2011年2月7日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Marine gets 6-year prison term for Iraq fraud (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 04:32 PM PST

Reuters - A U.S. Marine Corps captain who last year pleaded guilty to skimming nearly $1.7 million from government contracts in Iraq was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Monday.

Corrected: Marine captain gets 6-year prison term for Iraq fraud (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 04:21 PM PST

Reuters - A U.S. Marine captain who last year pleaded guilty to skimming nearly $1.7 million from government contracts in Iraq was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Monday.

Refugees forced back to a still-violent Iraq, prompting criticism of European policy (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 09:05 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Working with American media, Ali Jassim Mohammad became used to documenting the misery of Iraqis caught in war. And then he became one of them, in a tale that stretches from Baghdad to Sweden and back, and underscores the growing problem of European nations deporting Iraqi refugees to a homeland still wracked by violence.

Rumsfeld admits 'possible' Iraq troop mistakes (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 08:43 AM PST

Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC 2006. Rumsfeld said in an interview Monday the world was better off without Saddam Hussein but conceded his troop decisions in the Iraq war may have been wrong.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview Monday the world was better off without Saddam Hussein but conceded his troop decisions in the Iraq war may have been wrong.


Grandchildren visit Aziz jailed in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 02:02 AM PST

Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz testifies for the defence during Saddam Hussein's trial in Baghdad in 2006. Aziz, who is now on death row himself, received a family visit by his wife and seven of their grandchildren last week, his son Ziad told AFP.(AFP/File/Marco Di Lauro)AFP - Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former deputy premier now on death row, received a family visit by his wife and seven of their grandchildren last week, his son Ziad told AFP on Monday.


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