2009年11月25日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


British inquiry hears of Iraq WMD doubts (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 10:04 AM PST

Tony Blair (C) jumps from a tank after meeting troops at a British Army base near Basra in Iraq, in 2004. Britain was told days before invading Iraq that its weapons of mass destruction may have been unusable, a top official told a public inquiry Wednesday, adding the overall intelligence picture was patchy.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Britain was told days before invading Iraq that its weapons of mass destruction may have been unusable, a top official told a public inquiry Wednesday, adding the overall intelligence picture was patchy.


Officials say Iraq not UK's main worry before war (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 09:31 AM PST

Anti-war protesters from the 'Stop the War' group, wearing masks depicting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, center and former US president George W. Bush, left, pose for the photographers, outside the conference center where the Iraq war inquiry is taking place, in central London, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009. In the most sweeping inquiry by any nation involved in the Iraq war, a panel investigating Britain's role in the conflict begins questioning witnesses Tuesday in hearings that critics hope will humble former Prime Minister Tony Blair and expose alleged deception in the buildup to conflict. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Iran and Libya, not Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, were Britain's main security concerns before the invasion of Iraq, Foreign Office officials testified Wednesday at an inquiry probing Britain's role in the war.


Kuwait, Iraq discuss border oilfields (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 07:22 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers damaged Kuwaiti oil wells after their seven-month occupation in 1991. Iraq and Kuwait are engaged in AFP - Iraq and Kuwait are engaged in "technical negotiations" to strike a deal over production from border oilfields that have been at the heart of previous conflicts, a Kuwaiti oil official has said.


6 family members killed in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 06:56 AM PST

U.S. Army Freedom Team Salute Ambassadors (l-r) Barbara Foelber, Amanda Schildt, and Kaitlin Merritt display some of the thousands of thank you cards sent to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for the Thanksgiving Holiday. (Photo: U.S. Army Freedom Team Salute)AP - Assailants broke into a house and killed six family members before dawn Wednesday in an area north of Baghdad that was once a stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq, Iraqi officials said.


U.S., U.N. present proposals to end Iraq vote impasse (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 05:26 AM PST

Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi attends the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Sharm el-Sheikh July 15, 2009. REUTERS/Khaled El Fiqi/PoolReuters - U.S. and U.N. officials have proposed solutions to Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president to stop him vetoing for a second time a law needed for an election to take place next year, an official said on Wednesday.


Three women among six killed in Iraq attack (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 05:18 AM PST

Iraqi women look on as police commandos patrol the southern city of Karbala. Iraqi police said unknown attackers broke into a house and slit the throats of two women in a brutal killing in which four other people including a teenage girl were gunned down.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Unknown attackers on Wednesday broke into a house and slit the throats of two women in a brutal Iraqi killing in which four other people including a teenage girl were gunned down, police said.


26 wounded in twin bombs in Iraq shrine city (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 11:38 PM PST

An Iraqi soldier stands guard along a highway near Karbala. Two bombs within minutes of each other exploded at a restaurant early Wednesday in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, wounding at least 26 people, police and medical officials said.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Two bombs within minutes of each other exploded at a restaurant early Wednesday in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, wounding at least 26 people, police and medical officials said.


UK Iraq war inquiry: Will Tony Blair come under fire? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Britain's official inquiry into the Iraq war got under way in London on Tuesday, but it's not likely to satisfy many of those who have long been awaiting it.
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