2010年5月7日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Marine sent to Calif. after conviction overturned (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 01:36 PM PDT

AP - Jailed Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III has been returned to Camp Pendleton in California where he will remain in confinement until the outcome of his case is decided.

Babylon ruins torn between preservation and profit (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 10:15 AM PDT

In this May 1, 2010 photo, guards are seen at a reproduction of the Ishtar gate in the ancient city of Babylon in southern Iraq. A U.S.-funded program to restore the ruins of Iraq's ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over keeping the site authentic or making money off it. In recognition of the perilous condition of the site, a two-year project by the New York-based World Monument Fund to draw up a site plan is now looking into directly to restoring the city's famed Ishtar gate and a 2,500-year-old temple.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - A U.S.-funded program to restore the ruins of Iraq's ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over whether the priority should be preserving the site or making money off it.

'Big ideas' key to US surge success in Iraq: Petraeus (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 09:22 AM PDT

The US troop surge succeeded in Iraq because the army embraced new ideas about waging war against insurgents, focusing on winning the trust of local people, said top commander General David Petraeus, pictured last month(AFP/Getty Images/File/Astrid Riecken)AFP - The US troop surge succeeded in Iraq because the army embraced new ideas about waging war against insurgents, focusing on winning the trust of local people, top commander General David Petraeus said.

Iraq vote winner asserts right to form government (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 05:29 AM PDT

Former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi looks on during his meeting with Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, not pictured, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, April 29, 2010. The front-runner in Iraq's recent parliamentary elections called for the formation of an internationally supervised caretaker government to prevent the country from sliding into violence, even as a double suicide blast killed seven in south Baghdad.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)AP - The leader of the top vote-getting coalition in Iraq's inconclusive March 7 elections insisted his bloc still has the right to form the next government despite an alliance forged this week between two rival Shiite groups.

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