2010年9月19日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Twin Baghdad car bombs kill 29 (AFP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 02:54 PM PDT

An Iraqi soldier stands on the edge of a crater following a car bomb in the residential district of Mansur in the west of the capital Baghdad. Two near-simultaneous car bombs rocked the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 111 in the city's deadliest day in a month.(AFP/Khalil al-Murshidi)AFP - Two near-simultaneous car bombs rocked the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 111 in the city's deadliest day in a month.


Car Bombs tear through Baghdad, Fallujah; 36 dead (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 01:29 PM PDT

Iraqis gather as a bulldozer removes debris after a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Kazimiyah neighborhood, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. Two car bombs exploded during the morning rush hour killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Three car bombs tore through Baghdad and the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah Sunday, killing at least 36 people. The blasts in the capital were so powerful they sheared the sides off buildings and left streets choked with chunks of rubble.


Six killed in Iraq suicide attack (AFP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 11:29 AM PDT

A policeman guards a road block in Baghdad. A suicide bomb in the centre of the Sunni Arab former rebel bastion of Fallujah on Sunday killed six people, including three Iraqi soldiers, a doctor and a security official said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A suicide bomb in the centre of the Sunni Arab former rebel bastion of Fallujah on Sunday killed six people, including three Iraqi soldiers, a doctor and a security official said.


Three bombs kill 18, wound scores in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 08:49 AM PDT

Reuters - Three car bombs killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in Iraq on Sunday as tension runs high six months after an election that no one won outright and weeks after U.S. troops ended combat operations.

US troops still forced to bolster Iraqi forces in battle (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 08:15 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In the two weeks since President Obama declared the end of the US combat mission in Iraq, a series of bloody skirmishes has sharpened the questions about the Iraqi security forces' ability to protect the country.

Iraq war saga: A Baghdad family cherishes good grades, dreams of an Xbox (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 06:11 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - After years of study, sacrifice, and sleepless preparation, the two graduating girls of the Methboub family in Baghdad both held their breath this summer for the results.

Iraq signs deal with Turkey to extend pipeline use (AFP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 05:53 AM PDT

Workers in Iraq maintain the main oil pipeline that runs between the northern city of Kirkuk and Turkey in 2004. Iraq on Sunday signed a deal with Turkey to extend for 15 years the use of the pipeline, which links its northern oilfields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, it said in a statement.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Iraq on Sunday signed a deal with Turkey to extend for 15 years the use of the main pipeline linking its northern oilfields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, it said in a statement.


Mentor of al-Qaida's al-Zarqawi detained in Jordan (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 05:29 AM PDT

AP - Relatives of the mentor of slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi say the man was detained.

12 killed, 48 wounded, in twin Baghdad car bombs (AFP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 01:06 AM PDT

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in Baghdad. Two near-simultaneous car bombs rocked Baghdad on Sunday killing at least 12 people, an AFP journalist and security officials said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Two near-simultaneous car bombs in Baghdad on Sunday morning killed at least 12 people and wounded 48, an interior ministry official said.


(AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 01:03 AM PDT

AP - Iraqi army: Car bomb in western Baghdad kills 12 near mobile phone office.
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