2011年9月9日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Analysis: Americans say mistreated by U.S., some courts listen (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:03 PM PDT

Reuters - When U.S. soldiers burst into a room where two American employees of an Iraqi security company were hiding in April 2006, the barricaded men thought they had been rescued.

An Iraqi exile gives outlet to Gadhafi's voice (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:27 AM PDT

FILE -- In this April, 26, 2003 file photo, U.S. Maj. Gen. David Petraus, center, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, holds talks with tribal leaders Mishan Al Jabouri, left, and Eyad Hamadani, about the formation of an interim government in Mosul, Iraq. Moammar Gadhafi may be on the run, but he's still talking - the deposed Libyan leader has called a Syrian satellite TV station four times from hiding to rally his dwindling supporters and to insist he will never give up. The station's owner, Mishan al-Jabouri, refuses to divulge much about why Gadhafi calls into the station and whether he knows where Gadhafi and his sons are hiding. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)AP - Moammar Gadhafi may be on the run, but he's still talking — and his outlet is a curious one: clandestine, late-night phone calls to a private Syrian satellite TV station run by an Iraqi exile with a shady past.


Iraq: Victim or beneficiary of September 11 attacks? (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:05 AM PDT

Reuters - Ten years after the hijacked airliner attacks on the United States, Iraqis are swamped in the violent wake of a war launched on a tenuous premise and uncertain if they are headed to democracy or dictatorship.

Rights group calls for probe of journalist killing (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 04:37 AM PDT

Iraq war veteran Jordan Towers poses at the War Memorial building in San Francisco September 7, 2011. Towers joined the Marines after the September 11, 2001 attacks and was deployed to Iraq in 2007. He is now working for  Swords to Plowshares, a group that helps veterans connect to such things as jobs and housing. Picture taken September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Laird Harrison (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY DISASTER)AP - A human rights group is calling on Iraqi authorities to probe the killing of a journalist who criticized the government and helped organize pro-reform protests.


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