2010年1月11日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


2 Navy SEALs' detainee abuse trials moved to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:34 PM PST

AP - Two Navy SEALs accused in the mistreatment of an Iraqi detainee should be tried at the U.S. base in Iraq where the alleged victim is being held, a military judge ruled Monday.

Itching for battle, U.S. troops in Iraq stage fight nights (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:14 PM PST

In this file photo, American troops cheer as fellow soldiers box during 'Fight Night' at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, June 18, 2004. Soldiers volunteer to fight in the weekly Friday evening event, as comrades watch, many drinking ice cold non-alcoholic beer. (AP Photo/John Moore)McClatchy Newspapers - COB ADDER, Iraq — Hard rock thumped through the speakers and nonalcoholic beer flowed as more than 1,000 amped-up American soldiers crowded around a makeshift boxing ring one evening earlier this month at a U.S. base in southern Iraq.


Iraq: Election worker killed in March vote run-up (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 10:21 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers secure the site of a bomb attack in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. A bomb attached to a car targeted a lawmaker passing convoy, injured five people, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - An election worker has been killed and another one kidnapped over the last two weeks, a senior Iraqi election official said Monday, in a worrying sign of the dangers facing election workers as the country's March 7 parliamentary election draws closer.


Blair's top spin doctor to be quizzed on Iraq role (AP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 08:42 AM PST

FILE - This is a Monday July 9, 2007 file photo of Alastair Campbell as he arrives at offices of ITV in London, to give television interviews,  Alastair Campbell, was British Prime Minister Tony Blair's powerful chief spin doctor between 1997 and 2003.  Campbell  testifies Tuesday Jan 12, 2010 before the Iraq Inquiry. The communications director for former Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to face harsh questioning about his role in preparing the controversial dossier, which claimed in 2002 that Iraq's Saddam Hussein could have nuclear weapons within a year and could launch chemical weapons within 45 minutes. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)AP - Did he "sex up" the infamous intelligence dossier that made Britain's case for war with Iraq? That is the key question for spin doctor supreme Alastair Campbell when he testifies Tuesday before the Iraq Inquiry.


Iran MPs 'slam Saudi remarks on Iraqi Shiite cleric' (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 06:18 AM PST

Holding an amber set of prayer beads, a Shiite Muslim man takes part in Friday prayers. Iran's conservative-dominated parliament has slammed a Saudi prayer leader, saying he insulted Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, newspapers reported.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Iran's conservative-dominated parliament has slammed a Saudi Friday prayer leader, saying he insulted Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, newspapers reported on Monday.


Probe into allegations British troops 'executed' Iraqi (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 08:03 PM PST

File photo of British soldiers in Basra, southern Iraq in 2007. The Ministry of Defence said that military investigators will examine allegations about the death of a 62-year-old Iraqi woman who was caught up in crossfire during a raid on her home.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - British military investigators will examine allegations about the death of a 62-year-old Iraqi woman who was caught up in crossfire during a raid on her home, the Ministry of Defence said Monday.


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