2010年6月23日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Qaeda claims deadly attack on Iraqi bank: SITE (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:36 PM PDT

A US army helicopter flies over the area where several explosions rocked the Iraqi capital Baghdad on June 13, within minutes of each other. The Al-Qaeda front in Iraq has said it was behind last weekend's twin suicide bombings outside a Baghdad bank that killed 26 and wounded 53 people, US monitoring group SITE reported.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - The Al-Qaeda front in Iraq has said it was behind last weekend's twin suicide bombings outside a Baghdad bank that killed 26 and wounded 53 people, US monitoring group SITE reported on Wednesday.

War uproots Iraq's signature date palms, and their tenders (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:58 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Jawad Kadhim rides his rusty bicycle through Baghdad neighborhoods that have been transformed by violence, sealed off by concrete blast walls and emptied of their once close-knit inhabitants.

Al-Qaida front group says it bombed Baghdad bank (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 10:47 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2009 file photo, Iraq's electricity minister Karim Waheed is seen during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shmatko, not seen, in Baghdad, Iraq. A top government adviser says Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accepted the resignation of his electricity chief who offered to step down amid the nation's power utility woes. The adviser told The Associated Press that al-Maliki may appoint a new electricity minister as early as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - An al-Qaida front group claimed responsibility Wednesday for bombing a state-run investment bank, gloating over its ease in penetrating security in an attack that killed at least 18 people.

Iraqi PM accepts electricity minister's resignation (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:31 AM PDT

Iraqi Electricity Minister Karim Wahid, whose resignation has been accepted by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the wake of protests against electricity rationing.(AFP/File/Karim Jaafar)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday accepted the resignation of his besieged electricity minister who had been the target of public fury and protests over draconian power rationing.

A bigger threat to Iraq than Al Qaeda? Power cuts. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:27 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq’s electricity minister offered to resign Monday night over power cuts that have sparked fatal protests. But the move has failed to quell anger over what Iraqis widely describe as a war being waged against them by uncaring and corrupt politicians.

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