2010年5月3日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Army captain who stole $690,000 gets 30 months (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 03:36 PM PDT

AP - An Oregon man who stole nearly $700,000 from the U.S. government while serving as an Army captain in Iraq was sentenced to 30 months in prison Monday.

Iraqi troops arrest head of Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Islam: US (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 01:56 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers stop vehicles at a checkpoint in Baghdad in April 2010. Iraqi troops on Monday arrested the head of the Ansar al-Islam insurgent group in Baghdad, US forces said in a statement.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraqi troops on Monday arrested the head of the Ansar al-Islam insurgent group in Baghdad, US forces said in a statement.


Christians protest after north Iraq bomb attack (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 12:48 PM PDT

Thousands of Christians protest in the northern Iraqi town of Hamdaniyah to condemn a bomb attack on a bus carrying students and workers which left one person dead and 80 wounded.(AFP/Mujahed Mohammed)AFP - Thousands of Christians protested in northern Iraq on Monday to condemn a bomb attack on a bus carrying students and workers which left one person dead and 80 wounded.


Qaeda claims attacks on Iraq TV executive, anti-terror chief (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Iraqi policemen gather around the vehicle of General Arkan Ali Mohammed, a senior officer from a counter-terrorism unit, who was killed in a bomb attack in Nisur Square in western Baghdad on April 14, 2010. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for attacks last month which killed an Iraqi anti-terror chief and severely wounded a television executive, posts on a jihadi website showed Monday.(AFP/File/Khalil al-Murshidi)AFP - Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for attacks last month which killed an Iraqi anti-terror chief and severely wounded a television executive, posts on a jihadi website showed Monday.


Iraqi politicians bicker over recount (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 10:58 AM PDT

An electoral worker looks inside a ballot box as votes in the March 7 national election are re-counted in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 3, 2010. Iraqi officials have started recounting ballots for Baghdad province as demanded by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who narrowly lost a March 7 parliamentary election. Election officials say the manual recount could take between two and three weeks. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - The Iraqi prime minister's coalition cried foul just one hour into a partial vote recount that began Monday and demanded the process be halted, the latest political tussle delaying the formation of an Iraqi government in the aftermath of the close election.


Iraq starts vote recount, may take almost 2 weeks (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2010 10:57 AM PDT

Iraqi electoral employees recount ballots cast during the recent parliamentary election at the Al-Rasheed hotel in Baghdad. An election recount that could alter who becomes Iraq's prime minister has begun in Baghdad amid allegations of ballot-stuffing, the latest in a series of threats to the vote's credibility.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)Reuters - Iraq began a manual recount on Monday of 2.5 million votes cast in a parliamentary election held nearly two months ago, a tally that stalled talks to form a new government amid rising fears of renewed sectarian violence.


Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 10:30 AM PDT

AP - October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

Election recount under way in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2010 08:00 AM PDT

Iraqi electoral employees recount ballots cast during the recent parliamentary election at the Al-Rasheed hotel in Baghdad. An election recount that could alter who becomes Iraq's prime minister has begun in Baghdad amid allegations of ballot-stuffing, the latest in a series of threats to the vote's credibility.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - An election recount that could alter who becomes Iraq's prime minister began in Baghdad on Monday amid allegations of ballot-stuffing, the latest in a series of threats to the vote's credibility.


Iraq election: Baghdad recount begins with a hitch (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 May 2010 07:09 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s coalition Monday tried to throw another wrench into the slow-moving Iraq election process by calling for an audit in addition to a manual recount of votes from the March 7 parliamentary elections.
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