2010年6月9日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


3 jewelers killed during robbery in southern Iraq (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 12:44 PM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the decision to send asylum seekers back to Iraq as a campaign group said 10 people had been deported, despite concerns from the UN refugee agency.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AP - Masked gunmen killed three jewelers before fleeing with a large amount of gold in a sophisticated attack Wednesday in southern Iraq, underscoring fears that street crime is soaring as sectarian fighting wanes.


Nine killed in series of Iraq attacks (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 11:18 AM PDT

A German Shepard sniffs a car for explosives at a makeshift checkpoint during a demonstration in Baghdad in February 2010. Nine people were killed, including three jewellers and two members of an anti-Qaeda militia, in violence across Iraq on Wednesday, security officials said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Nine people were killed, including three jewellers and two members of an anti-Qaeda militia, in violence across Iraq on Wednesday, security officials said.


Gunmen, bombs kill six in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 06:15 AM PDT

A German Shepard sniffs a car for explosives at a makeshift checkpoint during a demonstration in Baghdad in February 2010. Nine people were killed, including three jewellers and two members of an anti-Qaeda militia, in violence across Iraq on Wednesday, security officials said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)Reuters - Two civilians were killed when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a U.S. army patrol in Iraq Wednesday, police said, while four other people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in other attacks.


Suicide attack on US convoy kills two Iraqis (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 04:32 AM PDT

A German Shepard sniffs a car for explosives at a makeshift checkpoint during a demonstration in Baghdad in February 2010. Nine people were killed, including three jewellers and two members of an anti-Qaeda militia, in violence across Iraq on Wednesday, security officials said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeting a US military convoy in central Iraq killed two civilians and wounded five other people on Wednesday, a security official said.


French navy rebuilding Iraq ties with port call (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 01:58 AM PDT

French navy sailors walk out of the military dispatch vessel Commandant Ducuing after the French navy ship with 95 sailors on board docked in the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr on June 8. At Iraq's southernmost tip, windswept sands and oppressive heat greeted a once-familiar visitor -- a French naval vessel, making port in the country for the first time in 32 years.(AFP/File/Mehdi Lebouachera)AFP - At Iraq's southernmost tip, windswept sands and oppressive heat greeted a once-familiar visitor -- a French naval vessel, making port in the country for the first time in 32 years.


Soldier arrested in WikiLeaks classified Iraq video case (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 12:39 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The US Army has arrested Specialist Bradley Manning, a soldier deployed in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division, on charges that he allegedly released classified information. The military is looking at a possible connection between Spc. Manning and WikiLeaks, an online whistleblower organization which in April published a graphic video of an Apache gunship mistakenly shooting civilians, according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.
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