2009年9月2日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US extends Iraq contract for Blackwater firm (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:29 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2007, file photo, Blackwater USA founder, Erik Prince, testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. The private contractor had won the government's confidence by handling security and training operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the decision, revived by CIA in 2004, to use the private contractor as part ofits now-abandoned secret program to kill or capture terrorists in sensitive overseas operations, struck some former agency officials as highly unusual. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File)AP - The State Department said Wednesday it has extended a contract for protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA even though the company doesn't have a license to operate in the country.

Government extends work by Blackwater successor in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 04:23 PM PDT

Reuters - The State Department said on Wednesday it has asked the company formerly known as Blackwater to continue providing security services to U.S. diplomats in Iraq because the company hired to replace it was not ready to take over.

Bloodshed at Iranian camp tests US-Iraq transition (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 02:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2009 file photo provided by the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, Iraqi security forces clash with protesters opposition group's camp northeast of Baghdad. The July 28 Iraqi raid against the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran at an iron-gated camp north of Baghdad underscores potential pitfalls as the American military assumes a peacekeeping role with markedly less influence over the Iraqis under a security pact that replaced the U.N. mandate for U.S.-led forces. (AP Photo/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)AP - The women formed a human chain while the men chanted, confronting Iraqi troops moving into their compound. Gunfire rang out, and the soldiers waded in with batons, wooden bats and automatic weapons.

Iraq authorities have suspected dead hostage: Britain (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 02:01 PM PDT

A security man guards the entrance of the British Embassy in Baghdad in 2007. Iraqi authorities have received a body which they believe is one of the five British hostages kidnapped in May 2007, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Wednesday.(AFP/Pool/File/Khalid Mohammed)AFP - Iraqi authorities have received a body which they believe is one of the five British hostages kidnapped in 2007, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday.

UK says it has been given remains in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 12:38 PM PDT

In this July 28, 2009 file photo provided by the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, Iraqi police clash with protesters opposition group's camp northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Residents say Iraqi forces have raided a camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group north of Baghdad. The July 28 Iraqi raid against the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran at an iron-gated camp north of Baghdad underscores potential pitfalls as the American military assumes a peacekeeping role with markedly less influence over the Iraqis under a security pact that replaced the U.N. mandate for U.S.-led forces.(AP Photo/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)AP - The remains of one of five British hostages have been handed over to British authorities in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said Wednesday. The British government said it had received remains but had yet to determine their identity.

Iraqi warplanes sent to Serbia by Saddam unfit to fly: Belgrade (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 10:57 AM PDT

An Iraqi boy cycles past the tail wing of a destroyed MIG-21 fighter jet in Dhuluiya, some 75 kms (45 miles) north of Baghdad, on the road that leads to toppled leader Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, in 2003. Serbia confirmed that Iraq was interested in recovering warplanes that Saddam Hussein's regime sent to the then Yugoslavia for servicing 20 years ago, but said they were not airworthy.(AFP/File/Marwan Naamani)AFP - Serbia confirmed on Wednesday that Iraq was interested in recovering warplanes that Saddam Hussein's regime sent to the then Yugoslavia for servicing 20 years ago, but said they were not airworthy.

Turkish FM says talks in Iraq and Syria were 'positive' (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 10:36 AM PDT

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (L) stands along side Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari during a joint press conference in Baghdad, on August 31, 2009. Davutoglu said on Wednesday he felt positive about his visits to Syria and Iraq aimed at defusing tensions between the neighbours after Iraqi claims that Damascus was sheltering insurgents.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday he felt positive about his visits to Syria and Iraq aimed at defusing tensions between the neighbours after Iraqi claims that Damascus was sheltering insurgents.

4 Iraqi security personnel to hang for bank heist (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 10:03 AM PDT

Iraqi policemen stand guard outside a bank in central Baghdad, Iraq, that was the site of a July robbery, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. A Baghdad court on Wednesday sentenced four members of Iraq's security forces to death for their roles in the bank heist that left eight bank guards dead. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)AP - Four members of Iraq's security forces were convicted Wednesday of robbing a Baghdad bank and killing eight guards and were sentenced to hang in a trial that could leave behind considerable political fallout.

Four sentenced to die for deadly Iraq bank robbery (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:36 AM PDT

A police vehicle is parked outside the Iraqi state-owned Al-Rafidain bank in central Baghdad's Karrada shopping district in July 2009. An Iraqi court has sentenced to death four Iraqi security force members for a multi-million dollar bank robbery in Baghdad during which eight police guards were killed.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A court sentenced four Iraqi security force members to death on Wednesday for Iraq's bloodiest ever bank robbery, in which eight police guards were shot dead and millions of dollars stolen.

A year on, Reuters cameraman still held by U.S. army (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 03:31 AM PDT

Reuters - On September 2, 2008, U.S. and Iraqi troops smashed in the doors of Iraqi journalist Ibrahim Jassam's home, shouting "freeze" and holding back snarling dogs before they hauled him off into the night in his underwear.

(AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 12:38 AM PDT

AP - Iraqi court sentences 4 members of security forces to death in bank heist

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,337 (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 06:00 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, at least 4,337 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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