2011年6月20日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

KBR worker says she was drugged and raped in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 03:57 PM PDT

Jamie Leigh Jones, center, pauses before answering a question as her husband, Kallan Daigle, right, and attorney Todd Kelly, stand with her outside the federal courthouse Tuesday, June 14, 2011, in Houston. Opening statements began Tuesday in the civil lawsuit filed by Jones, an ex-female contractor who claims she was raped by co-workers in Iraq in 2005 while employed by a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary and then held against her will when she tried to report the assault. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - A Texas woman tearfully told jurors Monday that she was "scared to death" and held against her will by her employer after being drugged and sexually assaulted in Iraq at the hands of co-workers for military contractor KBR Inc.

War Heist: Did a Marine Pilot Swindle Half a Million Dollars in Iraq? (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 01:45 PM PDT

Time.com - What's telling about the tale of Maj. Mark Richard Fuller is that the government must know what it possesses before it can prove it has been stolen.

Seven Iraqis hurt as bomb hits French embassy car (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:28 PM PDT

Smoke billows from a burning car after an attack on a French embassy convoy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. A bomb exploded next to a French embassy car in south Baghdad on Monday wounding seven Iraqis, but four French security personnel inside the armoured vehicle escaped unhurt, the embassy and Iraqi sources said.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A bomb exploded next to a French embassy car in south Baghdad on Monday wounding seven Iraqis, but four French security personnel inside the armoured vehicle escaped unhurt, the embassy and Iraqi sources said.

Iraq's Sadr calls to punish rogue militia members (AFP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:57 AM PDT

Radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, seen here in January, has called for the arrest and punishment of several members of a former militia linked to a man nicknamed the AFP - Radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called in a letter released Monday for the arrest and punishment of several members of a former militia linked to a man nicknamed the "Shiite Zarqawi" for his alleged atrocities.

French Embassy convoy hit by bomb in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 07:13 AM PDT

A damaged armored SUV belonging to the French Embassy is towed away by Iraqi security forces follow a roadside blast in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 20, 2011. A roadside bomb exploded Monday morning next to a French Embassy convoy traveling through downtown Baghdad, wounding seven people, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - A roadside bomb exploded Monday morning next to a French Embassy convoy traveling through downtown Baghdad, wounding seven Iraqis, officials said, the latest indication that violence is still a significant fact of life in the country.

Bomb hits French embassy convoy in Baghdad (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 03:38 AM PDT

Reuters - Seven people were wounded on Monday when a French embassy convoy was hit by a make-shift bomb in Baghdad in the second attack on the mission's vehicles in a month, an embassy official and local police said.

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