2009年6月13日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US Embassy: 2 more US contractors released in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 11:09 AM PDT

This undated photo released by the family via the Houston Chronicle shows Jim Kitterman, 60, of Houston. Kitterman ,a construction company owner from Houston, was found blindfolded, bound and stabbed on May 22, 2009 in his car in in Baghdad's Green Zone. (AP Photo/Family photo via the Houston Chronicle)AP - Two more U.S. contractors have been released on bond but face an ongoing investigation, the embassy said Saturday, the latest development in the first case of Americans facing Iraqi justice under a new security pact.

Iraqi leaders rally after murder of Sunni lawmaker (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 10:33 AM PDT

Men cry over the coffin of Iraqi lawmaker Harith al-Obeidi, the leader of the largest Sunni bloc in parliament, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 13, 2009. Iraq's top leaders in a show of solidarity attended the funeral Saturday of a prominent Sunni lawmaker assassinated outside a mosque, in an attack seen as an attempt to destabilize sectarian relations in the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The government Saturday blamed al-Qaida in Iraq for killing a prominent Sunni lawmaker as leaders across the sectarian divide rallied together, deploring the murder and pledging to prevent a new wave of religious violence that once plunged the country to the brink of civil war.

Iraq hopes to repeat Asian success at S.Africa clash (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:50 AM PDT

The Iraqi national football team trains at the Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg. If ever a team had extra motivation to perform well on the pitch it is Iraq, who are hoping to emulate their 2007 Asian Cup success at the Confederations Cup starting with victory over hosts South Africa here on Sunday.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)AFP - If ever a team had extra motivation to perform well on the pitch it is Iraq, who are hoping to emulate their 2007 Asian Cup success at the Confederations Cup starting with victory over hosts South Africa here on Sunday.

Iraq opens military ops centre ahead of US pullout (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:19 AM PDT

A US soldier carries a box of his belongings as his unit clears out of their joint security station in preparation to hand control of the base to the Iraqi army in Baghdad's Sadr City. Iraq has set up a joint command centre with the US military to coordinate operations after American forces withdraw from Iraqi cities and towns at the end of June, a senior official has told AFP.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq on Saturday set up a joint command centre with the US military to coordinate operations after American forces withdraw from Iraqi cities and towns at the end of June, a senior official told AFP.

Iraqi PM leads mourning for slain MP (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:38 AM PDT

Iraqi army soldiers stand guard over the coffin of Iraqi MP Harith al-Obaidi and another victim of the same attack during their funeral in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has led mourners at the funeral of MP Harith al-Obaidi, who was shot dead a day earlier in a Baghdad mosque.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki led mourners on Saturday at the funeral of lawmaker Harith al-Obaidi, who was shot dead a day earlier in a Baghdad mosque.

US mil: American soldier killed by bomb in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 12:41 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

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