2010年1月14日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq's electoral commission bars 500 candidates (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:57 PM PST

Iraq's former prime minister Ayad Allawi speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. The former prime minister of Iraq says the recent move to bar certain political parties from the March vote amounts to intimidation. Allawi, who served as interim prime minister from mid-2004 to early 2005, said in an interview with The Associated Press that the De-Baathification process designed to root out supporters of Saddam Hussein's regime has become politicized. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraq's electoral commission on Thursday barred 500 candidates from running in March's parliamentary election, including a prominent Sunni lawmaker, in a decision that is sure to deepen Iraq's sectarian divides.


Iraq sentences 11 to death for government bombings (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 11:49 AM PST

Iraqi police and civilians respond moments after a bombing in Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.  Three explosions, including one caused by a car bomb, rocked the southern city of Najaf at about 5:45 p.m. near a commercial area, police said. An official in the city's health department said at least one person was killed and 50 were wounded.(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - An Iraqi court Thursday sentenced 11 people to death by hanging after convicting them of carrying out the August bombings of two government ministries that killed more than 100 people in the heart of Baghdad.


Bombs kill up to 15 in Shiite holy city in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 10:28 AM PST

An Iraqi police man walks past a damaged vehicle following one of three bombing in the center of the Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf 150kms (95kms) south of Baghdad. As many as 15 people were killed and dozens more were wounded on Thursday when three bombs exploded simultaneously in the Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf, officials said.(AFP/Qassem Zein)AFP - As many as 15 people were killed and dozens more were wounded on Thursday when three bombs exploded simultaneously in the Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf, officials said.


Deadly bombings strike Iraqi holy city of Najaf (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 10:06 AM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - NAJAF, Iraq — Three bombs exploded in quick succession after sunset Thursday in the southern holy city of Najaf, killing up to 25 people and wounding scores of others, Iraqi Interior Ministry officials said.

Iraq election officials bar nearly 500 candidates from poll (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 09:57 AM PST

An Iraqi policeman reads an electoral committee information billboard urging people to update their voting record in Baghdad, in 2009. Iraq's election organisers on Thursday barred nearly 500 politicians and parties from contesting the country's upcoming national poll, including many linked to Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraq's election organisers on Thursday barred nearly 500 politicians and parties from contesting the country's upcoming national poll, including many linked to Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party.


Iraq sentences 11 for August bombing in Baghdad (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 09:17 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - An Iraqi court Thursday sentenced 11 people to death by hanging after convicting them of carrying out the August bombings of two government ministries that killed more than 100 people in the heart of Baghdad.

Explosions hit Iraq holy city of Najaf, one dead (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 08:15 AM PST

Reuters - A series of explosions in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf killed at least one person and wounded 22 on Thursday, an Iraqi hospital official said.

Iraq sentences 11 men to death over Baghdad bombings (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:15 AM PST

A wounded man leaves the scene of a massive explosion outside the foreign ministry in central Baghdad on August 19, 2009. An Iraqi court has sentenced to death 11 men, including Al-Qaeda militants, over devastating truck bombs in Baghdad that killed more than 100 people in August and dealt a harsh blow to the government.(AFP/File/Khalil al-Murshidi)AFP - An Iraqi court Thursday sentenced to death 11 men, including Al-Qaeda militants, over devastating truck bombs in Baghdad that killed more than 100 people in August and dealt a harsh blow to the government.


Eleven Iraqis sentenced to death for Baghdad bombings (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2009 file photo, fire fighters respond to a bombing at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, left, in Baghdad, Iraq. A Baghdad court, Thursday Jan. 14, 2010, has sentenced eleven Iraqis to death for their roles in a series of deadly attacks that rocked the country's capital last August. Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar says a Baghdad criminal court on Thursday found the defendants guilty of financing, planning and participating in the August 19 bombings that devastated the foreign and finance ministries. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)Reuters - A court sentenced 11 Iraqis on Thursday to death by hanging for planning and carrying out massive truck bombings in Baghdad last August that killed 95 people and wounded more than 1,000.


Dutch PM accepts some of Iraq report criticism (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:39 PM PST

Reuters - The Dutch government accepted with hindsight that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 required a more adequate legal mandate, the prime minister wrote in a letter to parliament on Wednesday.
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