2011年9月6日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Pentagon narrowing options for Iraq troops (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:47 PM PDT

Iraqi women work at a brick factory in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo / Karim Kadim)AP - The Obama administration is reviewing a number of options that could leave several thousand U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year, but only if Iraqi officials make a decision about what they want American forces to do.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,474 (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:25 AM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, at least 4,474 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Kurdish leader says Iraq needs U.S. beyond 2011 (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT

Kurdish President Masoud Barzani speaks at a news conference in Arbil, November 8, 2010. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Iraq needs a U.S. military presence beyond this year and the withdrawal of American forces will increase the possibility of civil war, the president of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region said on Tuesday.


Kurd president calls for US forces to stay in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 08:39 AM PDT

Eric Kemper looks at a letter written by his sister-in-law, who was killed in Iraq, that was stored in a fireproof cabinet after his home was destroyed by fire as wildfires burn out of control near Bastrop, Texas September 6, 2011. Wildfires sweeping across drought-stricken Texas have destroyed more than 1,000 homes and forced thousands of evacuations in the past several days, officials said. The worst of the fires, the Bastrop County Complex fire located about 30 miles/48 km southeast of Austin in the central part of the state, has destroyed up to 600 homes, the most of any single fire in Texas history.   REUTERS/Mike Stone (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)AP - The powerful leader of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region made his first public appeal for American forces to stay in Iraq, saying on Tuesday that if they leave sectarian violence may erupt.


Fear still reigns in Iraq, even after Saddam (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 12:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2006 file photo an Iraqi woman grieves over the death of her relative who was killed in violence in Baghdad, Iraq. As the country enters a post-U.S. era, many Iraqis who had welcomed the 2003 invasion and hoped for better lives feel they remain in even more danger than before Saddam's fall. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - As a Shiite Muslim who was interrogated by Iraq's secret police and lost her job because she would not join the regime's Baath Party, Fawzia al-Attia should feel safer now that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power. She does not.


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