2011年5月12日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Dalai Lama 'sad' about bin Laden killing (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 01:56 PM PDT

The Dalai Lama speaks during a press conference at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, New Jersey. The Dalai Lama said Thursday he was saddened by the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos, which he likened to the 2006 hanging of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.(AFP/Getty Images/Mike Coppola)AFP - The Dalai Lama said Thursday he was saddened by the killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos, which he likened to the 2006 hanging of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Al-Qaeda's Line of Succession: the View from Iraq (Time.com)

Posted: 12 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Even as they mourn Osama bin Laden, sympathizers are invigorated by the outrage over his death. Now all they need is to figure out who will inspire them

Ex-candidate among three dead in Iraq unrest (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT

An Iraqi soldier runs in the northern city of Mosul in 2008. At least three people were killed in attacks in Iraq on Thursday, including a candidate in last year's parliamentary election, security officials said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - At least three people were killed in attacks in Iraq on Thursday, including a candidate in last year's parliamentary election, security officials said.

Al-Qaida allies say they backed Iraq prison break (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 10:38 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman inspects the damage to a house belonging to a lawmaker in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 12, 2011. An Iraqi lawmaker from the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc escaped an assassination attempt Thursday in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)AP - Extremists linked to al-Qaida in Iraq boasted in a statement Thursday that they slipped guns and messages to inmates for weeks before a bloody — but ultimately unsuccessful — prison break this week that left 17 dead.

UK military official: Iraq dossier case for war (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 09:27 AM PDT

AP - A former British intelligence official says he came under strong pressure to find evidence to back up the government's case for war in Iraq.

Britain's Iraq inquiry 'to report in late 2011' (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 08:43 AM PDT

British soldiers secure an area in Basra, Iraq following a roadside bomb in 2006. The official British inquiry into the Iraq war will publish its conclusions by the end of the year but not before October, the chairman has said.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - The official British inquiry into the Iraq war will publish its conclusions by the end of the year but not before October, the chairman said Thursday.

With heavy hearts, Christians leave Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2011 02:13 AM PDT

Iraqi Christian Bassam Anis, pictured at a cafe in Baghdad's Karrada district. Bassam was for a long time an optimist, but persistent attacks against his Christian community convinced him that his home country, Iraq, no longer offered him solace. So, on April 30, he fled.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Bassam Anis was for a long time an optimist, but persistent attacks against his Christian community convinced him that his home country, Iraq, no longer offered him solace. So, on April 30, he fled.

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