2011年5月27日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Funeral for top Iraq official as Baathists blamed (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 03:50 AM PDT

Mourners carry the coffin of the head of Iraq's controversial anti-Baath committee Ali al-Lami during his funeral in Baghdad. Dozens of people attended the funeral of the chief of Iraq's controversial anti-Baath committee, with officials and politicians blaming ex-regime loyalists for his brazen killing in Baghdad.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Dozens of people attended the funeral of the chief of Iraq's controversial anti-Baath committee on Friday, with officials and politicians blaming ex-regime loyalists for his brazen killing in Baghdad.


Iraqi police search for killer of anti-Baathist (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 03:29 AM PDT

Relatives react over the coffin of Ali al-Lami, the director for the Accountability and Justice Committee in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 27, 2011. Scores of people have taken part in the funeral procession for the assassinated Iraqi Shiite official who headed a committee tasked with rooting out those with ties to Saddam Hussein.  The casket of Ali al-Lami, wrapped in the Iraqi flag, was carried on Friday morning by his weeping relatives and friends from his home in Baghdad's eastern district of Sadr City. He was to be buried in the holy Shiite city of Najaf in the south.  (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraqi police Friday hunted for the killer of a Shiite who was responsible for purging loyalists of deposed ruler Saddam Hussein. The official was once implicated in a bombing that killed Americans.


Head of Iraq anti-Baath committee gunned down (AFP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 07:27 PM PDT

File photo of an Iraqi flag in front of an policeman standing guard on a street in Baghdad. Iraqi security forces were on Friday hunting the killers of Iraq's controversial anti-Baath committee chief, who was shot in the head while on his way home in east Baghdad the previous evening.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraqi security forces were on Friday hunting the killers of Iraq's controversial anti-Baath committee chief, who was shot in the head while on his way home in east Baghdad the previous evening.


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