2011年4月22日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iran vs. Iraq: Why Tehran Is Nervous About Iraqi Oil (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 02:35 PM PDT

Time.com - Sanctions have cut into Tehran's oil sales, and now the Islamic Republic is getting competition from Iraq's increased petroleum production

ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 12:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), reacts during his lecture at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the 'shame of a needless war' in Iraq. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)AP - Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq.


Mullen: Iraq must decide soon on US troops (AFP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 12:23 PM PDT

US Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holds a press conference in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. He said Iraq must decide soon if it needs American forces to stay in Iraq beyond a planned departure at the end of this year.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq has just "weeks" to decide if it needs US troops to stay beyond a year-end deadline, the top American military officer warned on Friday, cautioning that time was running out.


Mullen urges Iraq to decide soon on troop presence (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 12:22 PM PDT

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 22, 2011. The top U.S. military officer says Iraq must act very soon if it wants American forces to stay longer in the country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The top U.S. military officer said Friday that Iraq must act very soon if it wants American forces to stay longer in the country, as discussions intensify over whether to keep any troops past this year.


Appeals court revives Blackwater shooting case (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 11:58 AM PDT

AP - An appeals court on Friday resurrected the case against four Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a 2007 shooting in a Baghdad public square that killed 17 Iraqi citizens.

Iraq must decide in "weeks" on U.S. troops: Admiral Mullen (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 11:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq has only weeks to decide if it wants to keep U.S. troops beyond an end-2011 deadline for their withdrawal, the top U.S. military officer said Friday in Baghdad following talks with Iraq's prime minister.

U.S. court reinstates Blackwater Iraq shooting case (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 09:11 AM PDT

Blackwater Worldwide security guards Donald Ball (L) and Dustin Heard leave the federal courthouse in Washington, January 6, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - A U.S. federal judge erred in dismissing all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007, an appeals court ruled on Friday.


US mulls 'keeping 10,000 troops in Iraq' (AFP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2011 03:45 AM PDT

US soldiers conduct a routine patrol to search for weapons in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in June 2010. US and Iraqi officials are looking into keeping 10,000 US troops in the country beyond a year's end deadline for a complete withdrawal, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.(AFP/US Army/File/Special Joshua E. Powell)AFP - US and Iraqi officials are looking into keeping 10,000 US troops in the country beyond a year's end deadline for a complete withdrawal, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.


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