2010年10月9日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraqi PM urges rivals to agree to unity government (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 08:07 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on rivals to join him in a national unity government on Saturday but potential partners suggested such an alliance may be a long way off.

Iraq's PM calls for talks with political rivals (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:19 AM PDT

File - In this file photo released by the Iraq Prime Minister's Office Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, shakes hands with Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani at the Dokan resort west of Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. A Kurdish political negotiator says his bloc is close to a deal that would give Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki enough parliament seats to keep power and form a new government. It would be a major step in ending Iraq's seven-month political limbo. But it would likely bring strong backlash from Sunni leaders and could drag on the crisis for months.(AP Photo/Iraq Prime Minister's Office, File ,HO)AP - Iraq's prime minister on Saturday urged all rival parties to join in political talks and show the "flexiblity and realism" to make concessions toward ending the country's seven-month government impasse.


Gunmen in Iraq kill three ministry workers (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:03 AM PDT

A policeman guards a road block in Baghdad. Gunmen wearing black uniforms have shot dead three people, two of them brothers, near the restive city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, police said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Gunmen wearing black uniforms on Saturday shot dead three people, two of them brothers, near the restive city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, police said.


Iraq PM calls for opponents to return from exile (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 03:37 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen here in June 2010, hascalled for national reconciliation on Saturday, opening the door for former opponents to return home as he struggles to form a new government seven months after elections.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for national reconciliation on Saturday, opening the door for former opponents to return home as he struggles to form a new government seven months after elections.


An Ex-U.S. Soldier Visits Iraq's Old Battlefields (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 01:10 AM PDT

Time.com - Continuing his tour of Iraq, a former American soldier visits the area around Ramadi to see how a kind of normal life is taking hold after years of violence

In Iraq's Old Battlefields: Two Kinds of Americans (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 01:05 AM PDT

Time.com - The people of Anbar province may not have liked Americans but they learned to hate al-Qaeda more. But they also learned to prefer one kind of U.S. soldier to another
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