2010年9月6日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq govt wants Aziz to die in prison: son (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 05:25 AM PDT

Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz testifies for the defence during Saddam's trial in Baghdad in 2006. The Iraqi government wants jailed former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz to die in prison and has shown no compassion for his declining health, his Amman-based son said.(AFP/File/Marco Di Lauro)AFP - The Iraqi government wants jailed former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz to die in prison and has shown no compassion for his declining health, his Amman-based son said on Monday.


Five killed in attack north of Baghdad: police (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 05:03 AM PDT

An Iraqi army helicopter patrols over the skies of the capital Baghdad. Five Iraqi businessmen who were involved in building a police station and a youth centre north of Baghdad were killed in a gun and knife attack overnight, police and medical officials said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Five Iraqi businessmen who were involved in building a police station and a youth centre north of Baghdad were killed in a gun and knife attack overnight, police and medical officials said on Monday.


Female, single, over 30: Iraqis count cost of war (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:08 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, Iraqi women shop at a market in central Baghdad, Iraq. Being female, single and 30-plus is not uncommon in Iraq, which lost hundreds of thousands of its young men in nearly 30 years of wars. The problem has been worsened by the bloody turmoil in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and nearly 13 years of U.N. sanctions that left generations of Iraqis too consumed by economic hardships to consider marriage. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Only one of Nidal Haidar's six sisters is married. She has given up on ever getting hitched.


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