2009年12月31日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Judge dismisses charges against Blackwater defendants (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 05:29 PM PST

Members of the US private security company Blackwater are pictured aboard a Hughes 500 helicopter securing the way of a US convoy in Baghdad in 2006. A federal judge on Thursday dismissed criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - In a rebuke to government prosecutors, a federal judge dismissed criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007.

Judge throws out Blackwater manslaughter charges (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 04:54 PM PST

Reuters - A federal judge threw out all charges on Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007, saying the U.S. government had recklessly violated the defendants' constitutional rights.

Judge tosses Blackwater case in Baghdad shooting (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 04:41 PM PST

FILE - In a Monday, July 21, 2008 file photo, Blackwater Worldwide's headquarters is seen in Moyock, N.C. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. Urbina said the Justice Department overstepped its bounds and wrongly used evidence it was not allowed to see. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)AP - A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.

The 'coalition of the willing' becomes an army of one (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 02:10 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq — The British said cheerio back in July, around the same time the Romanians cleared out "Camp Dracula," their compound on a U.S. base in southern Iraq. Tonga and Kazakhstan left ages ago, and no one seems to remember if any Icelandic forces ever made it to Iraq.

Iraq civilian death toll down to 4,500 in '09: study (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 02:01 PM PST

Attorneys for five former Blackwater security guards are seen leaving the US district courthouse, in January last year, in Washington, DC. In a rebuke to government prosecutors, a federal judge has dismissed criminal charges against the five guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Hoffman)Reuters - The number of civilians who died in Iraq fell by half in 2009 to around 4,500, but improvements in the war-weary country's security have slowed and catastrophic attacks took a major toll this year, a new study found.

(AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 12:31 PM PST

AP - Judge dismisses all charges against Blackwater guards in deadly Baghdad shooting.

Iraq bomb plotters recruited in US-run prison: police (AFP/File)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 10:14 AM PST

AFP/File - Two men on death row for masterminding an Al-Qaeda truck bombing that killed 88 people on June 20 were recruited in a US-run prison camp, a senior Iraqi police commander said on Thursday.

Briton freed from Iraqi captivity to go home soon (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 09:43 AM PST

This photo issued by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office shows recently released British hostage Peter Moore, at the British Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday Dec. 31, 2009. A Briton released this week after more than two years as a hostage in Iraq is in good health and preparing to come home soon, a British spokesman said Thursday. Peter Moore was kidnapped in May 2007 outside the Finance Ministry in Baghdad along with his four bodyguards. In a rare positive outcome for a foreign hostage held in Iraq, Moore was handed over Wednesday to the British Embassy in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Foreign and Commonwealth Office)AP - A Briton released this week after more than two years as a hostage in Iraq is in good health and preparing to come home soon, a British spokesman said Thursday.

Britain, Iran downplay Tehran link to Iraq hostages (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 08:44 AM PST

Released British hostage Peter Moore is seen here at the British Embassy in Baghdad. Britain and Iran downplayed a report that the 2007 kidnapping of the British computer expert and his bodyguards in Iraq was led by Iran's Revolutionary Guard and that they were held there.(Foreign and Commonwealth Office)AFP - Britain and Iran downplayed Thursday a report that the 2007 kidnapping of a British computer expert and his bodyguards in Iraq was led by Iran's Revolutionary Guard and that they were held there.

UK plays down report Iran directed hostage-taking (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 03:27 AM PST

A man who identified himself as Peter Moore speaks in this file frame grab of a video released by Al Arabiya February 26, 2008. REUTERS/Al Arabiya via Reuters TV/FilesReuters - Britain played down a report on Thursday that Iran masterminded the kidnapping in Iraq of a British man held hostage for more than 2-1/2 years, saying there was no firm evidence of direct Iranian involvement.

Britain hails release of Iraq hostage (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 11:20 PM PST

This undated handout photo shows Briton Peter Moore, who was freed unharmed after a two-and-a-half year kidnap ordeal. The kidnapping of the British computer expert and his four bodyguards in Iraq in 2007 was masterminded by Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the group was held there for a time, media reported.(AFP/HO)AFP - Britain hailed the release of a computer expert in Iraq after an "unspeakable" 31-month ordeal, amid reports Thursday militants were handed over to secure his freedom and that Iran was behind the kidnapping.

Release of British hostage Peter Moore in Iraq garners praise (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 08:51 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - After 2-1/2 years in captivity, British hostage Peter Moore was released by his Iraqi captors on Wednesday. The Briton was one of four people snatched from in front of the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad in May 2007, and he is the only known survivor of the group.

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