2009年11月29日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Saddam ordered Radio Free Europe attack in Prague (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 02:28 PM PST

Reuters - Saddam Hussein ordered his secret agents to attack the Prague headquarters of U.S. run Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to end broadcasting to Iraq, a Czech intelligence service spokesman said Sunday.

Blair denies govt attorney advised Iraq war was 'illegal' (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:08 PM PST

Tony Blair on Sunday denied a report that the British government's chief legal adviser told him before the start of the Iraq War that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Tony Blair on Sunday denied a report that the British government's chief legal adviser told him before the start of the Iraq War that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law.


Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' hits Iraq TV (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 12:13 PM PST

This image taken from al-Lafeta TV channel on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009,   former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein center pose with his sons Uday, left  and Qusay right.  The channel is broadcast on a satellite station that alternately calls itself 'al-Arabi' ('An Arab') and 'al-Lafeta' ('The banner'). It began broadcasting across the Arab world on Friday, the first day of Eid al-Adha, an important holiday of the Islamic calendar,  and the anniversary of Saddam's execution by hanging three years ago.(AP Photo/ al-Lafeta)AP - Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Saddam Hussein.


US soldier dies of noncombat injuries in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 05:33 AM PST

AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier in Iraq has died of injuries unrelated to combat.

Murder, threats mark judge's life in violent N.Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 12:30 AM PST

Reuters - Like judges anywhere, Mosul's lead investigative judge is a harried man with stacks of files on his desk and dozens of visitors milling outside his office.

US soldiers: Afghan war more challenging than Iraq (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 07:05 PM PST

In this Thursday Nov. 19, 2009, photo Sgt. Michael McCann from Enterprise. Ala., of the 118th Airborne MP Company, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan wars, watches as a driver is stopped at a checkpoint near the town of Balisal Afghan, Logar province, Afghanistan. Soldiers and officers involved in combat operations all cite the more punishing geography and climate, those focused on development the bare-bones infrastructure, and intelligence specialists the even greater difficulties in identifying the insurgents as among the many sharp contrasts between Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalted highways, sweltering in flat scrublands and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world.


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