2009年10月8日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


From Iraq to the Classroom: Turning Troops into Teachers (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 01:25 PM PDT

Time.com - After 30 years in the military, Roosevelt Dickerson wasn�t looking for a new career challenge

Family wants answers after Ohio soldier's suicide (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 11:36 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by his family shows Kieffer Wilhelm, a 19-year-old Army private from Willard, Ohio, who killed himself in Iraq in August 2009. Military investigators say Wilhelm had been a target of four soldiers who were mistreating some of the men in their platoon, but they also concluded the alleged misconduct didn't cause Wilhelm's death. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Adrian Shane Wilhelm)AP - Just about everyone in Keiffer Wilhelm's life — his father, his brother, his best friends — had worn a military uniform or grew up around someone who did.


Families exiled by Saddam return to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:41 AM PDT

Los Angeles Police Department officer Julianne H. Sohn gestures while posing for a photo in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Sohn, the lone female Marine officer discharged under the policy last year, was a lieutenant who had served a seven-month tour in Iraq as a reservist when she received a telephone call at home from a lieutenant colonel informing her she was under investigation for being a lesbian. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - Twenty families who were sent into exile in Iran by Saddam Hussein following a failed uprising returned Thursday to Iraq, another sign of Baghdad's warming relations with Tehran.


Five killed in Iraq bombings (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 08:59 AM PDT

A policeman from the Rusafa district displays a weapons cache seized in Wihda, south of Baghdad. Five people were killed, including two policemen, and 13 others wounded in two attacks in Iraq on Thursday, police officials said.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Five people were killed, including two policemen, and 13 others wounded in two attacks in Iraq on Thursday, police officials said.


Iraq agrees terms with BP and CNPC on oil deal (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 07:37 AM PDT

An Iraqi oil worker adjusts some controls at an oil refinery in the southern Rumaila area in 2007. Iraq's oil ministry has said it has agreed commercial terms for a key deal with Britain's BP and China's CNPC International to almost triple production at a giant southern oilfield.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - Iraq's oil ministry said on Thursday it had agreed commercial terms for a key deal with Britain's BP and China's CNPC International to almost triple production at a giant southern oilfield.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,349 (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 06:15 PM PDT

AP - As of Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, at least 4,349 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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