2010年1月8日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US to review court decision on Blackwater killings (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 03:10 PM PST

Front of the US State Department in Washington, DC. The US government said Friday it will review the decision by a US court to drop charges against American private security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in 2007.(AFP/File/Mike Theiler)AFP - The US government said Friday it will review the decision by a US court to drop charges against American private security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in 2007.

Iraq Sunni leader will appeal March election ban (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 01:02 PM PST

Salah al-Mutlak, left, is flanked by supporters at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. An Iraqi parliamentary committee has moved to bar the prominent Sunni politician from running in the upcoming elections due to his alleged connections with the previous regime, the candidate said Friday, a decision likely to stoke already tense sectarian tensions in the country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Hopes of persuading Iraq's minority Sunnis to take part in the March election were dealt a blow Friday after a prominent Sunni politician said he'd been barred from the polls because of alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's regime.

Iraq bars 14 politicians, parties from election (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 11:44 AM PST

Iraqi politician Saleh al-Mutlak, a secular Sunni Muslim who heads the National Dialogue Front, gives a press conference at his party headquarters in Baghdad. Fourteen Iraqi politicians and parties linked to Saddam Hussein's Baath party have been barred from taking part in March elections, in a blow for efforts towards national reconciliation.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Fourteen Iraqi politicians and parties linked to Saddam Hussein's Baath party have been barred from taking part in March elections, in a blow for efforts towards national reconciliation.

Iraqi archaeologists find ancient Sumerian settlement (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 07:08 AM PST

A hand out image of an ancient Sumerian table. Iraqi archaeologists say they have discovered a 2,000-year-old Sumerian settlement in southern Iraq, yielding a bounty of historical artefacts.(AFP/IRAQI MINISTRY/Ho)AFP - Iraqi archaeologists said on Friday they have discovered a 2,000-year-old Sumerian settlement in southern Iraq, yielding a bounty of historical artefacts.

US congressman discusses Iraqi refugees in Lebanon (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 06:37 AM PST

This picture from the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra shows Lebanese President Michel Sleiman (R) meeting with US congressman Alcee Hastings at the Baabda presidential palace, east of Beirut. Hastings met with top Lebanese officials for talks on a range of issues, including how to deal with the influx of Iraqi refugees.(AFP/DALATI & NOHRA)AFP - A visiting US congressman met with top Lebanese officials on Friday for talks on a range of issues, including how to deal with the influx of Iraqi refugees.

CIA bomber's wife says war must go on against US (AP)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 04:24 AM PST

This undated image provided Friday, Jan. 8, 2009 by Jordan's Al-Ghad newspaper, purports to show Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the suspected Jordanian double agent who killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Al-Ghad, ho)AP - The Turkish wife of a Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan says her husband was outraged over the treatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S.-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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