2010年12月13日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Stockholm bomber seen as radical by UK Muslims (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 03:32 PM PST

In this frame grab taken from Associated Press Television News video and provided by Hector Eguia shows a car burning and exploding in  Stockholm on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/APTN, Hector Eguia)AP - At his local mosque in England, Taimour Abdulwahab alarmed elders with his extreme views on Islam. On the Internet, he posted videos of Chechen fighters and abused Iraqi prisoners.


Relatives of Spanish cameraman killed in Baghdad use WikiLeaks to press for justice (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 02:13 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In what could be the first legal case to use filtered WikiLeaks documents as evidence, the family of a Spanish cameraman killed in 2003 by a US tank shell during the battle for Baghdad filed a complaint Monday. They seek to open an investigation into whether high-ranking officials here colluded with the US Embassy to stop charges being filed against three American soldiers, including a colonel.

Barzani's nephew: no Kurdish secession from Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 11:18 AM PST

A picture dated from November 2010 shows Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani. The right to self-determination proclaimed last weekend by Barzani does not imply a desire for secession, the Kurdish leader's nephew said on Monday.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - The right to self-determination proclaimed last weekend by Massud Barzani does not imply a desire for secession, the Kurdish leader's nephew said on Monday.


Joint Chiefs chair in Iraq, meeting prime minister (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 10:32 AM PST

AP - The top American military officer said Monday that any agreement to keep U.S. forces in Iraq past a 2011 deadline would be reached only after Iraqi officials form a new government — a laborious process that began after parliamentary elections in March.

Suicide bomber kills 4, wounds 17 in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 07:18 AM PST

Security personnel inspect the site of a bomb attack in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, December 12, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Four people were killed and 17 wounded by a suicide bomber who blew himself up near a group of Shi'ite pilgrims in a town northeast of Iraq's capital on Monday, days before one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest events.


US top military officer in Iraq: army (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 06:59 AM PST

US Admiral Mike Mullen speaks during a press conference at the defence ministry in Seoul on December 2010. The United States' top military officer was in Baghdad Monday, an American army spokesman said, as US troops enter the final year of their mission in Iraq.(AFP/POOL/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)AFP - The United States' top military officer was in Baghdad Monday, an American army spokesman said, as US troops enter the final year of their mission in Iraq.


Iraq attacks target Shiites, anti-Qaeda militia (AFP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 06:34 AM PST

Troops implement strict security measures on main roads in Baghdad on December 13. A bomb and suicide attack in Iraq killed six people on Monday, including four Shiites and the wife and daughter of an anti-Qaeda fighter, police said.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A bomb and suicide attack in Iraq killed six people on Monday, including four Shiites and the wife and daughter of an anti-Qaeda fighter, police said.


Suicide bomber kills 2 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 05:53 AM PST

Hollywood stars including Clint Eastwood, seen here in October 2010, and grizzled US military veterans joined forces Monday to promote what they called the near-miraculous powers of meditation in overcoming war stress. The event in New York drew an unlikely alliance ranging from fashion designer Donna Karan to traumatized veterans of World War II, Vietnam and Iraq.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jemal Countess)AP - An Iraqi official says a suicide bomber has killed two Shiite pilgrims north of Baghdad during an important religious ritual for the Muslim sect.


Iran conducts large military exercise (AP)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 03:56 AM PST

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates (C) greets Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Pentagon. Gates on Monday held talks with Barak on the threat posed by Iran and the latest Middle East peace efforts, a spokesman said.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)AP - Iran's army has finished a large military exercise by ground forces near the Iraqi border, the state news agency reported Monday. But unlike previous war games in which Iran boasted of weapons advances, the latest maneuvers were largely held under wraps.


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