2010年9月26日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

PROMISES, PROMISES: Waiting for Abu Ghraib amends (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 03:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 7, 2004 file photo, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld rubs his eyes while testifying about Abu Ghraib prison before the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Fending off demands that he resign over the ensuing scandal, Rumsfeld told Congress he had found a legal way to compensate Iraqi detainees who suffered 'grievous and brutal abuse and cruelty at the hands of a few members of the United States armed forces.' (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Fending off demands that he resign over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Congress in 2004 that he had found a legal way to compensate Iraqi detainees who suffered "grievous and brutal abuse and cruelty at the hands of a few members of the United States armed forces."

Iran crosses into Iraq to hit bombing suspects (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 01:15 PM PDT

AP - Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 fighters from a group it says was involved in last week's bombing of a military parade, state TV reported Sunday.

Fortified border: Iraq on guard against Iran (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 12:33 PM PDT

AP - On any map, this castle-like fort is located in Iran. But war, time and drifting desert sands have blurred the border, and for now, Iraqi guards stoutly defend Qutaiba as theirs.

Iraqi women embrace American mothers of war dead (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 12:07 PM PDT

An Iraqi Kurdish woman, who lost her son in a chemical attack, left, and an American woman, right, embrace during a meeting of U.S. and Iraqi mothers in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. Nine American mothers whose children died fighting in Iraq were embraced Sunday by dozens of Iraqi women who lost their own children during decades of war and violence in a meeting participants said brought them a measure of peace. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Nine American mothers whose children died fighting in Iraq were embraced Sunday by dozens of Iraqi women who lost their own children during decades of war and violence in a meeting participants said brought them a measure of peace.

Seven killed in Iraq violence (AFP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 12:00 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in Baghdad on September 15. Seven people, including five Iraqi security force members and an anti-corruption watchdog employee, were killed in violence in Baghdad and surrounding central Iraq on Sunday, security officials said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Seven people, including five Iraqi security force members and an anti-corruption watchdog employee, were killed in violence in Baghdad and surrounding central Iraq on Sunday, security officials said.

Iraq inaugurates patrol boat in bid to build up navy (AFP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 09:51 AM PDT

Iraq inaugurates the first in a fleet of new US-built patrol boats (P-301), part of efforts to boost its naval capacity and secure key oil platforms ahead of an American withdrawal at the end of next year at the Umm Qasr Naval Base, around 500 kilometres (310 miles) south of the capital Baghdad.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq inaugurated the first in a fleet of new US-built patrol boats on Sunday, part of efforts to boost its naval capacity and secure key oil platforms ahead of an American pullout next year.

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