2011年4月13日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US army may not help in future Iraq crises: official (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 12:31 PM PDT

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is reflected in a solider's sunglasses while he talks with troops at Camp Victory on April 7, in Baghdad. Iraqi leaders should not expect US forces to return to help in a crisis once they leave at the end of the year, a senior American military official said on Wednesday.(AFP/POOL/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - Iraqi leaders should not expect US forces to return to help in a crisis once they leave at the end of the year, a senior American military official said on Wednesday.

Iraq restricts protests to three Baghdad stadiums (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 11:58 AM PDT

An Iraqi demonstrator waves his national flag as people gather for a weekly protest against corruption, unemployment and poor public services at Baghdad's Tahrir Square on April 1. Iraqi officials have barred street protests in Baghdad, and restricted approved demonstration sites to three football stadiums in the capital, a security spokesman said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi officials have barred street protests in Baghdad, and restricted approved demonstration sites to three football stadiums in the capital, a security spokesman said on Wednesday.

One killed, 16 wounded in Iraq car bomb (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 10:56 AM PDT

Iraqi firefighters douse a burning car in the northern city of Kirkuk after a car bomb ripped through a popular market, killing at least one person and wounding 16, a senior police official told AFP. AFP PHOTO/MARWAN IBRAHIM(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - A car bomb ripped through a popular market in Iraq's restive northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding 16, a senior police official told AFP.

Wounded Iranian exiles forced back to Iraqi camp (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 10:38 AM PDT

Iraqi army soldiers stand guard near burned trailers at Camp Ashraf north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 8, 2011. Iraq security forces raided the settlement of an Iranian exile group that the Shiite-led government has for years tried to oust, leaving at least 10 people dead after pre-dawn clashes Friday, officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iranian dissidents wounded in last week's in clashes with Iraqi soldiers have been forcibly removed from their hospital beds and returned to their camp, two hospital workers said Wednesday.

Senior US military official in Iraq advocates keeping some troops longer (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 10:37 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A senior US military official said Wednesday that keeping some US forces in the country would be "best for Iraq" and warned that the Iraqi military was not equipped to ward off threats in an increasingly volatile region.

Oil police struggle to protect Iraq's 'black gold' (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2011 08:47 AM PDT

Iraq's oil police, with the wide responsibility of guarding every aspect from fields and personnel to refineries and petrol stations, is struggling with shortages of equipment and funds, as well as the manpower specified in the goverment's five-year plan.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - As war-ravaged Iraq ramps up crude oil production to reach an ambitious goal of a nearly five-fold increase by 2017, it is scrambling to face the parallel challenge of protecting oil facilities.

Caught! Dictator Man Caves (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:56 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to give up power after losing an election months ago, has been captured in a hidden underground shelter. From Saddam Hussein’s manhole to Osama bin Laden’s fortified caves, see other leaders’ secret hideaways.

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