Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3120 world Baghdad Observer - McClatchy Newspapers en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:02:04 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3120 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090703/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200907gihumorhtml mcb_baghdad/20090703/baghdad200907gihumorhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:02:04 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - A year in a war zone requires a sense of humor. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090702/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200907theguyswhomakethearmyworkhtml mcb_baghdad/20090702/baghdad200907theguyswhomakethearmyworkhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:23:38 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - "The guys who make the army work." That's what techno-thriller writer Tom Clancy called NCOs. They are noncommissioned officers, the soldiers and Marines in pay grades E-5 through E-9:  buck sergeants, staff sergeants, sergeants first class, master sergeants and sergeants major.  http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090701/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200907threeiraqiofficerswillhelpshapetheirnationsfatehtml mcb_baghdad/20090701/baghdad200907threeiraqiofficerswillhelpshapetheirnationsfatehtml McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:26:34 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - Meet three Iraqis who will help determine whether this week's handoff of authority and sovereignty to Iraq from the U.S. will succeed. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090629/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906anightpatrolinbaghdadhtml mcb_baghdad/20090629/baghdad200906anightpatrolinbaghdadhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:28:32 GMT McClatchy Newspapers -     Lt. Col. Drake Jackson briefed the 10-man, two-interpeter patrol before it left the relative safety of Foward Operating Base Justice in northwest Baghdad.  A sandstorm had let up, and the evening sky was clearing.  Some sitting on a concrete bench and some standing, the soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 1-18 Infantry, 1st Infantry Division checked their M4 rifles and M9 pistols.  Their body armor and Kevlar helmets were on tight. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090624/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906toembedornottoembedhtml mcb_baghdad/20090624/baghdad200906toembedornottoembedhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:11:36 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - Unless you have a kidnap or death wish, there's only one answer to the question for a reporter covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090622/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906kirkukaplacethatshouldbeseenandheardhtml mcb_baghdad/20090622/baghdad200906kirkukaplacethatshouldbeseenandheardhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:55:05 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - The Iraqi army major, a Kurd, didn't know what hit him.  Col. David Paschal, the 6'6" commander of the 10th Mountain Division based in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk last year, had taken off the diplomatic gloves.  As tea and soft drinks were served by fawning subordinates, the major almost preened in his easy chair.  The top-ranked American soldier in the area had come to visit HIM.  http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090620/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906yourcorrespondentintherainbowdreammanundies1html mcb_baghdad/20090620/baghdad200906yourcorrespondentintherainbowdreammanundies1html McClatchy Newspapers world Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:30:46 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - 'Journalists who take themselves too seriously can look forward to funerals paid for either by donation or by the city council.' http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090620/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906yourcorrespondentintherainbowdreammanundieshtml mcb_baghdad/20090620/baghdad200906yourcorrespondentintherainbowdreammanundieshtml McClatchy Newspapers world Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:45:24 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - 'Journalists who take themselves too seriously can look forward to funerals paid for either by donation or by the city council.' --Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist The glamor and glory of a war correspondent. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090619/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906theordinarybecomesmagiciniraqhtml mcb_baghdad/20090619/baghdad200906theordinarybecomesmagiciniraqhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:19:22 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - Last night I went out for supper. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090618/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906afedwhotrulyhelpedhtml mcb_baghdad/20090618/baghdad200906afedwhotrulyhelpedhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:49:15 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - Haider, our driver, and I were threading our way through 108 degrees and a narrow concrete path hemmed in by blast walls in the International Zone (IZ).  That's what the old Green Zone is called now.  We both had to get U.S. military ID badges so we could be street legal and enter places we couldn't go without 'em. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090617/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906worldsworstcommutetryjenansinbaghdadhtml mcb_baghdad/20090617/baghdad200906worldsworstcommutetryjenansinbaghdadhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:47:24 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - A big U.S. motor oil company has been sponsoring a "World's Worst Commute" contest on TV.  Commercials have shown folks across the land talking about the bridges, bypasses, detours, flyovers, clots of cars and other hassles they must endure to go, say, 27 miles in two hours.  The winner gets a ride with a NASCAR champ.  (Is second prize two rides?) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090616/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906amorningatthemuseumhtml mcb_baghdad/20090616/baghdad200906amorningatthemuseumhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:26:29 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - Departing McClatchy rotator Jack Dolan of the Miami Herald let his successor tag along when he and Laith, one of our Iraqi reporters, toured the Baghdad Museum in Rasheed, the old part of the city.  Along the way we passed three places that Laith assured us had opened as night clubs.  Since he wrote the story last year about liquor stores reopening in Baghdad, look for a feature down the road about Baghdad-after-dark that doesn't include firefights and wounded victims. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090615/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906dodgingsniperswithchalabihtml mcb_baghdad/20090615/baghdad200906dodgingsniperswithchalabihtml McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:55:13 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - Walking 100 yards through Baghdad this weekend with Ahmad Chalabi -- the former Iraqi exile who helped justify the U.S. led invasion – was a nightmare. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090615/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200906glancesofiraqafterayearawayhtml mcb_baghdad/20090615/baghdad200906glancesofiraqafterayearawayhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:19:50 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - From Mike Tharp, who recently returned to Iraq to report from Baghdad for several weeks. He is Executive Editor of the Merced (Calif.) Sun-Star. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090510/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200905bombinginbaghdadthreeinjuredhtml mcb_baghdad/20090510/baghdad200905bombinginbaghdadthreeinjuredhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Sun, 10 May 2009 07:05:54 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - A bomb targeting a convoy of traffic police officers went off in Baghdad Sunday morning, injuring three civilians. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090507/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200905mcclatchyemploysahostoflocalreportersanddriverswithoutthemourworkwouldntbepossiblebesidesshuttlingus mcb_baghdad/20090507/baghdad200905mcclatchyemploysahostoflocalreportersanddriverswithoutthemourworkwouldntbepossiblebesidesshuttlingustohtml McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 07 May 2009 13:06:16 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - McClatchy's Baghdad bureau employs a host of local reporters and drivers. Without them our work wouldn't be possible. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090505/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200905didbaghdadsecurityforcescapturetheheadofalqaidainiraqhtml mcb_baghdad/20090505/baghdad200905didbaghdadsecurityforcescapturetheheadofalqaidainiraqhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 05 May 2009 12:09:52 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - From guest blogger Corinne Reilly, Merced Sun-Star: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090415/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200904notenoughpowertogoaroundhtml mcb_baghdad/20090415/baghdad200904notenoughpowertogoaroundhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:53:04 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - From guest blogger Corinne Reilly, Merced Sun-Star http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090415/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200904anamericanatanantiamericanrallyhtml mcb_baghdad/20090415/baghdad200904anamericanatanantiamericanrallyhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:50:44 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - From guest blogger Corinne Reilly, Merced Sun-Star: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcbbaghdad/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_baghdad/20090408/wl_mcb_baghdad/baghdad200904iraqiscanfixanythingbuttheircountryhtml mcb_baghdad/20090408/baghdad200904iraqiscanfixanythingbuttheircountryhtml McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:39:49 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - From guest blogger Corinne Reilly, Merced Sun-Star: