a growth in the number of executions in the past two years.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Britain, France and Italy on Tuesday called on Iraq to halt use of the death penalty, expressing concern at a growth in the number of executions in the past two years.

Facing death, freed Iraq detainees may fight again (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 01:17 AM PST

Reuters - Many Iraqis released by U.S. forces after being detained for suspected links to Sunni insurgents have been killed by tribes seeking revenge or are being driven back into the arms of al Qaeda.

Iraq football stars aim for new partnership as MPs (AFP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 11:03 PM PST

Former Iraqi international footballer Karim Saddam poses for a picture during an interview with AFP in Baghdad. Former national football star, Saddam is a Shiite and supported by the Iraqi National Alliance of leading Shiite religious party the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council and radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's anti-US movement.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Once they linked up on the football pitch in one of Iraq's most fabled forward partnerships, taking their native country to its first and only World Cup finals.

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