2010年6月6日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Bombs kill 6 in Iraqi capital, including policemen (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 02:03 PM PDT

A worker sweeps debris as an Iraqi police officer stands guard at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 6, 2010. The car bomb exploded outside a Baghdad police station Sunday in the deadliest of a pair of attacks that killed several people in the Iraqi capital, security and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A car bomb exploded outside a Baghdad police station Sunday in the deadliest of a pair of attacks that killed six people in the Iraqi capital, security and hospital officials said.


Top US officer: al-Qaida in Iraq "devastated" (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 12:52 PM PDT

Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses a room of soldiers during a visit Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at the Soldier's Support Center Memorial Hall on Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Ashley Cross) MANDATORY CREDITAP - A string of setbacks for al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq has left the insurgent group "devastated" and struggling to cope with a double whammy of a leadership vacuum and a money squeeze, the top U.S. military officer said Sunday.


NJ men accused of trying to join Somali terrorists (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:35 PM PDT

People are seen in the new JetBlue Airways Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport during a terminal test in New York August 23, 2008. REUTERS/Joshua LottAP - They were recorded talking jihad against their fellow Americans. But they hadn't talked the jihadists into accepting them.


Suicide bomber kills four police in Iraqi capital (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 10:25 AM PDT

A policeman stands guard near a vehicle damaged in a bomb attack outside a police station in Baghdad's Amil district June 6, 2010. REUTERS/Ahmed MalikReuters - A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a crowd of officers outside a police station in Baghdad on Sunday, killing four and wounding 12, a source in Iraq's Interior Ministry said.


Iraqi anti-Qaeda militias stripped of gun permits (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 08:49 AM PDT

Sunni Muslim Sahwa (Awakening) militiamen man a checkpoint in the southern Baghdad district of Dora, August 2009. Anti-Qaeda militiamen in the central Iraqi province of Diyala have been stripped of the right to carry weapons, an official said on Sunday, sparking a wave of anger and warnings of unrest.(AFP/File/Aubrey Belford)AFP - Anti-Qaeda militiamen in the central Iraqi province of Diyala have been stripped of the right to carry weapons, an official said on Sunday, sparking a wave of anger and warnings of unrest.


Five killed, including 4 police, in Baghdad attacks (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 05:40 AM PDT

A worker and policeman stand at the scene of a suicide bomb attack outside a police station in Baghdad's Al-Amil district, south of the capital, on June 6. A spate of bomb attacks in and around Baghdad Sunday morning killed five people, including four policemen, and wounded 24 others, security officials said.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A spate of bomb attacks in and around Baghdad Sunday morning killed five people, including four policemen, and wounded 24 others, security officials said.


Lack of water threatens Iraq's long-term stability (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 01:39 AM PDT

Reuters - Abdullah Hasan blames chronic water shortages for ruining his crops and has little faith a new government will be able to revive Iraq's agriculture sector, shattered by war and starved of investment.
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