2010年12月30日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Two Christians killed in Baghdad attacks (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 12:40 PM PST

Iraqi men walk past Santa Claus decorations displayed outside a shop in Baghdad. At least two Christians were killed and 12 people wounded in a string of six attacks on Christian homes in Baghdad on Thursday, an interior ministry official said.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - At least two Christians were killed and nine wounded in a string of six attacks on Christian homes in Baghdad on Thursday, an interior ministry official said.


1 suspect in Denmark terror case released, 3 held (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:54 AM PST

Danish police officers stand guard as one of four suspect arrested on suspicion of planning a shooting attack on the office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad arrives at a court in Glostup, south of Copenhagen, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The Wednesday arrests rattled Danes and brought renewed attention to simmering anger at the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which has been the target of several attacks and threats since publishing cartoons of Muhammad in 2005, in what it called a challenge to perceived self-censorship. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Peter Hove Olesen) DENMARK OUTAP - An Iraqi asylum seeker accused of plotting a shooting attack on the Copenhagen office of a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was freed Thursday due to an apparent lack of evidence.


Iraqi civilian deaths down in 2010, but in Afghanistan they're on the rise (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 06:52 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - An organization that tracks violent deaths in Iraq says that roughly 4,000 civilians were killed in war-related violence this year, the lowest total since the US invasion in 2003. The improvement came even as the US withdrew tens of thousands of troops and abandoned most of its involvement in combat operations.

Suicide bombers kill four in Iraq police station (AFP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 07:09 PM 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 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.


bnzv