2009年6月7日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq
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Iraqis detain 5 US contractors in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 05:01 PM PDT

A US soldier patrols south of Baghdad in March 2008. An American soldier died following a grenade attack on his patrol in northern Iraq's tense city of Kirkuk.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AP - Five U.S. contractors have been detained in the investigation of the slaying of another American in Baghdad's Green Zone, officials said Sunday, in what may become the first case of U.S. citizens facing Iraqi justice under a security agreement that took effect this year.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,311 (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT

AP - As of Sunday, June 7, 2009, at least 4,311 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

APNewsBreak: Major problems found in war spending (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 04:22 PM PDT

US soldiers pack as they prepare to leave their base in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Under an agreement with Iraqi government, all US combat troops must leave Iraqi cities to garrisons outside the towns by the June 30 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - This is one Christmas gift U.S. taxpayers don't need. Construction of a $30 million dining facility at a U.S. base in Iraq is scheduled to be completed Dec. 25. But the decision to build it was based on bad planning and botched paperwork.


Iraqi forces arrest five U.S. security contractors (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2009 07:59 AM PDT

A U.S. soldier walks past a man during a patrol in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad June 2, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ MILITARY POLITICS)Reuters - Iraqi forces detained five U.S. security contractors in connection with the killing of a fellow American contractor last month in Baghdad's Green Zone, an Iraqi government spokesman said on Sunday.


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