2009年5月7日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Ex-soldier convicted in Iraq rape, 4 slayings (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, July 13, 2006 file photo, Mohammed al-Janabi, the uncle of the girl allegedly raped and killed by American soldiers, displays death certificates and ID's on his niece's grave, in Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. A prosecutor in Paducah, Kentucky, on Wednesday, May 6, 2009, told jurors the slaying of an Iraqi family, including a teen daughter who was raped, was premeditated and asked the panel to convict former Pfc. Steven Dale Green, 24, of Midland, Texas, of crimes that could bring him the death penalty. Green is being tried in a civilian court because he was discharged from the Army before being charged.(AP Photo/Ali al-Mahmouri, File)AP - A federal jury convicted a former soldier Thursday of raping and fatally shooting a 14-year-old girl after killing her parents and younger sister while he was serving in Iraq.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,284 (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 04:07 PM PDT

AP - As of Thursday, May 7, 2009, at least 4,284 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Ex-U.S. soldier found guilty in Iraqi rape, deaths (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2009 03:32 PM PDT

Reuters - A former U.S. soldier was convicted on Thursday of raping an Iraqi girl and killing her and her family near Baghdad in 2006 and now faces a possible death sentence.

Ex US-soldier found guilty of rape, murder of Iraqi girl (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:58 PM PDT

Steven D. Green, a former Army soldier accused of the rape and murder of an Iraqi woman and in the killings of three of her family members, appears in this undated booking photo provided by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina. A US federal jury has found former soldier Steven Dale Green guilty.(AFP/Getty Images/HO/File)AFP - A US federal jury has found former soldier Steven Dale Green guilty of raping an Iraqi teenager and then executing the girl and her family, court officials said Thursday.

Afghan war costs to overtake Iraq in 2010: Pentagon (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:08 PM PDT

A US soldier mans a weapon at the rear of a US Army CH-47 helicopter as it flies in over Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The cost of running the war in Afghanistan, which President Barack Obama has prioritized, will exceed that of Iraq for the first time next year, Pentagon budget documents showed Thursday.(AFP/POOL/Jason Reed)AFP - The cost of fighting the war in Afghanistan will overtake that of the Iraq conflict for the first time in 2010, Pentagon budget documents showed Thursday.

Iraq: Firm once known as Blackwater exits Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 11:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, March 25, 2006 file photo, Blackwater security contractors guard former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, center, as he arrives at a community sports center in Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S. Embassy has confirmed that the security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide finished its work in Baghdad on Thursday, May 6, 2009. The company become a flashpoint for Iraqi anger after contractors killed 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg, File)AP - The American security firm once known as Blackwater ended its operations in the diplomatic hub of Baghdad on Thursday, bringing to a close a bitter chapter in U.S.-Iraqi relations that began with a deadly shooting by its contractors.

Iraq's wall-builders mourn drop in violence (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 09:35 AM PDT

A vehicle drives past concrete barriers set up along a main road in Baghdad. At the height of Iraq's sectarian fighting US and Iraqi forces erected a vast network of concrete walls and checkpoints that choked off dozens of Baghdad streets and isolated entire neighbourhoods.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Ahmed Obeid Ibrahim longs for the good old days in Iraq, when car bombs thundered across the city, sectarian militias ruled the streets and his concrete barrier business was booming.

Corruption seen at root of Iraq's lack of services (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2009 08:12 AM PDT

Reuters - Widespread corruption is at the root of Iraq's persistent, destabilizing lack of basic services, Deputy Prime Minister Rafie al-Esawi said on Thursday. "The biggest challenge is not just the budget, which we were obliged to cut because of the drop in oil income, so that's beyond our control, but also corruption," he said.

US security firm Blackwater ends Iraq operation (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 08:07 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman walks past the remains of a car that was destroyed by Blackwater security guards in September 2007. US security firm Blackwater ended its operations in Iraq on Thursday, closing a controversial era for the company whose guards shot dead 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - US security firm Blackwater ended its operations in Iraq on Thursday, closing a controversial era for the company whose guards shot dead 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007.

Future of Guantanamo dominates war spending debate (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 03:27 PM PDT

AP - The future of 241 terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay military prison dominated a Capitol Hill war spending debate Thursday, as Republicans warned that the Obama administration was preparing to release dangerous killers into American neighborhoods and Democrats accused the GOP of fear-mongering.

(AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 03:24 AM PDT

AP - US Embassy confirms expiration of Baghdad contract for security firm once known as Blackwater.

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