2010年2月28日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Fate of key Iraqi force up in air ahead of election (AFP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 02:03 PM PST

A US army sergeant gives a briefing to US troops, Iraqi policemen, soldiers and Kurdish peshmerga fighters prior to conducting a combined security force patrols in Rizgari, a village four kms southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, on February 25. The fate of a US-backed security force comprising Arabs and Kurds in Iraq's tense north is to be decided after the upcoming elections.(AFP/File/Arthur Macmillan)AFP - The fate of a US-backed security force comprising Arabs and Kurds in Iraq's tense north is to be decided after next Sunday's elections, only two months after it was set up to avert a civil war.

Americans, Kurds, Arabs join forces on north Iraq frontline (AFP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 02:01 PM PST

A US army sergeant gives a briefing to US troops, Iraqi policemen, soldiers and Kurdish peshmerga fighters prior to conducting a combined security force patrols in Rizgari, a village four kms southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, on February 25. The fate of a US-backed security force comprising Arabs and Kurds in Iraq's tense north is to be decided after the upcoming elections.(AFP/File/Arthur Macmillan)AFP - A US commander strides down a street in a Kurdish village in northern Iraq, heading a mixed squad of American troops, Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters.

Iraqi PM calls pre-vote candidate ban legitimate (AP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 01:56 PM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. Iraq's Prime Minister is defending a decision to ban hundreds of candidates from the upcoming election, saying that it would not hurt Sunni turnout for next Sunday's vote. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)AP - Iraq's prime minister Sunday defended a ban of candidates with alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's former regime, calling it a legitimate decision that would not affect Sunni turnout at the polls.

Iraq's Maliki sees coalition with Shi'ite rivals (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 10:59 AM PST

Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki acknowledged on Sunday that he would probably need partners to gain a majority after the election on March 7, and said he was ready to join with Kurdish or other Shi'ite groups.

Iraqi Christians protest slayings, Pope concerned (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 09:33 AM PST

Nuns hold an olive branches as they take part in a demonstration in Mosul, about 390km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, February 28, 2010. Over 1,000 Christians took part in the protest to condemn violence against their community and their places of worship. REUTERS/Khalid al-MousulyReuters - At least 1,000 minority Christians, many holding olive branches, marched in protest near the restive city of Mosul on Sunday to urge the Iraqi government to act decisively after a series of killings.

Iraq says sacking of Saddam officers would be illegal (AFP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 09:29 AM PST

Iraqi Prime Minister Nur al-Maliki speaks at a rally ahead of a March 7 general election, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad on February 27. Iraq on Sunday branded as illegal an influential committee's recommendation that hundreds of military officers said to be loyal to executed dictator Saddam Hussein be fired.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - Iraq on Sunday branded as illegal an influential committee's recommendation that hundreds of military officers said to be loyal to executed dictator Saddam Hussein be fired.

Christians hold demos over north Iraq killings (AFP)

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 06:31 AM PST

Iraqi Christians protest in Baghdad to denounce violence against Christians in Mosul. Dozens of Christians demonstrated to vent their anger over poor security in the wake of a series of killings of Christians in northern Iraq.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Hundreds of Christians demonstrated in Mosul on Sunday to vent their anger over poor security after a series of killings of Christians in the northern Iraqi city.

Iraq Kurds again likely to be kingmakers post-poll (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 09:05 PM PST

Reuters - Tensions between Iraq's Kurds and Arabs may one day lead to armed conflict but, after an election in March, Arab parties will be vying with each other to court Kurdish allies expected to emerge as powerful kingmakers.

Depressed Blair 'wanted to quit after Iraq war': report (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 07:05 PM PST

File photo of former British ambassador to the United Nations Sir Jeremy Greenstock. Political journalist Andrew Rawnsley writes in a new book that Greenstock knew that his AFP - Tony Blair was so depressed after the Iraq war that the then British premier told Gordon Brown he would quit the following summer, only to renege on his pledge, a newspaper reported Sunday.

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