2010年3月8日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Real Hurt Lockers in Iraq: Life is no movie (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:02 PM PST

FILE - In this March 1, 2010 file photo, Tech Sgt. Jeremy Phillips waits for his team members to prepare a detonation outside of Forward Operating Base Garry Owen on Monday in Maysan Province, Iraq. (AP Photo/Matt Ford) U.S. military's explosive experts are basking in their job's newfound fame after the Iraq war drama 'The Hurt Locker' took home the best picture prize at Sunday's Academy Awards in Hollywood. (AP Photo/Matt Ford)AP - American bomb disposal experts in Iraq say few people understood what they did.

In Iraq, the Methboub family waits – and copes (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:40 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Expectations of good news have rarely been higher in the poor Iraqi household of Karima Selman Methboub, whose son Ali is due in coming weeks to be released from prison after more than 1-1/2 years.

Top court to decide on anti-gay protests at military funerals (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 10:07 AM PST

Reuters - The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether constitutional free-speech rights protected anti-gay protests by members of a Kansas church at funerals for U.S. military members killed in Iraq.

Turnout for Iraq election solid at 62 percent (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 09:57 AM PST

Reuters - Turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election was 62 percent, higher than in last year's provincial ballot, despite attempts by Sunni Islamist insurgents to disrupt the vote with attacks that killed 39, officials said on Monday.

Years before US can judge Iraq success: general (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 09:30 AM PST

General Ray Odierno speaks to the press in Baghdad in 2009. The top US general in Iraq has said it could be years before the United States can gauge whether its long military campaign there had achieved any measure of success.(AFP/File/Arthur Macmillan)AFP - The top US general in Iraq said Monday it could be years before the United States can gauge whether its long military campaign there had achieved any measure of success.

Iraq election turnout down, likely months before new government (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:59 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi election workers began tallying votes from 47,000 polling stations across the country Monday, a day after the country pulled off a landmark vote despite dozens of scattered explosions that went off in Baghdad and in other parts of the country.

Britain won respect in Middle East over Iraq: Miliband (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 06:16 AM PST

The government's decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 earned it respect in the Middle East and it must not be scared of similar action in the future, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, pictured on March 5, said Monday.(AFP/File/Francisco Leong)AFP - Britain's decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 earned it respect in the Middle East and it must not be scared of similar action in the future, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday.

Odierno says US troop withdrawal plan on schedule (AP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:26 AM PST

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrives to speak at the Iraq Inquiry in London, Monday, March 8, 2010. The inquiry is Britain's third and widest-ranging examination of the Iraq conflict, which triggered huge protests and left 179 British troops dead before the country's forces withdrew from Iraq last year. The inquiry won't apportion blame or establish liability, but will offer recommendations later this year on how to prevent errors in the future. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - The top U.S. general in Iraq says the Iraqi military performed superbly on Sunday's mostly peaceful election day and that President Barack Obama's plan to remove American combat troops from that country by Sept. 1 is proceeding on schedule.

After Iraq's Elections, Who Will Lead the Country? (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:05 AM PST

Time.com - The election is over. But the counting -- and the dealing -- could go on for a while

'The Hurt Locker' rules on historic Oscars night (AFP)

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 04:22 AM PST

Film-maker Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman ever to win the Oscar for best director. Iraq war drama AFP - Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.

Iraq election: Purple fingers, but hard work ahead (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 02:50 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Throughout Iraq, fear gave way to defiance Sunday as voters, even in the most volatile areas, cast ballots in landmark parliamentary elections that militants tried their best to disrupt with dozens of explosions that shook Baghdad even before the polls opened.

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