2009年9月5日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

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

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 03:58 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.

Politicians in Denmark offer help to Iraqis facing expulsion (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 10:52 AM PDT

Danish police clash with demonstrators supporting of a group of rejected Iraqi asylum seekers early in August 2009 outside of Brorsons Church in Copenhagen. Left-wing politicians in Denmark offered Saturday to help Iraqis facing expulsion, after the forced return of 22 asylum-seekers this week fanned a furore in the Scandinavian nation.(AFP/SCANPIX/File/Andreas Hagemann Bro)AFP - Left-wing politicians in Denmark offered Saturday to help Iraqis facing expulsion, after the forced return of 22 asylum-seekers this week fanned a furore in the Scandinavian nation.

Hundreds protest against proposed US-Iraq-Kurd force (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 10:05 AM PDT

Iraqis protest in Hawija, some 50 kms west of the northern city of Kirkuk, against the deployment of different security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga, US and Iraqi forces, to maintain security in the oil-rich city. Hundreds of Iraqi Arabs took to the streets.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Hundreds of Arabs demonstrated in northern Iraq on Saturday against the prospect of American soldiers teaming up with Iraqi and Kurdish troops to patrol the region's disputed zones.

Iraqi Arabs protest US plan for Kurdish patrols (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 08:29 AM PDT

Protesters gather in Hawija to protest a proposed joint military presence in disputed areas of northern Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009. Hundreds of Sunni Arabs opposed to the presence of Kurdish troops in disputed areas of northern Iraq demonstrated Saturday against a plan to deploy a mixed force of American, Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers in the area. The banner at right, in Arabic, reads: 'The city council of Hawija rejects the entrance of joint forces.' (AP Photo)AP - Hundreds of Sunni Arabs opposed to the presence of Kurdish troops in disputed areas of northern Iraq demonstrated Saturday against a U.S. proposal to deploy a mixed force of American, Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers in the area.

Iraq boosts security on Syrian border (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2009 08:07 AM PDT

An Iraqi soldier patrols the town of Singar -- near the border with Syria -- in 2006. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has sent extra troops to secure the border with Syria and hit out at countries he says are giving terrorists the shelter needed to mount attacks inside Iraq.(AFP/File/Hassan Ammar)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has sent extra troops to secure the border with Syria and on Saturday hit out at countries he says are giving terrorists the shelter needed to mount attacks inside Iraq.

Basra alcohol ban triggers fear among Christians (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 09:52 PM PDT

An Iraqi man walks past the half empty shelves in his shop in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra. Alcohol vendors among the shrinking Christian community in Basra fear for their future after city councillors banned the sale of alcohol.(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - Alcohol vendors among the shrinking Christian community of Iraq's mostly Shiite southern oil hub of Basra fear for their future after city councillors banned the sale of alcohol.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,339 (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 05:39 PM PDT

AP - As of Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, at least 4,339 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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