2008年12月9日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Blackwater shootings case moved to Washington DC (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 02:23 AM CST

Blackwater Worldwide security guard Nick Slatten, left, listens to his attorney, Thomas Connolly, as they arrive to federal court to surrender Monday, Dec. 8, 2008, in Salt Lake City. He was one of five guards who were indicted for the 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - Five Blackwater Worldwide guards charged with the unprovoked shooting that killed 14 innocent Iraqis and wounded dozens of others in 2007 will get their day in a Washington court after unsuccessfully trying to move the trial to Utah.

Babylon's history swept away in US army sandbags (AFP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 01:17 AM CST

A view of modern construction (back) and ruins (foreground) of the ancient city of Babylon, some 100 kms south of Baghdad(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Fragments of bricks, engraved with cuneiform characters thousands of years old, lie mixed with the rubble and sandbags left by the US military on the ancient site of Babylon in Iraq.

Blackwater security guards charged with killing 14 Iraqis (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 11:21 PM CST

This file photograph taken in 2006 shows members of the US private security company Blackwater aboard a helicopter in Baghdad. Five guards from the US security firm, which works for the State Department in Iraq, were charged with shooting to death 14 Iraqi civilians and wounding 18 others in Baghdad last year.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - Five guards from US security firm Blackwater Worldwide, a State Department contractor in Iraq, were charged with killing 14 Iraqi civilians and wounding 18 others using gunfire and grenades at a busy Baghdad intersection last year.

Voters want people, not parties in Iraq's Basra (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 08:27 PM CST

Women buy fish at a market in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad November 26, 2008. For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqis could be seeing election candidates kissing babies and canvassing neighbours when a new polling system comes into force in January 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis could be seeing election candidates kissing babies and canvassing neighbors when a new polling system comes into force in January.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 07:06 PM CST

A partially damaged statue of a lion is seen in the ancient city of Babylon, some 100 kms south of Baghdad(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AP - As of Monday, Dec. 8, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Soldier pleads not guilty in Iraq detainee's death (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 06:53 PM CST

AP - One of two 101st Airborne Division soldiers charged in the shooting death of an Iraqi detainee pleaded not guilty Monday, but his attorney said a plea agreement is still possible.

Biographical sketches of 5 Blackwater guards (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 06:29 PM CST

AP - Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards in their mid- to late 20s, all with distinguished military records, are each charged with 14 counts of manslaughter and 20 counts of attempted manslaughter in the September 2007 deaths of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisoor Square.

Blackwater guards charged in Iraq shooting (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 05:54 PM CST

Former Blackwater Worldwide security guard Nick Slatter, (2nd L) and Donald Ball, (3rd L) arrive with their lawyers at the U.S. District Court before surrendering to authorities in Salt Lake City, Utah December 8, 2008. (Chris Detrick/Reuters)Reuters - Five Blackwater security guards were charged on Monday with killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding 20 others in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that outraged Iraqis and strained U.S.-Iraqi relations.

In glimpse of goal, U.S. lets Iraqis lead joint exercise (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 04:49 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The role of the U.S. military in Iraq over the next year could look a lot like the scene of a joint U.S.-Iraqi military patrol in a northwest Baghdad rail yard this weekend.

Blackwater convoy disobeyed order before shooting (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 02:36 PM CST

This file photograph taken in 2006 shows members of the US private security company Blackwater aboard a Hughes 500 helicopter securing the way of a US convoy in Baghdad. Five guards with Blackwater were charged with 35-counts of manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and weapons violations in the deaths of 17 Iraqis who were gunned down in a Baghdad square, the Justice Department said Monday.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AP - A Blackwater Worldwide convoy involved in a deadly shooting in a Baghdad intersection last year disobeyed an order when it left the U.S.-controlled Green Zone and attempted to shut down a busy traffic circle, prosecutors said Monday.

Basra vote aims to benefit from Iraq oil wealth: planner (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:41 PM CST

Iraqi soldiers hang a huge national flag from a roof at the Basra Palace in the southern city of Basra, in 2007. Plans to hold an autonomy referendum for the southern region of Basra aim to ensure that Iraq's economic nerve centre benefits from its oil wealth, the initiator of the referendum said on Monday.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - Plans to hold an autonomy referendum for the southern region of Basra aim to ensure that Iraq's economic nerve centre benefits from its oil wealth, the initiator of the referendum said on Monday.

Iraqis demand harsh penalty for Blackwater guards (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:15 PM CST

Sami Hawas, a 42-year-old taxi driver, and his 7-year-old son Mohammed, are seen at his home in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Hawas was shot in the chest and a leg while driving his cab at Baghdad's Nisoor square more than a year ago, when Blackwater Worldwide security guards shot dead 17 Iraqi civilians. Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards are charged with manslaughter and using a machine gun in a crime of violence. Though they are charged in a sealed indictment in Washington, they surrendered at a federal courthouse in Salt Lake City. The Justice Department is preparing to make the charges public later Monday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraqi victims of a deadly shooting last year in central Baghdad demanded the harshest penalty Monday for the Blackwater Worldwide guards charged in the case, saying punishment is needed to keep other security contractors from acting with impunity.

Hard times hit Iraq's Feast of the Sacrifice (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 08:04 AM CST

Iraqi men haggle over the price of a sheep at a livestock market in central Baghdad. At a time of year when Muslims sacrifice animals to mark the feast of Eid al-Adha at the end of the hajj, sheep in Iraq are almost worth their weight in gold because of drought and poor pastures.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - At a time of year when Muslims sacrifice animals to mark the feast of Eid al-Adha at the end of the hajj, sheep in Iraq are almost worth their weight in gold because of drought and poor pastures.

Iraq security contractors face end to immunity (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 06:25 AM CST

A U.S. soldier stands guard by a convoy travelling through Iraq's volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad August 17, 2008. (David Clarke/Reuters)Reuters - Private security guards in Iraq, whose armored convoys once barreled through the streets with impunity, could face being thrown into crowded and violent Iraqi jails once their era of legal immunity ends on January 1.

US: 4 suspected Shiite militants caught in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 04:47 AM CST

A partially damaged statue of a lion is seen in the ancient city of Babylon, some 100 kms south of Baghdad(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AP - The U.S. military says it has captured four suspected members of a Shiite militant group in Iraq allegedly trained and funded by Iran.

Obama May Find Iraq Manageable as Bush Agrees to Pullout Plan (Bloomberg)

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 11:01 PM CST

Bloomberg - Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama will inherit several crises when he becomes president on Jan. 20. Curiously, Iraq may prove to be the least of them.

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