2010年12月31日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


A doorbell rings, a new attack on Iraqi Christians (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 02:49 PM PST

A woman lights a candle among pictures of slain Iraqi Christians at Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Militants in Iraq have attacked at least four Christian homes with a combination of grenades and bombs, killing and wounding a few people and sending fear into the country's already terrified tiny Christian community, police said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The latest bloody attack on Iraq's Christians was brutal in its simplicity. Militants left a bomb on the doorstep of the home of an elderly Christian couple and rang the doorbell.


US condemns Baghdad bombings (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:23 PM PST

Iraqi Christians pray next to the coffins of Fawzi Ibrahim Mirza and his wife Jeanette during their funeral at the Chaldean St. George church in Baghdad. The United States on Friday denounced a wave of AFP - The United States on Friday denounced a wave of "terrorist" attacks against Christians in Baghdad which left two dead and 16 wounded.


Wave of Baghdad bombings kills Christians (AFP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 07:39 AM PST

Iraqi Christians pray next to the coffins of Fawzi Ibrahim Mirza and his wife Jeanette at their funeral on December 31, at the Chaldean St. George church in Baghdad. The two Iraqi Christians were killed in a new wave of apparently coordinated bomb attacks in the capital just two months after militants massacred 46 Christians in a church in the city.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A wave of bomb attacks in Iraq's capital has killed two Christians and wounded 16, further stoking fears in a community already terrified after a massacre at a church there two months ago.


Iraqi suspect says unaware of Danish terror plot (AP)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 04:18 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 immigrant accused of helping plot an attack against a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad said in an interview published Friday that he was an innocent man arrested while providing three other suspects with an apartment.


Two killed in attacks on Christians in Iraq capital (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 01:20 AM PST

A resident cleans the site of a bomb attack that targeted Christians in Baghdad December 31, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - Two people were killed and at least 16 wounded in a series of bomb attacks on Thursday on the homes of minority Christians in the Iraqi capital, security sources said.


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