2011年12月10日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq: A war of muddled goals, painful sacrifice (AP)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:31 PM PST

FILE - In this March 20, 2003 file photo, smoke rises from the Trade Ministry in Baghdad after it was hit by a missile during US-led forces attacks. In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world. Nearly 4,500 American and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives later, the objective now is simply to get out — and leave behind a country where democracy has at least a chance, where Iran does not dominate and where conditions may not be good but 'good enough.' (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)AP - In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world.

Iraq after the US: Will it survive? (video) (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:45 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Most Iraqis can tell you the exact moment that war exploded into their lives, dissolving their hope for the US invasion of their country in 2003 and hardening the despair over its bloody aftermath.

How the Iraq war has changed America (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:45 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - It's called "over the horizon" or remote military intervention â€" the use of unmanned drones and ship-launched missiles to take out human targets operating in a foreign country without having to put boots on the ground.

Inside terror: Canadian charged in murder of 5 US soldiers in Iraq (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:47 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - An Iraqi national living in Canada was indicted in New York on Friday on charges that he helped run a secret network that sent potential suicide bombers from Tunisia to Iraq to target US military forces.

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