2010年12月6日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


US warns of aid cuts if Sadr bloc takes certain Iraqi ministries (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 11:18 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The US is warning that it could cut substantial funding to Iraq’s Health, Education, and Transport ministries if the anti-American Sadr bloc is given those cabinet posts in a new government being formed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Bombs kill 2 kids playing outside home in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 09:57 AM PST

A shop owner, who sells alcohol, inspects his destroyed shop in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. An early morning bomb attack targeted the shop, in central Baghdad wounded several civilians, police said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Two young children were killed and two of their siblings were hurt in eastern Iraq Monday when a bomb went off near the home their family had just reclaimed after fleeing it years ago under threat from al-Qaida, a police spokesman said.


US cable describes controversial Saddam execution (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 12:48 AM PST

Iraqi youths look at footage of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's execution on a mobile phone in a shop at Beirut square, east of Baghdad, in 2007. A newly-leaked US diplomatic cable describes in detail the circumstances of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's execution, from guards telling him to AFP - A newly-leaked US diplomatic cable describes in detail the circumstances of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's execution, from guards telling him to "go to hell" to officials taking mobile phone pictures.


Iraqi school for Roma is basic, but gives hope (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:18 PM PST

Iraqi gypsy children attend a class in the first mobile school for gypsies sponsored by the Ministry of Education in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, in November 2010. It might look modest, but the tent that acts as a class room and the car that doubles as an office are, for the Roma who attend lessons there, the first school of its kind in Iraqi Kurdistan.(AFP/File/Shwan Mohammed)AFP - It might look modest, but the tent that acts as a class room and the car that doubles as an office are, for the Roma who attend lessons there, the first school of its kind in Iraqi Kurdistan.


US shows concern over Iraq's mass arrest of Al Qaeda-linked suspects (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 12:23 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The US military says it is concerned by a lack of coordination in the high-profile arrests of Islamic State of Iraq suspects by the Iraqi Interior Ministry, which has called the operation a major blow against the Al Qaeda-linked group.
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