2009年12月13日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq: No time to act after US tip before blasts (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 12:11 PM PST

Iraqis inspect a destroyed police car after a car bomb attack in Fallujah, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. A car packed with explosives blew up near a passing police patrol. (AP Photo)AP - The U.S. military had warned of an imminent attack hours before last week's deadly bombings in Baghdad, but the tip came too late to act on, Iraqi security officials said Sunday as outraged lawmakers pressed for answers about Iraq's ability to protect the capital.


Iraq says 13 to be executed over Baghdad blasts (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 11:23 AM PST

Iraqi security forces stop cars at a checkpoint in the capital Baghdad. Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said on Sunday that 13 people arrested in connection with deadly bombings in Baghdad in August are to be executed, as Iraq's security chiefs were grilled by MPs.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said on Sunday that 13 people arrested for deadly bombings in Baghdad last August are to be executed, as Iraq's security chiefs were grilled by MPs.


Iraq will be 'big player' at OPEC meet: US diplomat (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 08:18 AM PST

A trail of smoke rises from the flame of the Al-Dora oil refinery complex in Baghdad in 2008. Iraq will be a AFP - Iraq will be a "big player" at OPEC's meeting in Angola later this month over its allocated crude production quota following a string of deals with oil majors, a senior US embassy official said on Sunday.


Blair Iraq war admission sparks fresh outrage (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 07:32 AM PST

A protestor sets fire to a mask representing former British prime minister Tony Blair. Blair's admission that Britain would have backed the Iraq war even if he knew it did not have weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has sparked outrage and calls for his prosecution for war crimes.(AFP/File/Frantzesco Kangaris)AFP - Tony Blair's admission that Britain would have backed the Iraq war even if he knew it did not have weapons of mass destruction sparked outrage Sunday and calls for his prosecution for war crimes.


Iraqis skeptical about glittering promise of oil (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 07:21 AM PST

Reuters - Iraq's leaders expect a flood of petrodollars from oil deals to lift the country out of poverty after years of conflict and corruption but few Iraqis are convinced.

Petraeus sees shift in Al Qaeda's Iraq tactics (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 05:50 AM PST

People walk at the site of a bomb attack in central Baghdad December 9, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Fewer foreign volunteers are making it into Iraq to fight with Al Qaeda against the U.S.-backed government but the group has switched to fewer but more deadly attacks, U.S. General David Petraeus said on Sunday.


Four killed in Iraq bombings (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:27 AM PST

Security forces inspect the secene of a car bomb blast in Fallujah in July. Four people including a young girl and an army recruit were killed in bombings across Iraq, police and medical officials have said.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Four people including a young girl and an army recruit were killed in bombings across Iraq on Sunday, police and medical officials said.


Saddam's lawyers seek Blair prosecution over war (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2009 02:09 AM PST

Lawyers for the overthrown Iraqi leadership have asked England's attorney general for consent to prosecute Tony Blair (pictured in September), claiming a new interview revealed offences contrary to the Geneva Conventions.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)AFP - Lawyers for the overthrown Iraqi leadership have asked England's attorney general for consent to prosecute Tony Blair, claiming a new interview revealed offences contrary to the Geneva Conventions.


Blair will give Iraq war evidence in public: inquiry (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:18 PM PST

A protestor sets fire to a mask representing former British prime minister Tony Blair. Britain's Iraq war inquiry said Sunday the former prime minister would be questioned AFP - Britain's Iraq war inquiry said Sunday that former prime minister Tony Blair would be questioned "very much in public" amid fears that crucial evidence would only be heard in private.


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