2011年1月7日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Stockholm bomber was trained in Iraq, says official (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 02:06 PM PST

Reuters - Iraq informed the United States about a plot to carry out bombings in Sweden two months before an attack in Stockholm by a man trained in Iraq, an Iraqi security official told al Arabiya television on Friday.

Opinion sharply divided on Sadr's return to Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 09:32 AM PST

Supporters of radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who returned to Iraq this week after four years of Iran-based exile, attend the Friday noon prayer at the grand mosque of Kufa in central Iraq. Sadr's return to Iraq has sharply divided opinion in Baghdad, with some residents saying it will bring increased stability, and others predicting conflict and violence.(AFP/Qassem Zein)AFP - Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's return to Iraq has sharply divided opinion in Baghdad, with some residents saying it will bring increased stability, and others predicting conflict and violence.


Gunmen kill five in their Iraq home: police (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 09:28 AM PST

Members of an Iraqi anti-terror unit stand guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad on January 6. Gunmen shot dead five people, including the sister of an Iraqi policeman, in their beds in a house northeast of Baghdad early on Friday, a police official said.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Gunmen shot dead five people, including the sister of an Iraqi policeman, in their beds in a house northeast of Baghdad early on Friday, a police official said.


Police: Iraqi family slain in predawn attack (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 08:26 AM PST

A poster depicting radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr at left as followers gather for Friday prayers in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. Al-Sadr, who led several Shiite uprisings against American forces in Iraq before going into exile in neighboring Iran almost four years ago, returned to Iraq on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Gunmen shot dead a family of five in a pre-dawn attack Friday on a home northeast of the Iraqi capital, police and hospital officials said.


Model security shows mainstream move of Iraq's Sadr (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 08:12 AM PST

Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr reacts during a news conference after meeting with former Iraq's Prime Minister Iyad Allawi in Damascus July 19, 2010. REUTERS/Khaled al-HaririReuters - Anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's security detail has a disciplined quality far removed from his old Mehdi Army militia, hinting at his evolution toward the mainstream that could help stabilize Iraq.


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