2009年5月21日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Jury spares ex-soldier's life for Iraq rape, murders (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 07:01 PM PDT

Steven D. Green, a former Army soldier accused of the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and killings three of her family members, appears in this undated booking photo provided by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina. A Kentucky jury has handed life imprisonment to Green, sparing him from the death sentence.(AFP/Getty Images/HO/File)AFP - A Kentucky jury has handed a former US soldier a sentence of life in prison for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family, sparing him from the death sentence.

Ex-soldier spared death sentence for Iraq murders (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 06:45 PM PDT

US marshals take former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green of Midland, Texas, out the back of the court building after Green got life in prison Thursday May 21, 2009 in Paducah, Ky. Green who was convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family was spared the death penalty Thursday and will serve a life sentence after jurors couldn't agree unanimously on a punishment. (AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)AP - An ex-soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family was spared the death penalty Thursday and will serve a life sentence after jurors couldn't agree unanimously on a punishment for a brutal crime that the defense blamed partly on combat stress and a lack of military leadership.

Senate backs $91.3 billion Iraq, Afghan war bill (Reuters)

Posted: 21 May 2009 05:54 PM PDT

A resident looks at U.S. soldiers patrolling in the town of Jalawla, during a joint military operation with the Iraqi army in Diyala province, 115 km (70 miles) northeast of Baghdad May 17, 2009. REUTERS/Saad ShalashReuters - The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a $91.3 billion measure sought by President Barack Obama to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,299 (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 05:08 PM PDT

AP - As of Thursday, May 21, 2009, at least 4,299 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 gets life sentence for Iraq murders (Reuters)

Posted: 21 May 2009 04:27 PM PDT

Reuters - A former U.S. soldier convicted of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and her family will be sentenced to life in prison after a jury on Thursday failed to agree on whether he should be executed.

Mourners pay tribute to Md. soldier killed in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 03:18 PM PDT

Clyde Deese, a relative of Pfc. Michael E. Yates, hugs Sgt. First Class Wayne Tatum during funeral services for Yates , Thursday, May 21, 2009, in Federalsburg, Md. Yates was one of five soldiers shot to death in a military clinic in Iraq by a U.S. soldier last week. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP - A 19-year-old Maryland soldier who was one of five killed in Iraq by an Army sergeant at a mental health clinic was remembered Thursday as a strongly loyal family member who excelled at making people laugh and enjoyed hunting and fishing.

Ex-US soldier spared death for Iraq rape, murders: jury (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 03:07 PM PDT

Steven D. Green, a former Army soldier accused of the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and killings three of her family members, appears in this undated booking photo provided by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina. A Kentucky jury has handed life imprisonment to Green, sparing him from the death sentence.(AFP/Getty Images/HO/File)AFP - A Kentucky jury Thursday handed life imprisonment to a former US soldier for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family, sparing him from the death sentence.

3 US soldiers, dozens of Iraqis killed by bombings (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 02:08 PM PDT

Awakening Council member examine the scene of a suicide bombing in Kirkuk, Iraq, Thursday, May 21, 2009. A suicide bomber has killed six U.S. backed Sunni paramilitaries, called Awakening Councils, who were waiting in a line in the northern city of Kirkuk to receive their monthly salaries, a police official said. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)AP - Bombers struck in Baghdad and a northern city Thursday, killing three American soldiers and nearly two dozen Iraqis in a new spasm of violence that has taken at least 66 lives in two days.

Reid named AP news director in Kabul (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 10:02 AM PDT

AP - Robert H. Reid, The Associated Press bureau chief in Baghdad, has been appointed to a new position heading AP's coverage in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Wave of bombings in Iraq kills at least 63 (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 21 May 2009 08:45 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Kadoon Quddori was sipping juice at an outdoor cafe Wednesday night when he saw a police officer wave a car away from an illegal parking space. Minutes later, he glanced back and saw the car again. It's the last thing he remembers from the night.

Wave of Iraq bombings kill 66 (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 08:07 AM PDT

Residents gather to inspect the debris and destruction following last night's car bomb in the mainly Shiite Shula quarter of Baghdad. Iraq was engulfed in a wave of violence, with suicide attackers and bombings killing 26 people including three US soldiers, a day after huge blast in a Baghdad Shiite area left 40 dead.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq was engulfed in a wave of violence on Thursday, with suicide attackers and bombings killing 26 people including three US soldiers, a day after huge blast in a Baghdad Shiite area left 40 dead.

Iraq bombs kill 22, including 3 U.S. soldiers (Reuters)

Posted: 21 May 2009 07:45 AM PDT

Relatives of a victim grieve outside a morgue after a bomb attack in Baghdad's Shula district May 21, 2009. A parked car bomb ripped through the poor mostly Shi'ite district of Shula in northwest Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 35 people and wounding 72 others near a popular restaurant, police said. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Suicide bombers killed at least 22 people, including three U.S. soldiers, in the Iraqi capital and the northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday, officials said.

US soldiers charged over Spanish journalist's death (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 07:29 AM PDT

An undated handout of Spanish news cameraman Jose Couso who was killed in Baghdad. A Spanish judge revived murder charges against three US soldiers over the killing Couso during the shelling of a Baghdad hotel in 2003.(AFP/File/null)AFP - A Spanish judge on Thursday revived murder charges against three US soldiers over the killing a Spanish television cameraman during the shelling of a Baghdad hotel in 2003.

Three US soldiers killed in Baghdad attack (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 06:40 AM PDT

A US soldier in Baghdad. Three American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack near a market in southern Baghdad.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov)AFP - Three American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack near a market in southern Baghdad on Thursday, the US military said in a statement.

Spain: new homicide charges against US soldiers (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 10:03 AM PDT

AP - A Spanish judge reinstated charges Thursday against three American soldiers in the death of a Spanish journalist covering the Iraq invasion in 2003.

Baghdad, Kirkuk suicide bombers kill 19: police (Reuters)

Posted: 21 May 2009 04:18 AM PDT

Steven D. Green, a former Army soldier accused of the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and killings three of her family members, appears in this undated booking photo provided by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina. A Kentucky jury has handed life imprisonment to Green, sparing him from the death sentence.(AFP/Getty Images/HO/File)Reuters - Suicide bombers killed at least 19 people in Iraq on Thursday in separate attacks in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk, security officials said, underscoring the fragility of Iraq's security gains.

(AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 03:48 AM PDT

AP - U.S. military says roadside bomb kills 3 soldiers, wounds nine in southern Baghdad.

Suicide attack kills 12 at Baghdad market (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 02:01 AM PDT

Iraqis carry a coffin of a relative killed after a bomb attack in Baghdad. Iraq was engulfed by a wave of violence, with suicide and bomb attacks killing 23 people a day after a massive bomb devastated a Baghdad Shiite neighbourhood slaughtering 40 civilians.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and wounded 25 others in an attack on a market in southern Baghdad on Thursday, security officials said.

Toll in Baghdad car blast rises to 40 dead (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 12:29 AM PDT

Family members weep as they collect the bodies of loved ones the morning after a car bomb ripped through the mainly Shiite Shula quarter of Baghdad. The toll in the blast that tore through a Baghdad street full of diners has risen to 40 dead and 83 wounded, a security official said, updating earlier statistics.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The toll in a powerful car bomb that tore through a Baghdad street full of diners has risen to 40 dead and 83 wounded, a security official said, updating earlier statistics.

Iraq suicide attack kills seven militiamen (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 12:05 AM PDT

Sahwa militiamen follow US troops in Baghdad's Fadel district in March. A suicide bomber killed seven members of Sahwa, an anti-Qaeda militia, and wounded four others as they gathered to collect their salaries in Iraq's tense northern city of Kirkuk, officials said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - A suicide bomber killed seven members of an anti-Qaeda militia and wounded four others as they gathered to collect their salaries in Iraq's tense northern city of Kirkuk, officials said.

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