2010年4月13日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Nuclear Security Summit: Obama Invokes Mushroom Clouds (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:00 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) speaks during the first plenary session as Vice President Joe Biden (C) and Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner listen at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington April 13, 2010.     REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY)Time.com - Bush used the image to justify invading Iraq; Obama hopes it will focus attention on tightening security around nuclear materials


Gates assails Internet group over attack video (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:00 PM PDT

This image captured from a classified U.S. military video footage shows a wounded Iraqi person being loaded onto a van during a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff on July 12, 2007, and released to Reuters on April 5, 2010 by WikiLeaks, a group that promotes leaking to fight government and corporate corruption. REUTERS/WikiLeaks/HandoutReuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized the Internet group Wikileaks on Tuesday over its release of a video showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,390 (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:54 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, April 13, 2010, at least 4,390 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Gates criticizes leak of Iraq killings (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates speaks to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday criticized the anonymous online posting of a video showing two journalists in Iraq getting gunned down by U.S. troops in 2007 as irresponsible and presenting a "soda straw" view of war.


Liquor store bombed in Baghdad, killing 3 (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:26 AM PDT

Policemen secure the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad April 13, 2010. A roadside bomb exploded near a shop selling alcohol in the Zayouna district in eastern Baghdad, killing three people and wounding seven, police said.   REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT MILITARY)AP - Militants planted a bomb in an eastern Baghdad liquor store on Tuesday, killing the Christian owner and two others, while a TV reporter had his legs blown off by a bomb attached to his car in scattered violence across the city.


Sgt. convicted in case that grew from Army suicide (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:59 AM PDT

AP - A U.S. soldier has been reprimanded and demoted in a case that developed out of an Army private's suicide.

Iraq still owes Kuwait $24 bln in war damages: MP (AFP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:31 AM PDT

A flare burns at the North Rumaila oil field in Iraq. Iraq still owes about 24 billion dollars in war reparations for the 1990 occupation of oil-rich Kuwait, a Kuwaiti lawmaker was quoted as saying in Kuwait newspaper.(AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)AFP - Iraq still owes about 24 billion dollars in war reparations for the 1990 occupation of oil-rich Kuwait, a Kuwaiti lawmaker was quoted as saying on Tuesday.


Military sources: New US commander for Iraq (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:12 AM PDT

AP - The senior U.S. general in Iraq since 2008, Gen. Ray Odierno, will be succeeded by a leading Pentagon general at the end of the summer, military officials said Monday.
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