2010年2月19日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Using ladder, vet rescued people from Texas office (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 03:46 PM PST

Robin Dehaven, an employee of Binswanger Glass, holds a ladder as he talks to a television crew, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, in Austin, Texas. Dehaven recounted the story of how he helped save five people from a burning building, using the ladder he's holding, after a pilot furious at the International Revenue Service slammed his plane into the building where about 200 IRS employees worked, killing himself and one other person. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - Robin De Haven was driving the company truck to a job when he saw something that didn't look right — a small plane, flying extremely low over a heavily congested area of Austin.

US: Post-vote period critical for Iraq (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 09:00 AM PST

An Iraqi policeman walks past a knocked down campaign poster for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his the State of Law Coalition in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. Ripping a campaign poster is punishable by a jail term of up to one year under a law that has been imposed for the first time for the nation's already highly charged parliamentary election next month. Experts believe the government ban was imposed to prevent opposition parties from tearing down Prime Minister Nouri-al-Maliki's campaign signs. (AP Photo/ Hadi MizbanAP - A senior U.S. military commander warned on Friday that the period after Iraq's upcoming national vote could be more dangerous than election day itself.

Curfew on election campaign in northern Iraqi province (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 08:31 AM PST

Supporters of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) stick an election campaign poster and a Kurdish flag on a car in Kirkuk. A curfew on campaigning was imposed in a province of northern Iraq that has become a fierce battleground for Kurdish votes in the run-up to the country's March 7 general election.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Electoral authorities on Friday imposed a curfew on campaigning in a northern Iraqi province that has become a fierce battleground for Kurdish votes ahead of the country's general election.

Iraqi prisoners on hunger strike at Basra jail (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 07:58 AM PST

An Iraqi policeman holds handcuffs inside a prison in Basra, 2004. All 600 detainees at a prison in Iraq's southern city of Basra have gone on hunger strike to protest conditions that are AFP - All 600 detainees at a prison in Iraq's southern city of Basra have gone on hunger strike to protest conditions that are "not fit for animals," a local politician said on Friday.

Iraq rejects call to abolish death penalty (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 06:48 AM PST

AP - Iraq has rejected calls to abolish or suspend capital punishment made during a review by the U.N.'s top human rights body.

Iraq war to be rebranded 'Operation New Dawn' (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 12:15 AM PST

A US Air Force plane is seen outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. President Barack Obama's administration plans to rebrand its military operation in Iraq AFP - President Barack Obama's administration plans to rebrand its military operation in Iraq "Operation New Dawn," beginning September 1, a Pentagon memorandum shows.

Iraq mission being renamed Operation New Dawn (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 06:22 PM PST

AP - The U.S. military mission in Iraq will soon be getting a new name.

Iraq War to Get Name Change After U.S. Combat Troops Withdraw (Bloomberg)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 05:42 PM PST

Bloomberg - Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The war in Iraq will get a new name after the last of U.S. combat troops withdraw in August, the Pentagon said, prompting criticism of “public relations tactics.”

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