2009年12月4日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Ex-ambassador to Iraq named dean of A&M school (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 04:11 PM PST

AP - Texas A&M University has named former U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker as dean of its Bush School of Government and Public Service.

Iranian group: Health care blocked at Iraq camp (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 11:32 AM PST

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 MEA - An Iraqi soldier on a donkey is pulled by a resident during a mission in a town southwest of Baghdad February 14, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - Members of an Iranian opposition group claimed Friday that Iraqi authorities are limiting their access to outside health care at a camp in northern Iraq where they have been under watch since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.


Iraq buys border security system for Iran, Syria frontiers (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 09:47 AM PST

Seen from the Iraq border, Iranian border guards man their stations at the Khosrawi border crossing also known as the Munthriya border crossing in the Diyala province of eastern Iraq in 2008. Iraq has bought a 49-million-dollar border surveillance system to better secure its porous frontiers with neighbouring Iran and Syria, the US military said on Friday.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Iraq has bought a 49-million-dollar border surveillance system to better secure its porous frontiers with neighbouring Iran and Syria, the US military said on Friday.


Soldier charged in 2 NY murders had dead man's car (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 02:05 PM PST

This undated photo released by the Scioto County Sheriff's Office shows Joshua Hunter, 20, of Watertown, N.Y., a Fort Drum, N.Y., soldier. Hunter was arrested at a hotel in southern Ohio, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, on a warrant charging him in Tuesday's stabbing deaths of two fellow servicemen, Waide James, 20, and Diego Valbuena, 23, in northern New York. (AP Photo/Scioto County Sheriff's Office)AP - A Fort Drum military policeman accused of stabbing to death two Army buddies at their apartment fled to Ohio in a car belonging to one victim and admitted to an investigator that he killed them, authorities said Friday.


Iraqi counterterror chief falls to his prey (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 08:33 AM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday, July. 1, 2009, Lt. Col. Ahmed Subhi Al-Fahal, front center, and his son Maathe Ahmed, 10, front right chief of anti- terrorism and riot forces parade in Tikrit, Iraq. Al-Fahal was killed Thursday Dec. 3, 2009, by a suicide bomber carrying an explosive belt in central Tikrit. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)AP - He compared al-Qaida in Iraq to wolves, urging that the terrorist group be crushed since he believed its members would never reject violence. But the wolves got to the Iraqi counterterrorism officer first.


Ex-UK defense chief: US declared Iraq win too soon (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 07:55 AM PST

AP - A former British military chief says the United States decided that it had won the war in Iraq too soon.

Iraqis defy bomb threat to attend movie nights (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 07:46 AM PST

Reuters - Small crowds of Iraqi movie-goers defied the threat of bomb attacks this week to watch films at a Baghdad outdoor cinema, an event unimaginable for years as violence swirled.

Rice to rags tale in Iraq's parched breadbasket (AFP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 11:38 PM PST

A makeshift bridge passes across a river in the village of Ghazali, near the holy city of Najaf, in central Iraq. The province was once the country's breadbasket but the food-producing region has seen production levels fall alongside water flow within the Euphrates River and now the famous waterway can only provide water for a quarter of the arable land.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - The face of Iraqi farmer Aid Shamkhi darkens as he looks at his parched, weed-strewn ground in the heart of what was once the country's breadbasket.


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