2011年3月22日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


President Obama to Have a Bush- or Clinton-Esque War in Libya? (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:02 AM PDT

ContributorNetwork - President Barack Obama is taking the heat for enforcing the Libya no-fly zone. In fact, Obama has been compared negatively to George W. Bush, worst thing to be in many circles. The Libya no-fly zone isn't the equivalent of the Iraq war -- at least not yet -- but it is inspiring the same kind of criticism. As such, the Bush comparisons -- and the disappointment they even need to be made -- could cost the administration a lot of support.

Five killed in Iraq violence (AFP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 09:36 AM PDT

Iraqi policemen are reflected in a mirror in a street in central Baghdad in 2010. A senior army officer, three policemen and a member of an anti-Qaeda squad were killed and eight people were wounded in a series of attacks on Tuesday in Iraq, security services said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - A senior army officer, three policemen and a member of an anti-Qaeda squad were killed and eight people were wounded in a series of attacks on Tuesday in Iraq, security services said.


Police officer killed in N. Iraq demonstration (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 09:03 AM PDT

Iraqi policemen are reflected in a mirror in a street in central Baghdad in 2010. A senior army officer, three policemen and a member of an anti-Qaeda squad were killed and eight people were wounded in a series of attacks on Tuesday in Iraq, security services said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AP - The mayor of a town in Iraq's Kurdish self-ruled region says one policeman was fatally shot and ten others wounded during a demonstration.


Why Is the Libya War Called Operation Odyssey Dawn? (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 11:46 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom—those were war names that meant something! Is the Libyan assault meant to last 10 years, like Odysseus' journey? Josh Dzieza on the history of naming military operations, from Barbarossa to Blue Spoon, and what Odyssey Dawn really means.

Belgium breaks Iraq’s world record for government impasse (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 11:21 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Belgium, home of the European Union and NATO, recently logged a bizarre world record: In February it eclipsed Iraq as the nation longest unable to form a government after elections. And there doesn't appear to be any end in sight to the more than 270-day standoff that could ultimately lead to a national divorce between Belgium's two main ethnic groups, the Dutch Flemish and the French Walloons.
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