2010年10月22日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


US: Iran took hikers on Iraq side of border (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

AP - A previously secret U.S. military report says three Americans detained by Iran in July 2009 for alleged illegal entry were on the Iraqi side of the border at the time.

Leaked Iraq war files detail torture, civilian killings (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 05:00 PM PDT

The homepage of the WikiLeaks.org website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted to it on July 2010 in Miami, Florida. Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran's hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public Friday on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran's hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public Friday on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.


Iraq secret files detail shadow war between US, Iran (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 04:31 PM PDT

The homepage of the WikiLeaks.org website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted to it on July 2010 in Miami, Florida. Secret US files released on Friday show Iran waging a shadow war with US troops in Iraq, with a firefight erupting on the border and Tehran allegedly using militias to kill and kidnap American soldiers.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - Secret US files released on Friday show Iran waging a shadow war with US troops in Iraq, with a firefight erupting on the border and Tehran allegedly using militias to kill and kidnap American soldiers.


Iraq war leaks: No US investigation of many abuses (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 04:27 PM PDT

File - The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington, in this March 27, 2008 file photo. The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In a message posted to its Twitter page on Thursday Oct. 21, 2010, the organization said there was a 'major WikiLeaks press conference in Europe coming up.'  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - U.S. forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their captives as they battled a violent insurgency, according to accounts contained in what was purportedly the largest leak of secret information in U.S. history.


WikiLeaks show U.S. failed to probe Iraqi abuse cases: reports (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 03:52 PM PDT

US soldiers take cover behind a wall as a cloud of smoke rises from an explosion of ordinances while on patrol in the Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad in 2008. Al-Jazeera on Friday released what it called Reuters - The United States knew but failed to investigate cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi police and soldiers, according to reports on Friday about a release of some 400,000 secret U.S. files by the WikiLeaks website.


US condemns WikiLeaks document dump on Iraq war (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 01:59 PM PDT

The Pentagon said Friday that the threatened release of a massive cache of secret military documents by the WikiLeaks website could endanger US troops and Iraqi civilians.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - The United States on Friday said the expected release of secret military documents by the WikiLeaks website could endanger US troops and Iraqis but would not shed new light on the war.


WikiLeaks promises 'major announcement' Saturday in Europe (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 09:16 AM PDT

The WikiLeaks.org is expected to release 400,000 secret military reports. The WikiLeaks website has promised a AFP - The WikiLeaks website has promised a "major announcement" in Europe on Saturday, in a message on its Twitter feed, amid speculation it will release thousands of secret documents about the Iraq war.


No surprises seen in WikiLeaks Iraq war data: Pentagon (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 08:58 AM PDT

Reuters - The Pentagon said on Friday it does not expect big surprises from an imminent release of up to 500,000 Iraq war files by WikiLeaks, but warned that U.S. troops and Iraqis could be endangered by the file dump.

Iraq weapons inspector's death was suicide: UK files (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 08:41 AM PDT

Dr David Kelly arriving to give evidence to the Commons foreign affairs select committee at the House of Commons in London in July 2003. Britain released secret medical files on Friday that poured cold water on lingering conspiracy theories that Kelly may have been murdered. REUTERS/Stephen HirdReuters - Britain released secret medical files on Friday that poured cold water on lingering conspiracy theories that former U.N. Iraq weapons expert David Kelly may have been murdered.


Iraq city with soaring child cancer gets new hospital (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 06:34 AM PDT

A young Iraqi cancer patient sits on a bed in the newly inaugurated Basra Children's Hospital. The hospital was built with multinational assistance and funds, and has been partially operational for several months.(AFP)AFP - Iraq's first specialist cancer hospital for children could not have opened in a needier location -- since 1993, Basra province has seen a sharp rise in the incidence of childhood cancer.


UK autopsy confirms suicide of Iraq weapon inspector (AFP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 05:39 AM PDT

British forensic experts walk towards David Kelly's Oxfordshire home in 2003. The British government has released secret autopsy records confirming that Kelly died by slashing his own wrist, after doubts were raised over the cause of death.(AFP/File/Martin Hayhow)AFP - The British government released secret autopsy records Friday confirming that Iraq weapons inspector David Kelly died by slashing his own wrist, after doubts were raised over the cause of death.


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