2010年2月10日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq orders former Blackwater security guards out (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:58 PM PST

FILE - In this April 4, 2004 file photo, plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight as Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr attempt to advance on a facility being defended by U.S. and Spanish soldiers in the Iraqi city of Najaf. Iraq has ordered about 250 former and current employees of Blackwater Worldwide to leave the country within seven days or face having their visas pulled. The order comes in the wake of a U.S. judge dismissing criminal charges against five Blackwater guards who were accused in the September 2007 shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Gervasio Sanchez, File)AP - Iraq has ordered hundreds of private security guards linked to Blackwater Worldwide to leave the country within seven days or face possible arrest on visa violations, the interior minister said Wednesday.


Reuters photographer says reborn after freed by U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 01:10 PM PST

An undated file photo shows Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed, a freelance photographer working for Reuters news agency in Baghdad. REUTERS/Staff/FilesReuters - The U.S. military freed a Reuters photographer in Iraq on Wednesday, almost a year and a half after snatching him from his home in the middle of the night and placing him in military detention without charge.


US military in Iraq frees Reuters journalist (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 08:13 AM PST

An undated file photo shows Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed. The US military in Iraq freed the Iraqi freelance journalist working for the Thomson Reuters media group after holding him for 17 months without charge, the company said.(AFP/File)AFP - The US military in Iraq freed an Iraqi freelance journalist working for the Thomson Reuters media group on Wednesday after holding him for 17 months without charge, the company said.


Reuters: US military releases Iraqi photographer (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 07:59 AM PST

In this photo released by Reuters news agency Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, the family of Ibrahim Jassam, Reuters freelance TV cameraman and photographer welcome him after his release at his home south of Baghdad, Iraq. Jassam  has been released by the U.S. military after 17 months in detention in Iraq, the news agency reported Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010. Jassam was detained in September 2008 during a raid by Iraqi and U.S. forces on his home in the town of Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of the capital, the London-based news agency reported. (AP Photo/Thaier al-Sudani, Reuters, HO)AP - An Iraqi freelance photographer who worked for Reuters has been released by the U.S. military after 17 months in detention in Iraq, the news agency reported Wednesday.


Iraq oil pipeline sabotaged (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:49 AM PST

A trail of smoke rises from the flame of the Al-Dora oil refinery complex in Baghdad in 2008. A pipeline carrying crude oil to a refinery in Baghdad has been sabotaged only days after going back online following years of being the target of attack, the oil minister said(AFP/File/ALI YUSSEF)AFP - A pipeline carrying crude oil to a refinery in Baghdad has been sabotaged only days after going back online following years of being the target of attack, the oil minister said on Wednesday.


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