2010年3月20日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Thousands rally to pull troops from 2 war zones (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 05:53 PM PDT

Henry Shoiket, 92, of Rutherford, N.J., joins other anti-war protesters in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, Saturday, March 20, 2010.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Thousands of protesters — many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama — marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.


Anti-war protesters take to streets, defy US indifference (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 04:24 PM PDT

Demonstrators march during an anti-war protest in Washington, DC. Thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets of the US capital Saturday, on the seventh anniversary of the US-led war in Iraq in a show of frustration widely ignored by the media and public.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)AFP - Thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets of the US capital Saturday, on the seventh anniversary of the US-led war in Iraq in a show of frustration widely ignored by the media and public.


Allawi inches ahead of Iraq PM in vote count: results (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 01:07 PM PDT

An Iraqi soldier stands guard in front of a poster of former premier Iyad Allawi in Baghdad. Allawi -- Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's main rival -- has inched ahead of the incumbent in the nationwide vote tally, according to updated results from Iraq's general election.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's main rival Iyad Allawi has inched ahead of the incumbent in the nationwide vote tally, updated results from Iraq's general election showed on Saturday.


Rival edges ahead of Iraq PM in overall vote count (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 10:01 AM PDT

Iraqi policemen stand guard in front of an election campaign poster for former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 20, 2010. A secular challenger to Iraq's prime minister has again edged ahead in parliamentary elections now that the vote count is nearly complete. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A secular challenger to Iraq's prime minister edged ahead Saturday in the overall vote count in parliamentary elections, while the prime minister held onto his province-by-province lead as the counting neared completion.


Allawi edges ahead of PM again in Iraq election (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 09:54 AM PDT

Iraqi challenger Iyad Allawi attends an interview with Reuters in Beirut, March 19, 2010. REUTERS/Jamal SaidiReuters - Secularist Iyad Allawi edged ahead of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday in a neck-and-neck election race that has laid bare the ethnic and sectarian divisions threatening Iraq's fragile stability.


Iraq and Afghanistan: America's invisible wars (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 07:05 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Standing in Continental Square in this southern Pennsylvania town in the early 1940s, it wouldn't have taken long to divine the subject foremost in the minds of the citizenry.
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