2011年11月27日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq emerges from war a society divided by sect (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 09:18 AM PST

In this Nov. 15, 2011 photo, a woman passes under posters for Shiite religious leaders and Shiite people who were killed during the sectarian violence at the primarily Shiite neighborhood of Hurriyah, in north Baghdad. Hurriyah, which means 'freedom' in Arabic, is symptomatic of much of Iraq: far quieter than at the height of the war but with an uneasy peace achieved through intimidation and bloodshed. The number of Iraqi neighborhoods in which members of the two Muslim sects live side-by-side and intermarry has dwindled. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The sounds of cars honking, shoppers shuffling and children laughing and playing drums fill the air in Hurriyah, a Baghdad neighborhood where machine-gun fire and death squads once kept terrified residents huddled in their darkened homes.


The war in Iraq: soldiers assess 'peaks and valleys,' prospects of a final attack (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 07:38 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - As he watches yet another US military column prepare to drive across Iraq’s southern desert wastelands and withdraw into Kuwait, US Army Col. Scott Efflandt fears the impact of any final strike against his troops.

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