2011年3月18日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Libya live report (AFP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:53 AM PDT

Nato Awacs planes and a US miltary plane stand on the tarmac of the Trapani Birgi airbase in the southern Italien island of Sicily on Friday. Italy's government held emergency talks on Libya today after the UN Security Council cleared the way for air strikes by approving AFP - 1547 GMT: Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah have used electric batons and gunfire to break up a demonstration against government corruption and the lack of basic services, wounding 15 people, witnesses and a doctor have told AFP.

Bahrain army demolishes monument at Pearl Square (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:38 PM PDT

This photo taken from Bahrain TV via Associated Press Television News on Friday, March 18, 2011 shows the rubble from the base of the Pearl Square monument, in Manama, Bahrain. Bahrain on Friday tore down the 300-foot (90-meter) monument at the heart of a square purged of Shiite protesters this week, erasing a symbol of an uprising that's inflaming sectarian tensions across the region. The monument — six white curved beams topped with a huge cement pearl — was built in Pearl Square as a tribute to the Sunni-ruled kingdom's history as a pearl-diving center. It became the backdrop to the Shiite majority's uprising after protesters set up a month-long camp at Pearl Square in the capital, Manama. (AP Photo/Bahrain TV via APTN) BAHRAIN OUT TV OUTAP - Bahrain on Friday tore down the 300-foot (90-meter) monument at the heart of a square purged of Shiite protesters this week, erasing a symbol of an uprising that's inflaming sectarian tensions across the region.

Iraq weighs if US troops should stay after 8 years (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 07:30 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, March 17, 2011, U.S. Army soldiers from D Co., 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, seen at right, stand in formation with Iraqi Army soldiers during a graduation ceremony for Iraqi Army soldiers in the operation of M1A1 Abrams tank sat Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraq. The American invasion of Iraq was only supposed to take a few months: a quick blitz to depose dictator Saddam Hussein, find and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and go home. Eight years later, thousands of U.S. troops remain in Iraq — and their mission may not be accomplished until far into the future. Just how many will stay is the heart of a tense and hushed debate among U.S. and Iraqi officials who want the fragile democracy to stand alone for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that began locally on the night of March 19, 2003 — but fear it could fall apart without military support. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - The American invasion of Iraq was supposed to take only a few months: a quick blitz to depose dictator Saddam Hussein, find and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and go home.

Iraqi Shiites decry Sunni crackdown in Bahrain (AP)

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 07:19 AM PDT

Riot police stand guard during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 18, 2011. Protesters gathered to demonstrate against corruption and the lack of government services in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, one of at least four demonstrations, in Iraqi cities on Friday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Thousands of protesters rallied Friday in mostly Shiite cities across Iraq against what some are calling "sectarian attacks" by security forces against Shiite-led protesters in the Sunni-ruled kingdom of Bahrain.

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