2011年4月1日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


APNewsBreak: Blackwater founder questions FBI work (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 12:17 PM PDT

AP - The founder of the security firm once known as Blackwater questioned in a sworn deposition how federal authorities handled their investigation of an infamous Baghdad shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

Officials: Bomber kills 3 outside Iraqi mosque (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:54 AM PDT

Mourners carry the coffin of Staff Col. Khalid al-Janabi during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 1, 2011. Al-Janabi was killed when a suicide bomber disguised as a street cleaner walked up to soldiers protect worshippers outside a Fallujah mosque west of Baghdad and blew himself up Friday, killing two of the troops and a worshipper.  (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A suicide bomber disguised as a street cleaner walked up to soldiers outside a mosque and blew himself up Friday, killing two of the troops and a worshipper in a western Iraqi city that was once an al-Qaida hotbed.


US Baghdad embassy will double in size: envoy (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:12 AM PDT

A picture shows the new US embassy complex in Baghdad and in the background, cranes towering over the construction site of the International High Tribunal (IHT) courthouse, in the heavily fortified Green Zone, on the west bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad 2007. The US Embassy in Baghdad, already the largest in the world, is expected to double its staff.(AFP/File)AFP - The US Embassy in Baghdad, already the largest in the world, is expected to double its staff after American forces pull out of the country later this year, Washington's envoy said on Friday.


35 hurt in clashes at north Iraq protest rally (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:02 AM PDT

Iraqi riot police lift their shields as some 4,000 people rally in Tahrir Square in the centre of the city of Sulaimaniyah, some 270 kilometres (173 miles) north of Baghdad, as clashes broke out following Friday Muslim prayers during protests against the two main Kurdish parties.(AFP/Shwan Mohammed)AFP - Thirty-five people, most of them policemen, were injured on Friday in clashes during protests against the two main Kurdish parties in Sulaimaniyah in northern Iraq, hospital sources said.


Number of violent deaths rises in Iraq in March (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:48 AM PDT

Reuters - The number of civilians, police and soldiers killed in violence in Iraq rose in March, official figures showed on Friday, just days after militants killed 58 people in the month's deadliest attack.

Google localizes search in Iraq and Tunisia (AFP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:57 PM PDT

Tunisian girls check their computers in a Wi-Fi cafe on the Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis in 2010. Google on Thursday began providing searches and results localized for Internet users in Iraq and Tunisia.(AFP/File/Fethi Belaid)AFP - Google on Thursday began providing searches and results localized for Internet users in Iraq and Tunisia.


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