2010年3月5日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

As U.S. prepares to leave after 7 years, Iraq's future uncertain (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:11 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — When the Bush administration invaded Iraq seven years ago, it pledged to leave behind a democracy that would be a model for the entire Middle East. Instead, it now appears that the United States will leave behind a big question mark.

Al-Qaeda threatens to kill Iraqis who vote (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:45 PM PST

Iraqi Shiite Muslims hold posters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his slain father Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr (C) as they attend Friday prayers in Baghdad's Shiite bastion of Sadr City. Al-Qaeda in Iraq on Friday threatened to kill people who vote in the war-torn nation's election and imposed a self-declared curfew during polling hours when millions are to cast ballots.(AFP/Joseph Eid)AFP - Al-Qaeda in Iraq on Friday threatened to kill people who vote in the war-torn nation's election and imposed a self-declared curfew during polling hours when millions are to cast ballots.

Iraq election: In Syria, disillusioned refugees trudge to the polls (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:41 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - As Iraq gears up for Sunday's election, a major litmus test in the country's nascent democracy, many Iraqi expatriates here are disillusioned with the process. But a fair number headed to the polls anyway during a three-day voting window that began Friday.

Brown blames US over Iraq reconstruction errors (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:38 PM PST

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrives at Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, Friday March 5, 2010, to give evidence at the Iraq inquiry in London, which is investigating the circumstances surrounding British involvement in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted Friday the decision to invade Iraq was justified, but told a major inquiry into the war that the United States dismissed warnings of chaos and violence once Saddam Hussein was toppled.

Iraqis abroad cast ballots in homeland's election (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:32 PM PST

An Iraqi woman casts her vote at a polling center at the start of a three-day Iraqi balloting, in Amman, Jordan, Friday, March, 5, 2010. Iraqis flocked into polling stations across the Jordanian capital and three other provinces at the start of a three-day balloting organized by Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission in Jordan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Abu Ghosh)AP - Thousands of Iraqis living abroad lined up at polling stations to cast ballots in their homeland's crucial parliamentary elections Friday, a constituency Iraq's Sunni Arab minority hope will boost their showing.

Iraq's Sunnis fear election could spark violence (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:21 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2010 file photo, mourners carry the coffins of Hussein Majid, his pregnant wife and their six children for burial in the Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Behind the March 7, 2010 election is a fear among Iraqis that the brutal sectarian violence of past years may return with the withdrawal of U.S. forces who have acted as a buffer. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)AP - They're back, on street corners in places Sunnis had thought were safe again: the Shiite militiamen who drove them from their homes in a bloody campaign that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war.

Al-Qaeda declares Iraq 'curfew' to thwart polls: SITE (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 11:34 AM PST

Iraqi Shiite Muslims hold posters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his slain father Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr (C) as they attend Friday prayers in Baghdad's Shiite bastion of Sadr City. Al-Qaeda in Iraq on Friday threatened to kill people who vote in the war-torn nation's election and imposed a self-declared curfew during polling hours when millions are to cast ballots.(AFP/Joseph Eid)AFP - Al-Qaeda in Iraq has declared a nationwide "curfew" to try to stop Sunday's elections, warning Iraqis they risked death if they voted, the SITE monitoring agency said.

British PM insists Iraq war was 'right decision' (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 11:00 AM PST

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, in central London after giving evidence at the Iraq war inquiry.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended his role in the 2003 Iraq war Friday, telling a public inquiry it was "the right decision" and rejecting claims he denied funds for the military fight.

British PM Brown tells inquiry Iraq war was right (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 10:12 AM PST

A British soldier takes up position before the start of the handover ceremony outside Basra's airport December 16, 2007. REUTERS/Atef HassanReuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told an official inquiry into the Iraq War on Friday that joining the 2003 U.S.-led invasion had been the right decision and denied he had left the military short of funding.

Shadow of Saddam hangs over Iraq polls (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 09:29 AM PST

Saddam Hussein was executed more than three years ago but the dictator's shadow hangs over Iraq's election, with hundreds of candidates barred over alleged links to his outlawed Baath Party. At the centre of it all is Ali al-Lami, executive director of the Justice and Accountability Committee which has barred around 500 candidates from the polls. Controversially, he himself is running in the poll.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Saddam Hussein was executed more than three years ago but the dictator's shadow hangs over Iraq's election, with hundreds of candidates barred over alleged links to his outlawed Baath Party.

Iraq politicians send singers to woo weary Iraqi voters (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 08:57 AM PST

Iraqi men wave thir national flag as they ride at the back of a truck during an election campaign rally in Baghdad. Iraq's politicians, fearing that voters have wearied of speech-making that often proves to be little more than hot air, have hired a slew of singers to woo them.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq's politicians, fearing that voters have wearied of speech-making that often proves to be little more than hot air, have hired a slew of singers to woo them.

Iraq war was 'right decision', says Brown (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:32 AM PST

Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrives at the Chilcott Inquiry into the Iraq war in central London. Brown has defended his role in the 2003 Iraq war, telling a public inquiry it was AFP - Britain's backing for the US-led invasion of Iraq was "the right decision... for the right reasons," Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday told an inquiry into the 2003 conflict.

Three Nepali security guards arrested in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:17 AM PST

An Iraqi soldier guards a checkpoint in Baghdad, 2007. Three Nepali security guards were arrested after firing their weapons as they partied in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Three Nepali security guards were arrested after firing their weapons as they partied in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, an Iraqi security official told AFP on Friday.

Iraqis begin to vote in Syria and other countries (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 11:42 PM PST

AP - Iraqis living abroad have began casting ballots in their homeland's crucial parliamentary elections.

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