2010年5月29日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraqi police recover 1.3 million dollars from bank heist (AFP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 12:41 PM PDT

Blast walls protect the main entrance to the Al-Rafidain bank in central Baghdad in 2009. Police investigating a bank robbery at a branch of Rafidain bank near Najaf in southern Iraq have recovered 1.3 million dollars of the 5.5 million stolen and made one arrest, a local official said on Saturday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Police investigating a bank robbery near Najaf in southern Iraq have recovered 1.3 million dollars of the 5.5 million stolen and made one arrest, a local official said on Saturday.


Honoring the dead: US saves war memorials in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 09:04 AM PDT

AP - In words etched in stone, painted on concrete barriers, scribbled on hospital walls with magic markers, American troops in Iraq have followed a tradition as old as war itself: honoring their dead.

Iraq's Maliki stands firm on post of PM (Reuters)

Posted: 29 May 2010 08:15 AM PDT

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks to the media after a meeting with Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, about 160km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, May 29, 2010. Maliki said on Saturday his party would not compromise on its choice of government leader, resisting pressure from potential coalition partners for him to step aside. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS HEADSHOT)Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday his party would not compromise on its choice of government leader, resisting pressure from potential coalition partners for him to step aside.


Iraq's al-Maliki says he's only party PM nominee (AP)

Posted: 29 May 2010 06:45 AM PDT

Blast walls protect the main entrance to the Al-Rafidain bank in central Baghdad in 2009. Police investigating a bank robbery at a branch of Rafidain bank near Najaf in southern Iraq have recovered 1.3 million dollars of the 5.5 million stolen and made one arrest, a local official said on Saturday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - Iraq's prime minister said Saturday he is the only nominee from his political party to run the nation's next government, rejecting suggestions of a consensus candidate to satisfy those concerned about his leadership.


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