2009年8月7日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq bombs kill 50, mostly Shi'ites targeted (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 03:04 PM PDT

A resident looks at the site of bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad August 7, 2009. REUTERS/Ako RasheedReuters - A suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque just outside the volatile northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said on Friday, while bombs in Baghdad killed another 12.

No criminal charges in electrocution death (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:12 PM PDT

AP - No criminal charges will be filed against military contractor KBR Inc. in connection with the electrocution of a Green Beret soldier who died while showering in his barracks in Iraq, the Defense Department said Friday.

Dozens killed in bombings against Shiites in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:42 PM PDT

Iraqi policemen secure the scene of a road side bomb blast that hit a mini bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug 7, 2009. A series of roadside bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims returning from the southern holy city of Karbala struck the Iraqi capital Friday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A suicide truck bomber flattened a Shiite mosque Friday in northern Iraq, and roadside bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, as at least 51 people were killed and scores wounded nationwide.

Iraq rivals fence over deadly bank job (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:42 PM PDT

This file picture shows an unmanned police vehicle parked outside the Iraqi state-owned Al-Rafidain bank in central Baghdad in July 2009. The arrest of a bodyguard of Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi has turned a deadly bank heist into a political football just six months before general elections, throwing the spotlight on his powerful Shiite religious party.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The arrest of a bodyguard of Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi has turned a deadly bank heist into a political football just six months before general elections, throwing the spotlight on his powerful Shiite religious party.

Fourth Hiker Details How Friends Ended Up in Iran (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:42 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 6 (New America Media) - Three Americans, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal, have been missing since Jul. 31 after hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan and are reportedly being held by Iranian authorities. Bauer is a correspondent for New America Media. A fourth member of their party, Shon Meckfessel, did not join them that day and has now offered his statement on events.

47 Iraqis killed in Shiite holy day attacks (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 12:33 PM PDT

An Iraqi boy approaches a bus that was hit by a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City district where Shiite pilgrims were marking a key religious ceremony. A powerful car bomb killed at least 37 Shiite Muslims in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul on Friday in a wave of attacks that also killed 10 people in the capital Baghdad.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A powerful car bomb killed at least 37 Shiite Muslims in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul on Friday in a wave of attacks that also killed 10 people in the capital Baghdad.

Iraq Kurdish coalition has reduced majority: final results (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 10:06 AM PDT

An Iraqi Kurd receives a copy of the regional government's draft constitution in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. The two main parties in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region have a reduced majority in the regional assembly after their joint vote fell in the July 25 poll, the electoral commission said on Friday.(AFP/Safin Hamed)AFP - The two main parties in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region have a reduced majority in the regional assembly after their joint vote fell in the July 25 poll, the electoral commission said on Friday.

Huge Iraqi Shiite march peaceful, but bombs hit later (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 08:06 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - KARBALA, Iraq — Iraqi security forces oversaw the peaceful march Friday of more than 3 million Shiite Muslim worshippers who were honoring the birthday of one of their most important imams, the second large-scale religious event in the past month that was conducted safely without significant assistance from the American military.

Major attacks in Iraq since Jan. 1 (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 07:41 AM PDT

AP - Major bombings in Iraq since Jan. 1, when a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact took effect:

Car bomb kills 30 outside Shiite mosque in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 06:48 AM PDT

An Iraqi soldier guards a street in the city of Mosul in 2008. A powerful car bomb exploded outside a mosque in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers, killing at least 30 people and wounding 72, police said.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - A powerful car bomb exploded outside a mosque in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers, killing at least 30 people and wounding 72, police said.

(AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 04:47 AM PDT

AP - Iraqi police: Death toll in bombing near Shiite mosque in northern Iraq climbs to 20.

Four Shiite pilgrims killed in Baghdad attacks (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 03:44 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman reacts as she stands next to a bus that was hit by a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City district where Shiite pilgrims were marking a key religious ceremony. Four people were killed in Baghdad in a series of bomb attacks aimed at Shiite pilgrims marking a key religious ceremony, an interior ministry official said.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Four people were killed in Baghdad on Friday in a series of bomb attacks aimed at Shiite pilgrims marking a key religious ceremony, an interior ministry official said.

UK MP testifies on 'genocide' against Marsh Arabs (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 01:47 AM PDT

Baroness Emma Nicholson, seen here in 2005, has described witnessing AFP - A member of the British House of Lords has described witnessing "genocide" by executed dictator Saddam Hussein's regime against Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the early 1990s.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,331 (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:47 PM PDT

AP - As of Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, at least 4,331 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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