2009年9月4日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq sends thousands more police to Syrian border (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:38 PM PDT

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, left, leads U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, right, on a tour of the grounds of the foreign ministry building, damaged in one of twin truck bomb attacks on Aug. 19, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq has deployed thousands of reinforcements along its border with Syria to prevent insurgents from crossing the desert frontier, as the government said Friday it has provided Syria with evidence linking Iraqis there to bombings.


Chalabi aide: I went from White House to secret prison (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:51 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. authorities detained a top aide to former Iraqi exile leader and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi last year and accused him of helping Iranian-backed militants kidnap and kill American and British soldiers and contractors.

Ex-soldier gets life in prison for Iraqi assault (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:33 PM PDT

Reuters - A federal judge sentenced a former U.S. Army soldier to life in prison without parole on Friday for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaying of her family in 2006.

Ex-US soldier gets life for Iraqi girl's rape, murder (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:28 PM PDT

This December 2, 2005 photo obtained from the US Army shows then Pfc. Steven Green, preparing to blast a lock off the gate of an abandoned home during a search operation in Mullah Fayed, Iraq. Green will spend his life in prison for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family, a judge ruled Friday.(AFP/US Army-HO/File/Spc. George Welcome)AFP - A former US soldier will spend his life in prison for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family, a judge ruled Friday.


Ex-soldier gets 5 life sentences Iraqi deaths (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:15 PM PDT

Former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green, 24, of Midland, Texas, is taken in the back of the court building in Paducah, Ky. by US marshals Friday Sept. 4, 2009 for formal sentencing to  life in prison for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the shooting deaths of three of her family members. A civilian jury convicted Green in May of rape and multiple counts of murder for the deaths of the al-Janabi family on March 12, 2006. (AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)AP - A former soldier received five consecutive life sentences Friday for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the slaying of three of her family members.


Officials: Serbia may offer Iraq air force planes (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 11:26 AM PDT

AP - Serbia may offer Iraq some planes from its aging air force and train pilots to partly make up for fighter jets sent here for maintenance during the Saddam Hussein era that have now been deemed useless, officials said Friday.

US base in Iraq honors killed Oregon soldier (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 11:23 AM PDT

AP - An air passenger terminal at a base northeast of Baghdad has been named for a soldier from Oregon who died from injuries in the Iraq war.

Iraq attacks death toll rises to eight (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 12:09 AM PDT

Map showing locations of attacks Thursday. Eight people were killed and 57 wounded in two bomb attacks targeting Shiite Muslims in Iraq late on Thursday, the health chief in Babil province said on Friday(AFP graphic/Martin Megion/Js/Gal)AFP - Eight people were killed and 57 wounded in two bomb attacks targeting Shiite Muslims in Iraq late on Thursday, the health chief in Babil province said on Friday.


Maliki wants probe of Baghdad bombings (AFP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 08:04 PM PDT

Newly erected cement walls outside the Foreign Affairs Ministry building in Baghdad, several days after a huge truck bomb exploded near the facility. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is calling for an international probe of last month's deadly bomb attacks on two government ministries in the capital city, according to recently-viewed letters.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is calling for an international probe of last month's deadly bomb attacks on two government ministries in Baghdad, according to letters recently viewed here.


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