2010年5月17日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq says it uncovered al-Qaida plot on World Cup (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 04:04 PM PDT

Iraqi's Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki meets with security ministers and high-ranking officers to discuss the security situation in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, at his office in Baghdad, May 16, 2010. REUTERS/Iraqi Government/HandoutAP - Iraqi security forces have detained an al-Qaida militant suspected of planning an attack targeting the World Cup in South Africa next month, an official said Monday.

Iraqi baseball team checks out America's pastime on U.S. visit (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 17 May 2010 03:10 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The players on Iraq's premier national baseball team saw a baseball stadium for the first time on a recent 10-day visit to the United States, courtesy of the State Department.

Iraqi court dismisses de-Baathification cases (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2010 02:02 PM PDT

Iyad Allawi, former Iraqi prime minister and head of the secular Iraqiya coalition, waves at a news conference in Baghdad May 10, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - An Iraqi appeals court on Monday rejected the disqualification of nine winning candidates from a March 7 election, removing another hurdle to the certification of the ballot results more than two months after the vote.

Court overturns ban on 9 Iraqi candidates (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 11:30 AM PDT

Iraqi electoral staff recount ballots from last month's general election at Baghdad's Rashid hotel on May 4. A recount of votes in Baghdad has yielded no evidence of fraud, Iraq's election commission said, more than two months after March elections from which no new government has yet emerged.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AP - An Iraqi court overturned on Monday a ban on nine newly elected parliament members who had been barred by a committee vetting candidates for ties to Saddam Hussein's regime, clearing a major hurdle to forming the new government.

Anti-Qaeda Sunni imams slaughtered in Iraq: military (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 11:27 AM PDT

An Iraqi Sunni fighter allied with US forces against al-Qaeda in Iraq rides in a Stryker armored personnel carrier alongside US soldiers during Operation Grim Ghost in Diyala in 2008. Two Sunni Arab imams were brutally killed on Monday in Iraq, including one who was decapitated and had his head planted on a power pole, in attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda, military officials said.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - Two Sunni Arab imams were brutally killed on Monday in Iraq, including one who was decapitated and had his head planted on a power pole, in attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda, military officials said.

Qaeda 'planned World Cup attack from Iraq' (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 08:31 AM PDT

Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassem Atta holds up an image of arrested Al-Qaeda suspect Abdullah Azzam Saleh Misfar al-Qahtani during a press conference in the Iraqi capital. Qahtani had been planning an attack against the football World Cup which kicks off in South Africa next month, he said.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A senior Al-Qaeda militant had been planning an attack against the football World Cup which kicks off in South Africa next month, an Iraqi security spokesman said on Monday.

Nine 'Baath candidates' can take Iraq seats (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 08:19 AM PDT

Workers with the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) prepare to transport ballot boxes in Baghdad on May 14. Nine successful candidates from Iraq's March election alleged to have links to Saddam Hussein's Baath party can take their seats in parliament, the head of the body charged with barring them has said .(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Nine successful candidates from Iraq's March polls charged with links to Saddam Hussein's Baath party can take their seats in parliament, the head of the body responsible for barring them said Monday.

Iraq vows to quickly eliminate new Qaeda leaders (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 06:49 AM PDT

A handout picture released by the Iraqi Prime Minister's Office on April 19 shows Nuri al-Maliki at a press conference in Baghdad holding up photos of Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Omar al-Baghdadi before and after his death. Iraq's security forces have vowed to quickly eliminate Al-Qaeda's new leadership, a day after the terror network named replacements for two senior commanders killed last month.(AFP/Iraqi PM Office/File)AFP - Iraq's security forces on Monday vowed to quickly eliminate Al-Qaeda's new leadership, a day after the terror network named replacements for two senior commanders who were killed last month.

Iraq signs oil field deal with Chinese, Turkish firms (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2010 05:17 AM PDT

Iraqi labourers work at the Halfaya oil field in Iraq's southern Maysan province in 2009. Iraq has signed a deal with Chinese energy giant CNOOC and Turkey's TPAO to develop a major southern oilfield complex, its 11th deal with foreign energy firms as Baghdad aims to boost crude output.(AFP/File/Karim Jamil)AFP - Iraq signed a deal with Chinese energy giant CNOOC and Turkey's TPAO on Monday to develop a major southern oilfield complex, its 11th deal with foreign energy firms as Baghdad aims to boost crude output.

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