2010年8月20日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Al-Qaida in Iraq claims army recruit bombing (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:09 PM PDT

Iraqis gather as security forces secure the scene of a suicide attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up among hundreds of army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters killing and wounding dozens of them, one of the bloodiest bombings in months in the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - An al-Qaida in Iraq front group on Friday claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing this week that killed 61 Iraqi army recruits in the deadliest single act of violence in Baghdad in months.

Anti-Qaeda militia chief shot dead in Iraq: police (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:19 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in Baghdad on August 19. A local chief of an anti-Al-Qaeda militia was shot dead on Friday in Baquba city, northeast of the Iraqi capital, police said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A local chief of an anti-Al-Qaeda militia was shot dead on Friday in Baquba city, northeast of the Iraqi capital, police said.

Rumoured return of 'Shiite butcher' rattles Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:41 AM PDT

Sunni Muslim families gather in Martyr's cemetery to pray for their relatives and friends on the first day of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan in Baghdad in 2009. Baghdad residents are gripped by fear over the rumoured return of AFP - Baghdad residents are gripped by fear over the rumoured return of "the Shiite butcher," a militant who earned his gruesome nickname by slaughtering dozens of Sunnis in the Iraqi capital.

How the poll on Iraq-Afghanistan was conducted (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 08:29 AM PDT

AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on Iraq and Afghanistan was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Aug. 11-16, 2010. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,007 adults. Interviews were conducted with 706 respondents on landline telephones and 301 on cellular phones.

Iraq's rival parties resume government coalition talks (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 06:55 AM PDT

Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and former premier Iyad Allawi have resumed negotiations aimed at forming a government after falling out briefly over a sectarian row, senior politicians said on Friday.

Obama heads to bookstore at start of vacation (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:16 AM PDT

President Barack Obama, with his daughters Malia Obama and Sasha Obama, leave the Bunch of Grapes book store in Vineyard Haven, Mass., Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, where the First family is vacationing on Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama began his 10-day vacation on a studious note Friday, stopping at a Martha's Vineyard bookstore before indulging his sporting side at the golf course.

In Iraq's troubles, an exchange eyes growth (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:11 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Sunday, July 25, 2010, Iraqi stock traders watch the sales screen at the Iraq Stock Exchange in Baghdad, Iraq, the stock market, a key economic engine in most major economies, remains another in a list of post-war Iraq's unrealized hopes. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - It's not exactly Wall Street.

Al Qaeda claims responsibility for attack in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 01:00 AM PDT

A pool of blood is seen at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad August 17, 2010. Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate on Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in Baghdad in which at least 57 recruits and soldiers were killed. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate on Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on an army recruitment center in Baghdad in which at least 57 recruits and soldiers were killed.

Al-Qaeda claims attack on Iraq army recruits (AFP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 09:12 PM PDT

Iraqi Defence Minister Abdel Qader al-Obeidi visits one of the victims of a suicide bombing at a crowded army recruitment center in Baghdad. An Al-Qaeda group on Friday claimed it was behind Tuesday's suicide bombing that killed 59 people in the deadliest attack this year, US monitors said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - An Al-Qaeda group on Friday claimed it was behind a suicide bombing on a crowded Iraqi army recruitment centre in Baghdad that killed 59 people in the deadliest attack this year, US monitors said.

US stresses military role in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 07:23 PM PDT

A US Army picture shows a convoy of Stryker armored vehicles ahead of the departure of the last US combat brigade from Iraq at dawn on Thursday.(AFP/Sgt Kimberly Johnson)AFP - US troops will still be in combat and taking on Islamist militants in Iraq even as the American military moves to an "advise and assist" role with a smaller force, officials said.

Troops withdraw, but US work in Iraq war unfinished and fragile (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 01:51 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The key word defining the American effort in Iraq over the coming year will be "transition," as the US shifts from seven years of a military operation to a civilian-led project that in many respects outstrips anything the State Department has ever undertaken.

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