2010年12月2日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq PM calls on football fans to stop celebratory gunfire (AFP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:00 AM PST

Fans celebrate on the streets after Arbil beat Najaf in the finals of the National Championship Footbal League in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil in 2009. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday called for Iraqi football fans to stop firing celebratory gunfire when the national team plays well, as the practice has already left one person dead.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday called for Iraqi football fans to stop firing celebratory gunfire when the national team plays well, as the practice has already left one person dead.


Iraq nabs 39 Al-Qaeda suspects and Moroccan fighter (AFP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 05:16 AM PST

Iraqi security forces patrol the streets of Baghdad in September 2010. Iraqi security forces arrested 39 suspected Al-Qaeda members in the mostly Sunni western province of Anbar and soldiers nabbed a Moroccan fighter in the north of the country, officials said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi security forces arrested 39 suspected Al-Qaeda members in the mostly Sunni western province of Anbar and soldiers nabbed a Moroccan fighter in the north of the country, officials said Thursday.


Iraq calls for swift execution of terror suspects (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 05:11 AM PST

Handcuffed al-Qaida-linked suspects sit in the terrorist combat and organized crime department in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Iraq's interior minister called Thursday for the death penalty for a group of 39 al-Qaida-linked suspects even before they have been put on trial for allegedly plotting to bomb targets in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraq's interior minister called Thursday for the death penalty for a group of 39 detained al-Qaida-linked suspects, even before they have been put on trial for allegedly plotting to bomb targets in Baghdad.


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