2010年11月23日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Belgium detains 15 in Afghanistan, Iraq 'jihadist' probe (AFP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 09:39 AM PST

A neighbor stands by an attic door that was kicked in earlier in the day in a police raid in Amsterdam. Police busted on Tuesday a Chechnya-linked Islamist network plotting an attack on Belgium and rounded up another extremist group suspected of recruiting jihad fighters, amid heightened terrorism fears in Europe.(AFP/ANP/Marcel Antonisse)AFP - Belgian police detained around 15 people in Brussels on Tuesday in connection with a probe into an Iraq and Afghanistan war recruitment drive, after a separate raid in an unrelated terror investigation.


Lawmaker blasts asylum offers for Iraqi Christians (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 07:40 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2010 file photo, Iraqi Christian lawmaker, Younadem Kana, center, is flanked by security guards as he arrives at a church the morning after its congregation was taken hostage in Baghdad, Iraq. The lawmaker called on Iraq's government Tuesday to better protect its dwindling Christian community and lambasted other nations that have offered asylum to fleeing Christians as meddling in Iraq's problems. The comments by Kana, from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, come after a spate of violent attacks on Iraqi Christians — including a Catholic church bombing last month that killed 68 people.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A Christian lawmaker called on Iraq's government Tuesday to better protect its dwindling Christian community, lambasting the nations that have offered asylum to the minority as meddling in Iraq's problems.


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