2011年6月16日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Ex-spy says US officials went after Iraq critic: report (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:28 PM PDT

Officials in the George W. Bush administration may have tried to use the CIA to dig up information on an Iraq war critic in order to discredit him, the New York Times reported. Glenn Carle, who served as a top counterterrorism official in the Central Intelligence Agency, told the Times that officials twice sought to investigate Juan Cole, pictured in 2006, a professor and widely read blogger.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - Officials in the George W. Bush administration may have tried to use the CIA to dig up information on an Iraq war critic in order to discredit him, the New York Times reported Thursday.

4 former Iraq ambassadors push for embassy funds (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:08 PM PDT

AP - Four former U.S. ambassadors to Iraq urged top congressional leaders to back President Barack Obama's budget request of $5.2 billion for the embassy in Baghdad, the world's largest, as well as the costs of police training and some 5,000 security forces.

Ky gov 'fine' with moving Iraqi terror suspects (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:49 PM PDT

AP - Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear says he supports having two Iraqis face terrorism-related charges at Guantanamo Bay rather than in his state's courts.

Iraq's Mehdi Army faces splits, wary of return to war (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:44 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is reviving fears of sectarian violence with a warning he will unleash his Shi'ite Mehdi Army militia again if U.S. forces stay in the country beyond a year-end deadline.

Iraqi court sentences 15 to death for massacre (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 06:56 AM PDT

Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi speaks to the media after his meeting with Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov in Tripoli. Mahmudi said Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's departure from power was a AP - An Iraqi court on Thursday sentenced 15 alleged al-Qaida members to death for their role in the 2006 wedding party massacre of 70 people, considered one of the most horrific attacks carried out by Sunni-led militants during the insurgency.

Death sentence for Qaeda militants in Iraq massacre (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:20 AM PDT

Iraqi women cry during a protest in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on June 10 to call for the execution of the accused in a 2006 wedding party massacre in Taji, north of Baghdad. Iraq's top criminal court issued death sentences against 15 Al-Qaeda militants for the massacre in which 70 people were killed, a judicial spokesman said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's top criminal court issued death sentences on Thursday against 15 Al-Qaeda militants for a 2006 wedding massacre in which 70 people were killed, a judicial spokesman said.

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