2010年3月29日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Marine's dad ordered to pay protesters' court fees (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, May 19, 2006 picture, Sara Phelps holds signs during a protest in Shumway, Ill. by followers of the Rev. Fred Phelps, who claims soldiers have died because they fought for a country that condones homosexuality. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday, March 8, 2010 to consider whether the protesters' message, no matter how provocative and upsetting, is protected by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, that guarantees freedom of speech. (AP Photo/James A. Finley)AP - The father of a Marine killed in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters was ordered to pay the protesters' appeal costs, his lawyers said Monday.

Iraqi panel wants to bar 4 elected on winning list (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:07 PM PDT

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 27, 2010. Allawi said he is willing to work with anyone including the man to whom he just delivered a stunning upset one day after election results showed him with a razor-thin lead over prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A committee that vets candidates for ties to Saddam Hussein's regime is recommending four people elected to parliament from the winning list of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi be disqualified, an official on the committee said Monday. The challenge risks deepening Iraq's sectarian tensions.

Iraqi commission moves to disqualify winning candidates (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:01 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Six winning candidates in Iraq's parliamentary elections will be stripped of their votes and lose their seats — which would cost secular politician Ayad Allawi's bloc its narrow victory — if a federal court upholds a broad purge of candidates who are suspected of past involvement with the late dictator Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party, Iraqi officials said Monday.

Iraq panel says to appeal six election results (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:04 AM PDT

Officials register the serial numbers on locks used for parliamentary election ballot boxes at a counting centre in Baghdad March 18, 2010. REUTERS/Saad ShalashReuters - Six candidates who won seats in Iraq's parliament should have been barred from running due to alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, a panel said on Tuesday, raising new uncertainty about March 7 election results.

Bombs in Iraq holy city kill five, wound 64 (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:18 AM PDT

Residents inspect a blood-stained and damaged vehicle after a bomb attack in Baghdad March 29, 2010. A bomb attached to a car killed one person in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police said. REUTERS/Ahmed MalikReuters - Two car bombs struck the Iraqi city of Kerbala Monday, killing five people and wounding 64 others, authorities said.

Twin car bombs kill five in Iraqi holy city (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:16 AM PDT

Map locating the Shiite shrine city of Karbala where twin blasts caused by car bombs have killed at least five people, medical officials and witnesses say.(AFP Graphics)AFP - Twin blasts caused by car bombs rocked Iraq's holy Shiite shrine city of Karbala on Monday, killing at least five people, medical officials and witnesses said.

Commission to examine level of contractors in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:57 AM PDT

Iraqis inspect the scene of a bomb attack in central Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 29, 2010. A pair of car bombs went off in the holy city of Karbala. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)AP - The independent Commission on Wartime Contracting wants to know whether American contractors in Iraq are adequately reducing the number of employees in the country as U.S. troops are withdrawn.

Oud maker labors in secret on Baghdad rooftop (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 09:01 PM PDT

In this picture taken Feb. 20, 2010, musician Osama Karim plays an oud in Baghdad, Iraq. The oud's angst-filled tunes define Iraq's music, the same way the Tigris and Euphrates rivers define its landscape. But nowadays few in the country play or make the oud, a pear-shaped, deep-voiced cousin of the lute. (AP Photo/Matt Ford)AP - In a tiny workshop on the roof of his home in a Baghdad slum, Farhan Hassan works in secret, lovingly curving wood and tightening strings to make his ouds — a traditional Arabic instrument.

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