2011年8月25日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Hosni Mubarak Trial Invokes Memories of Other Rogue Leaders (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 06:01 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - The trial of Hosni Mubarak has evoked memories of other famous trials of leaders gone bad throughout the world. Three of the most recent trials include: Slobodan Milosevic, Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein. Mubarak appears during his trial lying in a bed and pajamas, a stark contrast to the expensive suits he wore during his reign as the leader of Egypt.

Court says Marine should go to trial in Iraq case (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:46 PM PDT

AP - A military court has rejected an argument by defense lawyers to dismiss a major Iraq war crimes case involving a Marine whose squad killed 24 Iraqis in Haditha in 2005.

Attacks across Iraq kill 14, wound dozens (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:34 PM PDT

A displaced Kurd boy rests near a goalpost after receiving humanitarian aid at a refugee camp near Qandil mountain, a border zone in northeastern Iraq August 23, 2011. Along the Iraqi northern Kurdish region's borders with Iran and Turkey, hundreds of refugees have fled since mid-July to small camps, displaced by attacks by Iraq's neighbours on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels hiding along the frontier in their long war for Kurdish self-rule. Picture taken August 23, 2011.  REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY)Reuters - A car bomb blew up near a Shi'ite mosque in the southern oil hub of Basra Thursday, killing four people and wounding dozens, security officials said, as a wave of blasts killed at least 14 across Iraq.


Bombs kill 15 in attacks across Iraq (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:21 PM PDT

Friends and relatives mourn as they carry the coffin of Ali Saleh, 25, during his funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. A senior Iraqi official from the ruling Dawaa party members has escaped an assassination attempt when a bomb planted late Wednesday outside his home in Zaafariniya neighborhood of Baghdad. The blast killed Salah, one of his bodyguards. (AP Photo / Hadi Mizban)AP - Bombs killed at least 15 people across Iraq Thursday, including eight police officers and a soldier, in the latest strike against Iraqi security forces as U.S. troops prepare to leave.


New Condoleezza Rice memoir to address Iraq, Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Aug 2011 10:34 AM PDT

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a lecture Reuters - Condoleezza Rice will release a follow-up memoir on November 1 that promises to address her top political roles and give new details about the contentious debates in the lead up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.


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