2009年9月21日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

After years of war, Iraqis hit by frenzy of crime (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:25 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 by the Muhsin family shows Muhsin Mohammed Muhsin, who was beheaded by kidnappers. Iraqis, who have begun to cautiously resume normal routines of life they abandoned as sectarian violence peaked in 2006 and 2007, are being engulfed again, this time by a frenzy of violent crime. (AP Photo/Muhsin family)AP - The kidnappers holding an Iraqi auto mechanic's 11-year-old son gave him just two days to come up with $100,000 in ransom. When he could not, they were just as quick to deliver their punishment: They chopped off the boy's head and hands and dumped his body in the garbage.

Iraqi shoe thrower wants to move to Switzerland (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:15 PM PDT

Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush, gives a press conference at the al-Baghdadia offices in Baghdad on September 15, 2009. Zaidi said in an interview that he wants to move to Switzerland and rally Iraqis to take the ex-US president to court.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The Iraqi journalist who was jailed for throwing his shoes at George W. Bush said in an interview that he wants to move to Switzerland and rally Iraqis to take the ex-US president to court.

Iraqi Shiite leader appeals for unity before vote (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 09:17 AM PDT

A US Blackhawk helicopter takes off on the outskirts of Baghdad in 2008. One US serviceman was killed and 12 others injured when a Blackhawk helicopter crashed inside a US base north of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AP - The leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party sought Monday to shore up political support before January's elections, urging his rivals to join him and resist what he called threats to their unity.

Inquiry examines Iraqi's death in military custody (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 08:26 AM PDT

An Afghan migrant on a swing beside his shelter in the woods near the harbour of Calais, northern France, September 21, 2009. Hundreds of undocumented foreigners, from countries affected by war and insecurity such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia, camp in makeshift settlements in the woods near Calais from which they stage nightly attempts to cross the English Channel in the hope of entering Britain, according to the U.N. High Commission for Refugees. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE SOCIETY CONFLICT POLITICS)AP - British officials may have condoned the harsh and abusive interrogation techniques that led to the death of a prisoner in the army's custody, lawyers representing the man's family alleged Monday.

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