2010年1月13日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Dutch PM backs away from criticizing Iraq report (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:37 PM PST

AP - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende conceded Wednesday, "with the knowledge of now," that a stronger legal mandate was needed for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 — and his decision to support it.

More candidates may be banned from Iraqi elections (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 02:09 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials met late into the night Wednesday to determine how many candidates should be barred from running in the March elections after a panel determined that they had ties to Saddam Hussein's former Baath Party.

Iraqi fights graft, crime in Interior Ministry (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 10:24 AM PST

Reuters - Outside the office of Aqeel al-Turaihi, inspector general at what is seen as a corrupt country's most corrupt government agency, hangs a 'Board of Honour' showing photos of slain colleagues. Since he began probing theft, human rights abuses and police infiltration by militias in Iraq's Interior Ministry in 2006, more than 40 members of Turaihi's team have been assassinated.

British PM insists 'nothing to hide' on Iraq war (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 06:55 AM PST

Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves 10 Downing Street in central London. Brown insisted he had AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted he had "nothing to hide" over the 2003 Iraq war, after a public inquiry heard of his key role in planning it.


Suicide truck bomber kills 7 people west of Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:32 AM PST

An Iraqi police vehicle blocks the street as an officer surveys the debris following bombings west of Baghdad, 2009. A suicide truck bomber on Wednesday killed seven people, five of them Iraqi policemen, and wounded six others including a young child west of Baghdad, security officials said.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - A suicide truck bomber on Wednesday killed seven people, five of them Iraqi policemen, and wounded six others including a young child west of Baghdad, security officials said.


Suicide bomber kills 7 in Iraq's Anbar province (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:20 PM PST

Iraqi policemen patrol the site of a bomb attack in Hit, about 130 km (80 miles) west of Baghdad, January 7, 2010. Three bombs exploded in the residential area near Ramadi in Iraq's western Anbar province on Thursday, killing seven people including relatives of an Iraqi Army anti-terrorist special forces commander, police said. The bombs were planted overnight at the home of the officer, Waleed al-Hiti, and adjacent homes, police said.    REUTERS/Ali al-Mashhdani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)Reuters - A suicide bomber blew up a truck near a police station in Iraq's western Anbar province on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding six, police said.


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