2011年6月1日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Fingerprints in terror case unchecked for months (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:57 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service, Waad Ramadan Alwan, 30, an Iraqi living as a refugee in Bowling Green, Ky., is shown. Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, another Iraqi refugee, tried to send sniper rifles, Stinger missiles and money to al-Qaida operatives in their home country, and both boasted of using improvised explosives against American troops there before moving to the U.S., according to court documents unsealed Tuesday, May 31, 2011. The men were arrested after an investigation that began months after they arrived in the U.S. in 2009. Neither is charged with plotting attacks within the United States, and authorities said their weapons and money didn't make it to Iraq because of a tightly controlled undercover investigation. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service via The Courier-Journal)AP - While an Iraqi refugee spent two years in the U.S. plotting to help al-Qaida attack American soldiers in Iraq, court documents say, federal authorities unknowingly had evidence that already linked him a roadside bomb in his home country in 2005.

Iraq transition 'vital' for Middle East, US officials say (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 01:56 PM PDT

Iraqi police man a checkpoint in Kirkuk in May 2011. The transition from a strong US military presence in Iraq to an expanded diplomatic role is AFP - The transition from a strong US military presence in Iraq to an expanded diplomatic role is "vital" to ensure security in the Middle East, US officials said Wednesday.

Iraq: Wedding attack kills 3 south of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 01:13 PM PDT

Iraqi police man a checkpoint in Kirkuk in May 2011. The transition from a strong US military presence in Iraq to an expanded diplomatic role is AP - A wedding celebration turned deadly Wednesday when a bomb hidden in a plastic bag killed three people and wounded 18 in a town south of the Iraqi capital, police and hospital officials said

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,454 (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 07:11 AM PDT

AP - As of Wednesday, June 1, 2011, at least 4,454 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq has most unsolved murders of journalists: watchdog (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:53 AM PDT

Iraqi Army soldiers stand guard during a handover ceremony of a US military outpost to Iraqi control in the Sadr City area of Baghdad. Unsolved violence against media in Mexico rose sharply in 2010 but Iraq remained worst in the world when it comes to punishing murders of reporters, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - Unsolved violence against media in Mexico rose sharply in 2010 but Iraq remained worst in the world when it comes to punishing murders of reporters, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday.

Iraqi Muslims, Christians pray for calm in north (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:05 AM PDT

Local Iraqi leaders -- Arabs, Kurds, Christians and Muslims -- jointly pray with Christian Iraqis in a church in Kirkuk late on May 31. Around 1,500 people gathered at the Chaldean Cathedral singing Christian hymns before reciting prayers and verses from the Bible and the Koran.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Iraqi Muslim leaders have joined their Christian counterparts for prayers at a church in Kirkuk, in a public bid to ease tensions in the disputed northern city.

Iraqi refugees indicted on US terror charges (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 07:04 PM PDT

A stinger missile sits on the folded wing of an F/A-18 Hornet. Two Iraqis living in the United States have been arrested on AFP - Two Iraqi refugees began scheming to ship missiles, guns and money to their home country for use in attacks on US troops shortly after arriving in the United States, officials said.

Iraqi refugees in Kentucky charged with planning to help arm Al Qaeda (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 May 2011 04:55 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Two Iraqi nationals who came to the US as refugees have been arrested in Kentucky on charges that they conspired to provide money, weapons, and other support to Al Qaeda in Iraq, federal officials announced on Tuesday.

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