2010年1月18日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq mulls lodging Blackwater complaint for citizens (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 11:47 AM PST

A US private security company Blackwater helicopter flies over Baghdad in 2003. Baghdad said Monday it is considering lodging a complaint against a security company in the US after a judge dismissed charges the firm's guards killed Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Baghdad said Monday it is considering lodging a complaint against a security company in the US after a judge dismissed charges the firm's guards killed Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack.

Soldier guilty of cruelty and maltreatment in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 10:38 AM PST

AP - A military panel in Kuwait convicted a U.S. soldier of being cruel and mistreating fellow soldiers, a case undertaken after an Army private from Ohio committed suicide in Iraq.

Ex-UK Premier Blair to testify on Iraq war Jan. 29 (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 08:48 AM PST

AP - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will give his highly anticipated testimony to an inquiry into the Iraq war next week, the panel said Monday.

Gunmen kill 5 people at Baghdad aid office (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 08:26 AM PST

A US private security company Blackwater helicopter flies over Baghdad in 2003. Baghdad said Monday it is considering lodging a complaint against a security company in the US after a judge dismissed charges the firm's guards killed Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AP - Officials said gunmen broke into the office of an Iraqi humanitarian organization in Baghdad on Monday and killed five employees.

Iraq instructs lawyers to take on Blackwater cases (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 08:20 AM PST

Reuters - Iraq has asked its lawyers in the United States to take on U.S. security firm Blackwater on behalf of victims shot by the company's security guards at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007, officials said on Monday.

Gunmen kill five in Iraqi NGO office (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 07:15 AM PST

Reuters - Gunmen burst into a Baghdad office of a nongovernmental organization on Monday and shot dead the five people inside, Iraqi police said.

Iran and Iraq hold talks on border dispute (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:36 AM PST

Reuters - Iranian and Iraqi commanders expressed hope after a meeting on Monday the two neighbors would resolve "misunderstandings" over their joint border, Iranian media reported.

Iraqis authorize government to sue Blackwater (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:18 AM PST

A US private security company Blackwater helicopter flies over Baghdad in 2003. Baghdad said Monday it is considering lodging a complaint against a security company in the US after a judge dismissed charges the firm's guards killed Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AP - Iraq's government has started collecting signatures for a class-action lawsuit from victims who were wounded or lost family in incidents involving the U.S. private security firm formerly known as Blackwater.

Iraqi province gives Saddam loyalists 24 hours to leave (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 06:00 AM PST

Iraqi police commandos patrol in the town of Zarqa, north of Najaf in 2007. Local government officials warned Saddam Hussein loyalists to move out of the Shiite province of Najaf in central Iraq within 24 hours or face an AFP - Local government officials warned Saddam Hussein loyalists on Monday to move out of the Shiite province of Najaf in central Iraq within 24 hours or face an "iron fist."

Four killed in Baghdad gun and bomb attack (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:13 AM PST

Iraqi policemen check a motorist's identification at a checkpoint in central Baghdad, 2009. Gunmen stormed a busy building in a Sunni district of Baghdad on Monday and killed at least four people, including a woman.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Gunmen stormed a busy building in a Sunni district of Baghdad on Monday and killed at least four people, including a woman, Iraqi interior and defence officials said.

Iraq's Aziz in 'stable condition' after stroke (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:25 AM PST

Iraq's jailed ex-deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, seen here in 2006, hospitalised after suffering a stroke, is in AFP - Iraq's jailed ex-deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, hospitalised after suffering a stroke, is in "stable condition," his Amman-based lawyer said on Monday, as his family appealed for more information.

Marines exit Iraq in first wave of US forces out (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 09:31 PM PST

This Dec. 27, 2009 photo shows a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP, used by the Marines in Iraq, after being checked and designated a Category 1 piece of equipment, meaning it will be sent to U.S. forces in Afghanistan, from al-Asad Air Base, west of Baghdad. The armored truck is one of en estimated 1,000 MRAPs that are being shipped out of the al-Asad base in western Anbar province as the Marines prepare to leave Iraq in January. Among the first troops to invade in March 2003, the Marines will be the first major wave of American forces to go as the United States begins to withdraw its military from Iraq by the end of 2011. At their peak in October 2008, an estimated 25,000 Marines were in Iraq, mostly stationed in the country's western Anbar province. Only about 4,000 remain. They, too, will be gone shortly after the Marines officially hand off their responsibilities to the Army on Jan. 23. (AP Photo/Lara Jakes)AP - The base loudspeaker no longer wakes them up with calls for blood donors; armored trucks sit idle in neat rows. The U.S. Marines who stood at some of the bloodiest turning points of the Iraq war are packing up and leaving.

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