2010年10月29日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


First woman House speaker may be toppled (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:01 PM PDT

Reuters - Nancy Pelosi became the first woman to lead the U.S. House of Representatives by taking on the most powerful man on Earth -- then-President George W. Bush and his unpopular Iraq war.

Suicide bomber kills 22 in attack on Iraqi cafe (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:44 PM PDT

Reuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up in an Iraqi cafe usually packed with Shi'ite Kurds in a town northeast of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 60, officials said.

Suicide bomber kills 21 north of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 12, 2010 file photo, a man wears tape over his mouth to protest the killing of 23-year-old journalist Sardasht Othman in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq.  The man holds a sign that reads, in Kurdish, 'Where is the law of writing?' A human rights group on Friday Oct 29 2010 denounced a regional government's investigation of the slain Kurdish journalist in Iraq and demanded that officials open a new, independent inquiry.(AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed, File)AP - A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt killed at least 21 people, mostly Shiites, on Friday in a town north of Baghdad, shattering what had been weeks of relative calm, the town's mayor said.


(AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:41 PM PDT

AP - Yemen expresses astonishment at reports linking it to suspicious packages found on planes.

Iraq suicide bombing kills at least 25, wounds 70: police (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 12:15 PM PDT

Iraqi policemen inspect the crater left by a suicide car bombing in the town of Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad in 2004. Twenty-five people were killed and 70 wounded in a suicide bombing Friday at a coffee house in the town of Balad Ruz in central Iraq's Diyala province, a police official said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - At least 25 people were killed and 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a coffee house in the town of Balad Ruz in central Iraq's restive Diyala province on Friday, a police official said.


Trial for Haditha Marine squad leader is delayed (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:55 AM PDT

AP - An attorney for a Marine whose squad killed 24 Iraqis nearly five years ago says his client's court-martial is being delayed to Jan. 24.

Saddam's former chief of staff dies of cancer (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:52 AM PDT

General Ibrahim Ahmed Abdul Sattar, Iraq's armed forces chief of staff under Saddam Hussein at the time of the 2003 invasion, has died of cancer in a Baghdad hospital after seven years behind bars, the justice ministry said on Friday.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Iraq's armed forces chief of staff under Saddam Hussein at the time of the 2003 invasion has died of cancer in a Baghdad hospital after seven years behind bars, the justice ministry said on Friday.


Iraq's Tareq Aziz on hunger strike: son (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:47 AM PDT

Ailing former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz -- sentenced to death for murder and crimes against humanity -- pictured here in 2006, has gone on hunger strike, his son said on Friday.(AFP/POOL/File/Marco Di Lauro)AFP - Ailing former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz, sentenced to death for murder and crimes against humanity, has gone on hunger strike, his son said on Friday.


First Baghdad flight for European airline in 20 yrs (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:34 AM PDT

An Airbus operated by France's Aigle Azur is on Saturday to make the first scheduled flight by a European airline to Baghdad in 20 years amid hopes of boosting historically close Franco-Iraqi business links.(AFP/File/Eric Piermont)AFP - An Airbus operated by France's Aigle Azur is on Saturday to make the first scheduled flight by a European airline to Baghdad in 20 years amid hopes of boosting historically close Franco-Iraqi business links.


Iraq frees five linked to Qaeda in Kirkuk kidnap swap (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:23 AM PDT

Major General Jamal Taher Baker, Iraqi police chief in the province of Kirkuk, announces on Thursday the arrest arrest of several people linked to the Ansar al-Sunna group. Iraqi police have released five jailed women linked to Al-Qaeda, including two wives of imprisoned members of Ansar al-Sunna, in exchange for two kidnapped Kurdish sisters.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Iraqi police released five jailed women linked to Al-Qaeda in exchange for two kidnapped Kurdish sisters to curb violence in the ethnically divided city of Kirkuk, an anti-terrorism official told AFP on Friday.


The Story of Saddam's Gun Collection (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:26 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - Among the Iraqi dictator’s most prized gifts were chrome plated AK-47s. Reporter C.J. Chivers tells the story of how this humble rifle became fashionable among revolutionaries—and dispels many of the myths about them. His new book, The Gun, tells their strange history and why they’re a threat to world stability.

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