2010年12月29日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


3 suicide bombers used to kill tenacious Iraqi cop (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:15 PM PST

An Iraqi policeman stands guard while hundreds of vehicles are in queue, waiting to be searched, at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Security officials are investigating the possibility of removing some of the hundreds of checkpoints across the city, in a sign of the improving security situation. The checkpoints are designed to catch insurgents, but they also slow down traffic in the already congested city. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Police commander Lt. Col. Shamil al-Jabouri knew al-Qaida wanted him dead. He was renowned in the tense northern city of Mosul for his relentless pursuit of the terror group, and insurgents had tried at least five times to kill him for it. On the sixth attempt, al-Qaida left little to chance.


Iraq death toll set to be lowest since invasion (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:10 PM PST

A policeman looks at a damaged police vehicle following a car bomb in Ramadi on December 27. Civilian deaths from violence in Iraq are on track to be the lowest number this year since the 2003 US-led invasion, according to a preliminary report released on Thursday by a monitoring group.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Civilian deaths from violence in Iraq are on track to be the lowest number this year since the 2003 US-led invasion, according to a preliminary report released on Thursday by a monitoring group.


Monitoring group: Iraq war deaths drop in 2010 (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST

Iraqi policemen stand guard as hundreds of vehicles queue, waiting to be searched, at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Security officials are investigating the possibility of removing some of the hundreds of checkpoints across the city, in a sign of the improving security situation. The checkpoints are designed to catch insurgents, but they also slow down traffic in the already congested city. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A British group monitoring Iraqi civilian deaths said in its annual report that the number has dropped slightly since 2009 but warned of a lingering, low-level conflict in the years ahead.


Iraq civilian death toll lowest since invasion: study (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

Reuters - The number of Iraqi civilians killed in violence in Iraq this year fell to its lowest level since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, but the decline is slowing as low-level conflict takes root, a study showed on Thursday.

Killing of Iraq police chief highlights security struggles as US draws down (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 02:26 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A senior police commander and three other cops in Iraq's northern city of Mosul â€" the most violent of Iraq's major cities â€" were murdered by suicide bombers shortly after dawn today.

Iraq takes over former US detention facility (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 11:25 AM PST

US soldiers fold their national flag during a handover ceremony of Bucca Camp to the Iraqi authorities in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.(AFP)AFP - Camp Bucca, a military installation in southern Iraq where tens of thousands of detainees were once held by the US military, was transferred to Iraqi control on Wednesday.


Suicide bombers kill four in Iraq police station (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 10:09 AM PST

A map locating Mosul. Two suicide bombers on Wednesday killed four policemen in a police station in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, including an officer who oversaw a deadly raid on militants, security officials said.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Two suicide bombers on Wednesday killed four policemen in a police station in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, including an officer who oversaw a deadly raid on militants, security officials said.


Murder trial for British contractor opens in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:18 AM PST

AP - The trial of a British security contractor charged with killing two of his colleagues last year opened Wednesday in Baghdad with testimony from a guard who said the contractor shot him.

Suicide bombers kill police chief in Mosul attack (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:50 AM PST

A policeman looks at a damaged police vehicle following a car bomb in Ramadi on December 27. Civilian deaths from violence in Iraq are on track to be the lowest number this year since the 2003 US-led invasion, according to a preliminary report released on Thursday by a monitoring group.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)Reuters - Three suicide bombers stormed into a police battalion headquarters on Wednesday and killed the commander in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police sources said.


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