2011年11月3日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Sadr says to resist any U.S. presence in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:48 PM PDT

Reuters - Anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Thursday he would resist any American presence in Iraq, including a civilian one, beyond year-end when all U.S. forces depart nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Analysis: Obama plows on with plans to end Iraq, Afghan wars (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:43 PM PDT

U.S. soldiers check military vehicles that would be shipped, as troops prepare to pull out of a military base in Nassiriya, about 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad November 3, 2011. REUTERS/Atef HassanReuters - American soldiers in Iraq are packing up military gear and shutting down bases as the United States races to remove all but a couple hundred troops by year's end.

Iraqi cleric: US seeking to 'occupy' Mideast (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:41 PM PDT

Anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr prays during his visit to the holy shrine of Imam Hussein in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad January 9, 2011. REUTERS/StringerAP - U.S. plans to station troops across the Mideast after withdrawing from Iraq amount to occupying other Islamic countries, Iraq's most outspoken anti-American cleric said in an interview broadcast Thursday.

NYC veteran speaks of his experience with DADT in Iraq (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:48 AM PDT

ContributorNetwork - Sgt. Angelo Casali, age 29, has known of his sexual orientation since he was a young boy. When he decided to join the U.S. Marine Corps in 2003, he did so completely aware that under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy (DADT), he was not allowed to announce that he was gay while he was in the military. He also knew that he could not change who he was and had no intention of trying. He was going to be who he was regardless of what anyone thought of him.

UN to broker deal between Iraq, Iranian exiles (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:04 AM PDT

Gorguis Yacoub, left, representative of Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to journalists during a joint press conference with Martin Kobler, right, top U.N. envoy to Iraq, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The top U.N. envoy to Iraq is offering to broker the peaceful closing of a camp of Iranian exiles before the government in Baghdad forces its residents out at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - In a last-ditch attempt to head off a confrontation, the top U.N. envoy to Iraq on Thursday offered to broker the peaceful closing of a camp of Iranian exiles before the government in Baghdad forces its residents out at the end of the year.

Attackers strike Iraq Sunni militia, six killed (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:35 AM PDT

Anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr prays during his visit to the holy shrine of Imam Hussein in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad January 9, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Two bombs exploded as members of a government-backed Sunni militia gathered to collect their pay in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Thursday, killing six people and wounding dozens, security and health officials said.

As troops leave, U.S. seeks custody of key Iraq detainee (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 10:03 PM PDT

Reuters - With less than 60 days before the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, the United States is quietly seeking to keep custody of its highest profile detainee there, U.S. and Iraqi officials say.

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