2011年10月22日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Retired Marine and Blue Star Mother -- It's Past Time to Leave Iraq (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 03:40 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - FIRST PERSON | After years of uniformed presence and more than 4,400 American military lives lost, it was announced on Friday that U.S. troops would be removed from Iraq by the end of the year.

Hundreds rally in support of Iranian opposition (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 03:01 PM PDT

Demonstrators chant during a march in Washington after rallying in front of the White House Saturday, Oct. 22,  2011. Hundreds of people rallied, demanding that an Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), once allied with Iraq's Saddam Hussein, be removed from a U.S. terror list.  (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Hundreds of people rallied outside the White House on Saturday, calling on President Barack Obama to remove an Iranian opposition group once allied with Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.


What Have You Done for Me Lately? Obama's Domestic Headache (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 02:58 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | He took out Osama bin Laden, and Anwar al-Awlaki. He led from behind to the successful demise of Moammar Gadhafi and is ending the war in Iraq, but like George H.W. Bush in 1991, President Barack Obama's successes abroad don't mean much among an increasingly xenophobic and self-indulgent electorate clamoring for an upswing in the economy. "What have you done for me lately?" ask the people who want to party like it's 1999.

Conflicted Iraqis face future without US troops (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 12:09 PM PDT

Umm Mohammed, 55, left, distributes sweets and juice as she celebrates the announcement of the U.S. Army's withdrawal in central Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that U.S. troops are leaving Iraq after nearly nine years of war because Baghdad rejected American demands that any U.S. military forces to stay would have to be shielded from prosecution or lawsuits. A day earlier, President Barack Obama had hailed the troops' withdrawal as the result of his commitment — promised shortly after taking office in 2009 — to end the war that he once described as 'dumb.' (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - For the first time in decades, Iraqis face a future on their own, with neither Saddam Hussein's iron fist nor the United States' military might to hold them together. This has been both their dream and nightmare: They wanted American troops (the occupiers) to go, but they wanted American troops (the protectors) to stay.


Iraq still seeking U.S. trainers: PM Maliki (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:38 AM PDT

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad October 9, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Iraq will continue talks with Washington on how U.S. trainers can work with Iraqi forces after a complete withdrawal of American troops at the end of the year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday.


Obama touts foreign policy successes in Iraq, Libya (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:24 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama sought on Saturday to cast himself as a strong leader on foreign policy, highlighting a U.S. pullout from Iraq and the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as success stories.

Obama: Gadhafi, Iraq show renewed US leadership (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 08:11 AM PDT

President Barack Obama concludes his remarks in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, where he declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - President Barack Obama says the death of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and the end of the Iraq war are powerful reminders of America's renewed leadership in the world.


Turkey: 49 Kurdish rebels killed in fighting (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 07:55 AM PDT

U.S. Gen. David H. Petraeus (R) explains security improvements in Sadr City while giving an aerial tour of Baghdad to U.S. Senator Barack Obama and others, in this July 21, 2008 file photo. President Obama on October 22, 2011 sought  to cast himself as a strong leader on foreign policy, highlighting a U.S. pullout from Iraq and the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as success stories. REUTERS/Lorie Jewell/Multi-National Forces Iraq Public Affairs/File Handout   (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSAP - Turkish troops have killed at least 49 Kurdish rebels in a valley near the Iraqi border, the military said Saturday, as hundreds of troops also pursued Kurdish fighters within northern Iraq.


Clinton says US will still stand by Iraq (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 03:53 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, walks alongside Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon at the Palace of the Nation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Friday, Oct. 22, 2011. Clinton is visiting Tajikistan and Uzbekistan this weekend as she wraps up a South and Central Asia tour focused on securing and stabilizing Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)AP - The United States will continue to support Iraq as it moves toward democracy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday as she wrapped up a weeklong overseas trip.


Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:45 PM PDT

Time.com - Regional dynamics, from Turkey's deteriorating ties with Iran and Syria to the plans for the pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq, have combined to fuel a new round of clashes

Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:45 PM PDT

Time.com - President Barack Obama's announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year's Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls

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