2010年1月4日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq weighing options after Blackwater guards cleared (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 12:40 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. Baghdad is weighing how to best react after a US court dropped charges against American guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in 2007, a government spokesman said Monday.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - Baghdad is weighing how to best react after a US court dropped charges against American guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in 2007, a government spokesman said Monday.

Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 11:11 AM PST

AP - October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

Iraq will file lawsuits against Blackwater (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 07:12 AM PST

A man who was wounded in a shooting attack by the security guards of Blackwater firm, is helped by his relatives in a hospital in Baghdad, September 20, 2007. REUTERS/Ceerwan AzizReuters - Iraq said on Monday it would launch lawsuits in U.S. and Iraqi courts against a U.S. security firm accused in the 2007 killing of civilians in Baghdad, rejecting a U.S. judge's decision to throw out charges.

Iraqi PM vows justice in Blackwater shooting case (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:45 AM PST

A private security company's armored vehicle rolls through al-Nisoor square,Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. A U.S. federal judge has dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused in the 2007 killing of unarmed Iraqi civilians, in a case that has inflamed anti-American sentiment in Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The Iraqi prime minister vowed Monday to seek punishment for the Blackwater guards accused of killing 17 people at a busy Baghdad intersection after U.S. courts dropped the case in a decision that outraged many Iraqis.

Iraq names new north oil chief (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:31 AM PST

Former head of North Oil Company (NOC) Manaa al-Obaydi, 2009. Iraq named a new chief for the state-run North Oil Company, angering employees and sparking concerns of sectarian tensions in the firm's ethnically-mixed headquarters town of Kirkuk.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Iraq on Monday named a new chief for the state-run North Oil Company, angering employees and sparking concerns of sectarian tensions in the firm's ethnically-mixed headquarters town of Kirkuk.

Three policemen killed in north Iraq blasts (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 02:46 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in Kirkuk, 2006. Three policemen were killed and eight people were wounded by two explosions in Iraq's northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Three policemen were killed and eight people were wounded on Monday by two explosions in Iraq's northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, police said.

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