2011年8月5日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

German official named to head UN mission in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 01:25 PM PDT

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Friday named Martin Kobler of Germany, pictured here in 2006, as the new head of the UN mission in Iraq helping the government with efforts to recover from conflict.(AFP/POOL/File/Ali Haider)AFP - UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Friday named Martin Kobler of Germany as the new head of the UN mission in Iraq helping the government with efforts to recover from conflict.

Why Iraqis in oil-rich Kirkuk want US troops to stay (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 09:03 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Away from the sweltering heat and dust engulfing this northern Iraqi city, a group of friends from different ethnic groups recently discussed the future of their country in an air-conditioned store.

Baghdad's Shorjah market is Ramadan centre, 700 years on (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:59 AM PDT

Iraqis shop for food and sweets in preparation for the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Baghdad's Shorjah popular market in 2009. The market is the oldest commercial hub in Baghdad and is located in the historic centre of the city.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - A year after it reopened, following rampant violence, shoppers flocked to Baghdad's Shorjah market as they have for centuries to buy goods for the holy month of Ramadan.

Shiite shrine expansion pushes out Sunni neighbors (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 08:33 AM PDT

In this Friday, May 29, 2011 photo, scaffolding remains around the dome and minaret of the al-Askari shrine as Shiite pilgrims pay a visit in Samarra, 60 miles (95 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Above the town of Samarra rises a site that few people who lived through Iraq's vicious sectarian conflict would have thought possible: the golden dome of the al-Askari shrine is almost rebuilt. The day the shrine was blown up — Feb. 22, 2006 — marked the nadir of the war in Iraq. Sunni militants intent on setting off Shiite-Sunni violence struck at one of the most holy sites for Iraq's majority Shiite community: a shrine holding the remains of religious leaders who Shiites consider a core part of their faith. (AP Photo/Khalid Miohammed)AP - The bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in this Sunni city in central Iraq opened the worst chapter of the war, two years of sectarian bloodshed.

Blind date to blindfold: the kidnap business in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 02:55 AM PDT

Iraqi police inspect a trunk of a vehicle at a checkpoint in central Baghdad. Nineteen-year-old Mehdi was looking forward to meeting the girl who had been calling for days on his cell phone. But he was about to learn that the blind date was a lure by kidnappers, who have turned abductions into a multi-million dollar business in Iraq.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Nineteen-year-old Mehdi was looking forward to meeting the girl who had been calling for days on his cell phone. But he was about to learn that the blind date was a lure by kidnappers, who have turned abductions into a multi-million dollar business in Iraq.

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