2011年2月9日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Rumsfeld: Saddam Hussein Issued Bounty on Daughters' Lives (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 01:56 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - Public officials take on such roles with the knowledge that they put themselves in harm's way. The realization that actual plots exist to harm members of their families, though, is undoubtedly harrowing. In a recent interview with the popular morning news program "Good Morning America," former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revealed that, in 2003, he received specific information about a bounty that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had placed on his daughters' heads. Hussein apparently issued the bounty in order to seek revenge for the killings of his two sons by U.S. forces. Rumsfeld appeared on the show in order to promote his upcoming memoir, "Known and Unknown," which includes the story about Hussein's bounty.

Bombs kill 7 in ethnically tense Iraqi city (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:38 AM PST

Iraqi firefighters extinguish a fire in a destroyed building after a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Car bombs ripped through the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing several and wounding scores of people in the heart of a region of long-simmering ethnic tensions. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)AP - A suicide bomber posing as a dairy deliveryman struck a Kurdish security headquarters Wednesday, setting off a series of rapid-fire attacks against the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk that killed seven and wounded up to 80 people.

Northern Iraq attacks kill 10 (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:58 AM PST

The scene of a car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Three near-simultaneous car bombs have killed at least eight people in the west of the ethnically-divided city, according to a medical official and a police officer.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Violence in northern Iraq killed 10 people on Wednesday, eight of them in near-simultaneous car bombings blamed on Sunni militant group Ansar Al-Islam.

Three car bombs kill 7, wound 78 in Iraq's Kirkuk (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 06:13 AM PST

FILE - In this May 5, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama, center, gives Sarah Wade, right, wife of Army Sgt. Ted Wade, left, who was wounded in Iraq, a kiss on the cheek, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, before he signed the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act. A long-awaited plan to give caregivers of severely wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans some extra help was unveiled Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, by the Veterans Affairs Department with few specifics about when it would be fully implemented and potentially fewer families reaping the benefit than expected. Sarah Wade is among those wondering whether she will qualify for the extra support. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)Reuters - Three car bombs aimed at Iraqi security forces killed at least seven people and wounded 78 in the northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, police and hospital sources said.

Electricity 'needs tenth of Iraq budget' (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 03:43 AM PST

An boy switches a small generator on with the help of his brother, holding a battery light, in the garden of their home in Baghdad during a power outage. The electricity ministry needs almost a tenth of Iraq's annual budget for debts and new projects to bring the limping power sector back on its feet, a senior official has told AFP.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - The electricity ministry needs almost a tenth of Iraq's annual budget for debts and new projects to bring the limping power sector back on its feet, a senior official told AFP on Wednesday.

Graft finances terrorism, Iraqi official claims (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 02:39 AM PST

Rahim Hassan al-Uqailee, head of Iraq's Commission on Integrity (COI), is seen in his Baghdad office during an interview with AFP. Instead of fighting graft Iraq's ministers prefer to hide departmental corruption, contributing to a major source of insurgent financing, Uqailee said.(AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)AFP - Instead of fighting graft Iraq's ministers prefer to hide departmental corruption, contributing to a major source of insurgent financing, the country's top anti-fraud official said on Wednesday.

US govt seeks to reopen Blackwater case (AFP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 07:21 PM PST

File photo of US private security firm Blackwater contractors in central Baghdad. A US appeals court met behind closed doors as the government appealed a judge's decision to clear five former guards with security company Blackwater of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A US appeals court met behind closed doors as the government appealed a judge's decision to clear five former guards with security company Blackwater of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007.

Rumsfeld memoir: Few regrets from wartime leader (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 12:07 AM PST

AP - It would be an exaggeration to say that in his hefty memoir Donald H. Rumsfeld admits to no mistakes during his years as Pentagon chief. But just barely.

Did Saddam Hussein target Donald Rumsfeld's kids? Five surprises from memoir. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 12:50 PM PST

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