2011年10月25日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Bachmann vs. Bachmann: No to Libyan 'Entanglement' but Wants to Keep Troops in Iraq (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 02:07 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | In the world of politicians, black and white -- for or against -- works better to show definitiveness and decisiveness. Not one Republican politician exhibits this better than Minnesota legislator and presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, who, unlike Mitt Romney, tends to pick a side and sticks with it. Sometimes she does so to her own detriment such as when she attempted to explain on CBS' "Face The Nation" why she was against involvement in Libya but for further involvement in Iraq.

Iraq rounds up Baathists ahead of U.S. pullout (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Iraq has arrested at least 240 former members of Saddam Hussein's banned Baath Party and ex-military officers over what some senior officials described as a plot to seize power after U.S. troops withdraw at year's end.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,481 (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 12:21 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at least 4,481 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Turkish forces target PKK Iraq camp: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 06:30 AM PDT

Turkish soldiers patrol a road near Cukurca in the Hakkari province, southeastern Turkey, near the Turkish-Iraqi border October 22, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq overnight and some 500 soldiers have crossed the border with armored vehicles, military and security sources told Reuters on Tuesday, in an escalation of hostilities.


Baghdad bombs target traffic police, 1killed (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Relatives and friends of Iraqi traffic policeman Ali Hameed grieve during his funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Police said gunmen in a speeding car attacked a traffic police checkpoint in the center of the Iraqi capital early Monday, killing two policemen and two civilians. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraqi police say that a roadside bomb has killed a traffic policemen in Baghdad, on the second morning in a row in which traffic patrols appear to have been targeted by insurgents.


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