2009年9月24日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Al-Qaida-linked inmates break out of Iraq prison (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 04:39 PM PDT

File picture shows US soldiers in central Tikrit. Sixteen Al-Qaeda members, including five who have been sentenced to death, escaped during the night from a prison in the heart of Tikrit in central Iraq, a security official said on Thursday(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)AP - U.S. aircraft and Iraqi patrols combined in a massive manhunt Thursday after the escape of 16 prisoners — including five al-Qaida-linked inmates awaiting execution — who apparently crawled through a bathroom window in a makeshift jail on a former compound of Saddam Hussein.

Court nixes $5M verdict against funeral protesters (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 02:59 PM PDT

AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out a $5 million verdict against protesters who carried signs with inflammatory messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers" outside the Maryland funeral of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq.

Iraq launches manhunt after 16 Al-Qaeda prisoners escape (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:14 AM PDT

An Iraqi traffic police officer checks the registration and papers of a vehicle during random checks in central Baghdad. Iraqi authorities launched a manhunt on Thursday after an apparent inside-job saw 16 Al-Qaeda members, including five awaiting execution, escape from prison overnight in Saddam Hussein's home town.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraqi authorities launched a manhunt on Thursday after an apparent inside-job saw 16 Al-Qaeda members, including five awaiting execution, escape from prison overnight in Saddam Hussein's home town.

Three police gunned down in northern Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 06:03 AM PDT

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in central Baghdad, January 2009. Three policemen were gunned down in separate incidents in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Three policemen were gunned down in separate incidents in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, a police official said.

Iraqi city under curfew after prison break (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 05:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi authorities imposed a vehicle ban and a curfew in a city north of Baghdad on Thursday after more than a dozen suspected al Qaeda militants climbed through a ventilation duct and broke free from jail.

Kuwait mulls Iraq investments on reparations issue (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 05:37 AM PDT

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed al-Sabah, seen here in February 2009, said that Kuwait is considering investments in Iraq as away of resolving a dispute over billions of dollars of war reparations owed by Baghdad for its 1990 invasion.(AFP/Pool/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Kuwait is considering investments in Iraq as away of resolving a dispute over billions of dollars of war reparations owed by Baghdad for its 1990 invasion, the foreign minister said on Thursday.

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