2010年9月9日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Gunmen behead, set alight Sunni cleric in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:31 PM PDT

An Iraqi police officer walks in Diyala province in 2008. The imam of a Sunni mosque and a policeman's wife were both beheaded in separate incidents in the central Iraqi province of Diyala on Thursday, police said.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)Reuters - Gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni cleric Thursday and cut his head off before setting him alight in an attack that bore the hallmark of insurgents, a police spokesman said.


4 al-Qaida prisoners escape US custody in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2008 file photo, detainees are seen outside their cell block at the U.S. detention facility at Camp Cropper in Baghdad, Iraq. Four prisoners with links to al-Qaida have escaped from the U.S.-controlled part of a maximum-security prison in Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)AP - Four prisoners with links to al-Qaida being guarded by American troops escaped from a maximum-security prison in Baghdad and are still at large, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday.


Imam and policeman's wife beheaded in Iraq attacks (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:05 PM PDT

An Iraqi police officer walks in Diyala province in 2008. The imam of a Sunni mosque and a policeman's wife were both beheaded in separate incidents in the central Iraqi province of Diyala on Thursday, police said.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - The imam of a Sunni mosque and a policeman's wife were both beheaded in separate incidents in the central Iraqi province of Diyala on Thursday, police said.


Four escape U.S. custody at Iraq prison that held Saddam (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:05 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Four prisoners escaped a maximum-security U.S. military facility housing al Qaida in Iraq suspects and former members of Saddam Hussein's regime, officials said Thursday, in an embarrassing development for American forces as they hand over security operations in Iraq.

Iraqi PM says U.S. should halt Koran burning (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 11:05 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged the United States on Thursday to prevent the American pastor of an obscure Christian church from burning copies of the Koran in commemoration of the September 11 attacks.

After destroying Iraq's army, US retrains former foe (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 09:06 AM PDT

US Lieutenant General Michael Barbero (R) applauds after handing over a symbolic key to Iraqi Samir al-Haddad (C), Secretariat for the Committee for Receiving Real Property, in Baghdad's Green Zone on April 2010. Barbero is the deputy commander for Operation New Dawn -- the US AFP - Ten years ago the military machinations of Saddam Hussein were a security obsession for the United States, but American forces in Iraq now aim to make the army of their former foe stronger than ever.


Four Qaeda prisoners escape US custody at Iraq prison (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 07:45 AM PDT

View of Cropper prison, now known as the Karkh detention facility, on the outskirts of Baghdad. Four senior Al-Qaeda detainees escaped from a US-controlled section of a tightly guarded prison near Baghdad overnight, Iraqi and American military forces said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Four senior Al-Qaeda detainees escaped from a US-controlled section of a tightly guarded prison near Baghdad overnight, Iraqi and American military forces said on Thursday.


Koran burning could be 'pretext' for violence: Iraq PM (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 05:49 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pictured in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil on August 8. Plans by a Florida church to burn Korans on the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks could be used by extremists as a AFP - Plans by a Florida church to burn Korans on the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks could be used by extremists as a "pretext" for acts of violence, Iraq's prime minister said on Thursday.


Iraq holds father and brother of US soldiers' killer (AFP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 05:30 AM PDT

US soldiers are seen parked up close to the Baghdad Governorate building on September 8. The Iraqi army on Thursday arrested the father and a second brother of the Iraqi soldier killed after shooting dead two US troops earlier this week, a police officer told AFP.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The Iraqi army on Thursday arrested the father and a second brother of the Iraqi soldier killed after shooting dead two US troops earlier this week, a police officer told AFP.


Man killed by Vancouver police was Iraq veteran (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:16 AM PDT

AP - A 22-year-old man fatally shot by Vancouver police was an Oregon Army National Guard soldier who served 12 months in Iraq, a National Guard spokesman confirms.

Iraq attack on US soldiers shows ongoing vulnerabilities (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 10:37 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - US and Iraqi officials are investigating the killing of two American soldiers and the wounding of nine others at an Iraqi Army base in what appeared to be the first attack on American forces since President Obama declared the end of the US combat mission.
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