2010年8月23日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iran's influence in Iraq overstated: Biden (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 01:52 PM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden has pointed out that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen here on August 8, and his rival for the premiership, Iyad Allawi, were both deemed AFP - Iran's influence in Iraq has been exaggerated and Tehran's efforts to shape parliamentary elections in the country "utterly failed," US Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday.

Biden tells vets US keeping Iraqi commitments (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:34 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in Indianapolis, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States will remain committed to helping the Iraqi people even after the last American combat troops leave the country this month.

'Mission accomplished'? Joe Biden gives upbeat assessment of Iraq. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:18 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Obama White House has been fretting for weeks over how best to portray the official conclusion of the US combat presence in Iraq at the end of this month. If the speech by Vice President Joe Biden before a veterans organization Monday is an indication, it will be upbeat, muscular, and just shy of “mission accomplished.”

Iraq border concerns spur effort to integrate Kurdish and Iraqi Army forces (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:44 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In this disputed city, Kurdish forces are being trained by Iraqi Army instructors in what officials call a breakthrough aimed at easing tensions between the two sides and securing Iraq’s vulnerable border with Iran.

Biden pressing Iraqi leaders to form government (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:44 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad July 4, 2010. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday he is pressing Iraq's leaders to settle their differences and form a government, almost six months after the country's election and a week before the scheduled end of the U.S. combat mission.

U.S. pullout from Iraq a mountainous challenge (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:35 AM PDT

U.S. soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment carry their luggage as they prepare to pull out of Iraq at Tallil Air Base near Nassiriya, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, August 15, 2010. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - For months now First Lieutenant Sidney Leslie's mind has not been on protecting U.S. military convoys in Iraq from bomb and insurgent attacks but on packing up, loading trucks and going home to Bedford, Virginia.

A shoe flies, a leader ducks ... a trend is born? (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:05 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2008 file photo, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi throws a shoe at President George W. Bush during a new conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq. Throwing shoes at the mighty has become a global phenomenon that shows no sign of fading away. Since that infamous Baghdad press conference on Dec. 14, 2008, when an Iraqi TV journalist hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush's head and called him a dog, shoes have flown at the prime ministers of China and Turkey, the chief justice of Israel's Supreme Court, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, a Ukrainian politician who favored joining NATO, and a string of Indian politicians. Just this month, shoes flew at Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and the top elected official in Indian-controlled Kashmir. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - For a few days, he was famous the world over â€" an Iraqi TV journalist who became an instant hero for millions when he hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush's head and called him a dog.

Iraq investors wary but optimistic: survey (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:46 AM PDT

An Iraqi vendor sells gas cylinders in Baghdad on May 6. Foreign investors are still put off by violence in Iraq but most companies believe the security situation will improve, despite the withdrawal of international troops, a new study has found.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Foreign investors are still put off by violence in Iraq but most companies believe the security situation will improve, despite the withdrawal of international troops, a new study found Monday.

In porn, a story of Iraq's politics (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:33 AM PDT

In this Thursday, July 22, 2010 photo, Iraqis walk past a street vendor selling DVD movies in central Baghdad, Iraq. The nude women on the DVD covers in a Baghdad street stall say it all: Change, whether you like it or not, is afoot in Iraq. The porn, in an odd way, has told the story of Iraq's security and political situation since Saddam Hussein's ouster in 2003. It emerged in the anything-goes atmosphere that erupted in the vacuum immediately following the U.S. invasion — then went back into hiding amid the anarchy when armed militias roamed the capital through 2008, targeting those they saw as immoral. Its reemergence since then reflects how security has improved but also how the fragile government is busy with more pressing issues than spicy videos. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The nude women on the DVD cover in a Baghdad street stall say it all: Change, whether you like it or not, is afoot in Iraq.

US looks to Iraq strategy for Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 03:20 AM PDT

An elderly Afghan man carries grass on his shoulder on his way home as US soldiers patrol through a village in Kandahar province in July 2010. Washington is hoping the war in Afghanistan -- deadlier than ever and already two years older than the Iraq conflict -- can benefit from a similar strategy as they step up the war against insurgents(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AFP - With the withdrawal of the final American combat brigade from Iraq, US commanders in Afghanistan are hoping to emulate a strategy used there as they step up the war against insurgents.

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