2010年8月27日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi PM warns of attacks as U.S. withdraws: TV (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:40 PM PDT

A U.S. Soldier takes down the vehicle numbers of humvees loaded up on a trailer as they prepare to leave Iraq at Balad Base 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad August 27, 2010. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday his government had information al Qaeda-linked groups were planning a series of attacks across the country, state television reported.

US points to oil as key to Iraq's postwar future (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:10 PM PDT

AP - When the U.S. overthrew Saddam Hussein seven years ago, the Bush administration envisioned a liberated Iraq that was rich, stable, democratic and a shining example to the rest of the Arab world.

US: $1.9M in computers for kids missing in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 01:05 PM PDT

A vendor uses a saw to cut ice in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Iraqi lawmakers should use their salaries to buy ice for the poor who are suffering through a miserably hot summer without electricity, an aide to Iraq's top Shiite cleric said Friday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The U.S. military is demanding to know what happened to $1.9 million worth of computers purchased by American taxpayers and intended for Iraqi schoolchildren that have instead been auctioned off by Iraqi officials for less than $50,000, the military said Friday.

Iraq road map: the new US ambassador explains hurdles (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 11:46 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Despite progress, Iraq still faces extraordinary problems with continued risks to US strategic interests as the county grapples with forming a new government, the new US ambassador said in his first public remarks since arriving here.

Eight killed in Iraq violence, Qaeda militants arrested (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 11:05 AM PDT

Former Sunni rebels who sided with US soldiers against Al-Qaeda during Iraq's brutal insurgency, sit on their vehicles in the northern city of Samarra on August 21. At least eight people were killed in violence across Iraq on Friday, including three anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen, a week before the US military is due to end its combat mission in the country.(AFP/File/Mahmud Saleh)AFP - At least eight people were killed in violence across Iraq on Friday, including three anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen, a week before the US military is due to end its combat mission in the country.

US soldiers back from Iraq made 'America safer': Obama (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 10:15 AM PDT

US soldiers SGT Josh Chiasson (R) and PFC Roy Ryan (2nd R), of the 4th stryker brigade, second infantry division that pulled out of Iraq earlier this week, gesture for the camera at Camp Virginia in the Kuwaiti desert on August 21. US President Barack Obama in a YouTube message on Friday thanked US troops back from Iraq for their AFP - US President Barack Obama in a YouTube message on Friday thanked US troops back from Iraq for their "dedication" and "courage" that "has made America safer."

Iraq gunmen kill three anti-Qaeda militiamen (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 01:24 AM PDT

Armed Sahwa or AFP - Gunmen killed three anti-Qaeda militiamen in northern Iraq overnight in the latest revenge attack against the force credited with turning the tide against the jihadists, police said on Friday.

Looking at lessons that can be learned from Iraq (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 01:18 AM PDT

AP - They are different wars in different regions, with different challenges. But as the war in Iraq winds down, there is a lot the U.S. military can learn and apply to Afghanistan, from how to deal with contractors to when to draw down troops.

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