2010年8月3日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Austria probes diary linked to Haider (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:53 PM PDT

** FILE ** In this April 18, 2004 file picture, Austrian right-wing politician and Governor of the province of Carinthia Joerg Haider, left, hands over presents to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, near Tripoli, Libya. Austrian authorities said Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, they are probing the authenticity of a diary that reportedly contains details about alleged money flows between the country's late far-right politician Joerg Haider and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, as well as with Saddam Hussein and his sons. (AP Photo/Gert Eggenberger, File)AP - Austrian prosecutors said Tuesday they were investigating after a respected weekly newspaper published excerpts of what it claimed was a diary suggesting there were transfers of money from Moammar Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein to late far-right politician Joerg Haider's inner circle.

Iraq: Car bomb kills 15 south of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:04 PM PDT

An Iraqi police officer uses a bomb detector at a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Two bombings and a drive-by shooting killed eight people Monday, a reminder of Iraq's ongoing instability on a day when President Barack Obama planned to outline progress toward the impending end of U.S. military operations in the country.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A car bomb ripped through an outdoor market Tuesday in a mainly Shiite city southeast of Baghdad in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 23 people nationwide, officials said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,413 (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 01:27 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, at least 4,413 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Haider's millions came from Libya, Iraq: media reports (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 12:34 PM PDT

Millions in secret Liechtenstein accounts, links to Saddam Hussein and Moamer Kadhafi, and an explosive political diary: the latest saga surrounding deceased Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, pictured in 2005, reads like a thriller.(AFP/DDP/File/Torsten Silz)AFP - Millions in secret Liechtenstein accounts, links to Saddam Hussein and Moamer Kadhafi, and an explosive political diary: the latest saga surrounding deceased Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider reads like a thriller.

Explosions kill 12 and wound 55 in Iraqi city of Kut (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 12:11 PM PDT

Millions in secret Liechtenstein accounts, links to Saddam Hussein and Moamer Kadhafi, and an explosive political diary: the latest saga surrounding deceased Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, pictured in 2004, reads like a thriller.(AFP/File/Joe Klamar)Reuters - Two bombs exploded in the usually quiet southern city of Kut in Iraq's Wasit province on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding 55, a security source said.

42 killed in Iraq attacks as Qaeda plants flag (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 11:18 AM PDT

Iraqi police impose extra security measures at a checkpoint in Baghdad. Twin car bombs in south Iraq killed 33 people on Tuesday while Al-Qaeda fighters hoisted their flag having shot dead five police in Baghdad, a day after the US vowed no delays to a major troop pullout.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Twin car bombs in south Iraq killed 33 people on Tuesday while Al-Qaeda fighters hoisted their flag having shot dead five police in Baghdad, a day after the US vowed no delays to a major troop pullout.

Departing US troops pack millions of items in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 11:03 AM PDT

In this July 6, 2010 photo, U.S. military Humvees are ready to be shipped out of Iraq at a staging yard at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq. Everything from helicopters to printer cartridges are being wrapped and stamped and shipped out of Iraq in one of the most monumental withdrawal operations the American military has ever carried out as U.S. forces flow out of the country. The move is reversing, over the course of months, a U.S. military presence that built up over seven years and dug in so deep it once seemed immovable. More than 400 bases are being closed down or handed over to the Iraqi military, some closer to small towns with elaborate dining facilities serving tacos and crab legs and gyms with rows of treadmills. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Everything from helicopters to printer cartridges is being wrapped and stamped and shipped out of Iraq. U.S. military bases that once resembled small towns have transformed into a cross between giant post offices and Office Depots.

FIFA gives Iraq one year to resolve turmoil (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 09:51 AM PDT

Iraqi Football Association (IFA) president Hussein Said attends a meeting to elect the new IFA board in the northern city of Arbil in July 2010. World football's governing body FIFA on Tuesday gave Iraqi football chiefs a one year deadline to settle their differences after July's elections to the Iraqi Football Association fell into disarray.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - World football's governing body FIFA on Tuesday gave Iraqi football chiefs a one year deadline to settle their differences after July's elections to the Iraqi Football Association fell into disarray.

(AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 09:39 AM PDT

AP - Iraqi officials say blasts at outdoor market south of Baghdad kill at least 10, wound 30

30 killed, 80 wounded in Iraq twin car bombs: medic (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 09:36 AM PDT

Iraqi police impose extra security measures at a checkpoint in Baghdad. Twin car bombs in south Iraq killed 30 people Tuesday while Al-Qaeda fighters shot dead five policemen in Baghdad and planted their flag, a day after the US pledged no delays to its withdrawal timetable.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Two near-simultaneous car bombs in the southern Iraqi city of Kut on Tuesday killed 30 people and wounded 80, a medical official said, giving a new toll.

K-9 PTSD? Some vets say dogs stressed by war, too (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 01:32 PM PDT

AP - Gina was a playful 2-year-old German shepherd when she went to Iraq as a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog with the military, conducting door-to-door searches and witnessing all sorts of noisy explosions.

Iraqis fear renewed violence as U.S. disengages (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 07:16 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama says Washington will fulfill its pledge to halt combat operations in Iraq by the end of this month, but many Iraqis fear that U.S. disengagement could portend surge in violence.

Nine killed as Qaeda fighters plant flag in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:55 AM PDT

An Iraqi municipality employee cleans a blood stained public garden, where al-Qaeda fighters killed five policemen at a Baghdad checkpoint. A traffic policeman and three soldiers were also killed in the capital, raising concerns that Iraq's security may be deteriorating after the government said more people died in violence in July than in any month since May 2008.(AFP/Khalil al-Murshidi)AFP - Al-Qaeda fighters killed five policemen at a Baghdad checkpoint on Tuesday and planted the black flag of the terror network's front group in Iraq, an interior ministry official said.

Former Saddam official sentenced to death (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2010 03:46 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman rides in a boat as she goes out fishing early morning in marshland near Karbala, south of Baghdad. A senior official in the Baath Party of now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death for the draining of the country's marshlands in the 1990s, the Iraqi court that tried him said.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - A senior official in the Baath Party of now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death for the draining of the country's marshlands in the 1990s, the Iraqi court that tried him said on Tuesday.

Iraqi mothers take up arms in county's wild west (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 09:43 PM PDT

27-year-old Umm Omar holds a rifle, as her son sits in her lap, at their house in Ramadi, capital of the western province of Anbar, one Iraq's most violent regions. She is among a growing number of young mothers who have learned to use a weapon to fend off insurgents targeting the families of civil servants and security personnel.(AFP/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Sporting a long blue dress and white headscarf, Umm Omar barely blinks as she whips out a pistol in her garden. For her, the gun is a necessary evil to protect her young family.

Obama salutes promised end of US combat in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 08:36 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama exits the Oval Office to speak in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, in July 2010. Obama's foreign policy of grand gestures has given way in his second White House year to a diplomatic slog in pursuit of elusive but occasionally promising gains.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AP - Nearing a milestone in the long and divisive Iraq war, President Barack Obama on Monday hailed this month's planned withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops — "as promised and on schedule" — as a major success despite deep doubts about the Iraqis' ability to police and govern their country.

Obama touts withdrawal in Iraq war. Does he sound like Bush? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:06 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama shifted his focus from domestic issues to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Monday, marking a month that will see the end of the US combat role in Iraq.

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