2008年8月29日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Jury acquits former Marine in killing of Iraqis (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 03:56 AM CDT

Former Marine Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario Jr., 28, from New York, speaks about his impending federal trial, at the office of one of his attorneys, Joseph M. Preis, in Irvine, Calif., on Aug. 16, 2008. Nazario faces charges of shooting detainees during the 2004 battle of Fallujah, in Iraq. The defense has rested without calling a single witness Wednesday Aug. 27, 2008, at the civilian trial of Nazario, a former Marine charged with killing unarmed detainees in Iraq, in Riverside, Calif. (AP Photo/Sean Dufrene)AP - Jurors wept and embraced former Marine Jose Luis Nazario Jr. after acquitting him of voluntary manslaughter in the killings of unarmed Iraqi detainees during a fierce 2004 battle.

Iraq's port city shows signs of an economic comeback (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 03:00 AM CDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As Iraqi dockworkers unload rice from the Yichanghai, a Thai freighter, the boat's captain recalls the last time his company sent a ship to Umm Qasr, Iraq's only port city, in 2004. Boats had to wait one to two months outside the port before authorities allowed them to dock, and local militias often extorted extra duties.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,150 (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 07:42 PM CDT

Vice President Dick Cheney attends a meeting with Iraq's President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad March 17, 2008. Cheney in his first visit to Tbilisi next week will assure Georgia that the United States stands firmly with its ally which is reeling from a decisive military defeat at Russian hands. (Mohammed Jalil/Pool/Reuters)AP - As of Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, at least 4,150 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

U.S. jury acquits ex-Marine in Iraqi killings (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 06:01 PM CDT

Reuters - A former U.S. Marine sergeant accused of killing four unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted on Thursday of all criminal charges in the case, including voluntary manslaughter.

Former US Marine cleared of manslaughter in California (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 04:52 PM CDT

US marines conduct house-to-house searches in Fallujah, in 2004. Republican White House hopeful John McCain has picked his running mate to stand with him against the Democrats in the November election, his campaign said Thursday.(AFP/File/Mehdi Fedouach)AFP - A former US Marine was acquitted of manslaughter here Thursday in the shooting deaths of four unarmed Iraqi prisoners during 2004 fighting in Fallujah.

Defense contractor accused of human trafficking (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 02:51 PM CDT

File photo shows aircraft at Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq. A Nepalese man and relatives of 12 of his slain comrades filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against the construction and services giant KBR on charges of human trafficking, for allegedly tricking the men into working in Iraq.(AFP/USAF/File/Cecilio M. Ricardo)AP - The families of 12 Nepali men killed by Iraqi insurgents have filed a federal lawsuit accusing defense contractor KBR Inc. and a Jordanian subcontractor of human trafficking, saying the men were sent to work in Iraq against their will after being promised jobs in a posh hotel in Jordan.

Senior Iraqi official suspected of militia links (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 02:39 PM CDT

Iraqi police conduct a mock operation during a graduation ceremony held at a police academy, near the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A senior official in Nouri al-Maliki's government was in custody Thursday suspected of ties to Iranian-backed Shiite militias and plotting a June bombing that killed 10 people, including four Americans, Iraqi authorities said.

U.S. forces arrest senior Iraqi official (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 01:29 PM CDT

Vice President Dick Cheney attends a meeting with Iraq's President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad March 17, 2008. Cheney in his first visit to Tbilisi next week will assure Georgia that the United States stands firmly with its ally which is reeling from a decisive military defeat at Russian hands. (Mohammed Jalil/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. forces arrested the deputy head of a committee that purged Iraq's government of members of Saddam Hussein's party, an ally said, but the U.S. military said he was a wanted militia leader behind a deadly Baghdad bombing.

Iraq's Sadr suspends militia operations (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 10:58 AM CDT

Iraqi Shiites flash the V for 'victory' sign in front of a portrait ofMoqtada al-Sadr in Sadr City on the outskirts of Baghdad. The radical Iraqi Shiite cleric has ordered a halt to armed operations by his 60,000-strong Mahdi Army militia, blamed by Washington for some of the worst sectarian killings of Sunni Arabs in the war-torn country.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)AFP - Radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday ordered a halt to armed operations by his 60,000-strong Mahdi Army militia, blamed by Washington for some of the worst sectarian killings of Sunni Arabs in the war-torn country.

Iraq says US to hand over former Sunni battleground (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 10:26 AM CDT

Map of Iraq showing provinces transferred from US to Iraqi control. The US military will next week hand over to Iraqi forces security control of Anbar, a Sunni Arab province where some of the war's bloodiest battles have been fought, the provincial police chief said on Thursday.(AFP/Gil)AFP - The US military will next week hand over to Iraqi forces security control of Anbar, a Sunni Arab province where some of the war's bloodiest battles have been fought, the provincial police chief said on Thursday.

China, Iraq reach $3 billion oil service deal (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 09:12 AM CDT

AP - China and Iraq have signed a $3 billion deal revising a prewar agreement for China's biggest oil company to help develop the Ahdab oil field, an official at the Iraq's Oil Ministry said Thursday.

Iraqi PM changes team negotiating U.S. troops pact (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 09:07 AM CDT

U.S. soldiers from the First Infantry Division, First Brigade Combat Team and Iraqi policemen patrol at Baghdad's Dora market August 27, 2008. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)Reuters - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has reshuffled a negotiating team seeking to finalize an agreement on the future presence of U.S. troops here, a senior Iraqi politician said on Thursday.

US soldier killed in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 08:01 AM CDT

File photo shows US Marines on patrol in the restive city of Fallujah. An American soldier has died of wounds sustained in a small arms attack in northern Baghdad, the US military in Iraq has said.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - An American soldier has died of wounds sustained in a small arms attack in northern Baghdad, the US military in Iraq said on Thursday.

Iraqi forces starting to lead but need US aid (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2008 07:08 AM CDT

Col. Faisal Malik Mohsen, the commander of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Brigade, 2nd Division Iraqi National Police stands in front of a local police station in the village of Wajihiyah, in Iraq's Diyala province, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. The Iraqi battalion leader had survived two roadside bomb attacks but had not faced a gunbattle since arriving last month in Diyala province. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)AP - The Iraqi battalion leader huddled over the map with his American advisers, showing them how he planned to surround a Sunni enclave where al-Qaida militants were believed hiding.

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