2011年9月12日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Officials: 22 Shiite pilgrims found dead in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:16 PM PDT

People gather after a building collapsed in the southern town of Zubair, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, killing four people and injuring at least six others, according to officials. (AP Photo / Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Gunmen forced their way onto a bus of traveling Shiite pilgrims Monday and shot all 22 men onboard as they traveled through western Iraq's remote desert on a trip to a holy shrine, security officials said.


Gunmen kill 22 Shi'ite Iraqi pilgrims: police (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:57 PM PDT

People gather after a building collapsed in the southern town of Zubair, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, killing four people and injuring at least six others, according to officials. (AP Photo / Nabil al-Jurani)Reuters - Gunmen killed 22 Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims in an ambush in the Sunni heartland province of Anbar on Monday, a police official said.


Lawyer: Ga. soldier didn't kill roommates in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 01:41 PM PDT

William Noonan, left, and his daughter Sheminith Noonan, second from the right, react as they leave the arraignment for Spc. Neftaly Platero, Monday Sept. 12, 2011 in Fort Stewart, Ga. Platero, a soldier with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, is charged with killing William Noonan's son, Pfc. Gebrah Noonan and one other soldier along with attempted premeditated murder of a third soldier. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - A U.S. soldier charged with killing two of his Army roommates and wounding another after an argument in Iraq last fall is innocent and should be cleared of murder charges by forensic evidence, his defense attorney said Monday.


NATO to continue Iraq training mission to end: 2013 (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 12:32 PM PDT

Reuters - NATO will continue a small training mission in Iraq until the end of 2013, an alliance official said on Monday, in what could signal flexibility from Baghdad over the presence of foreign troops months before a deadline for all U.S. forces to withdraw.

Swedish terror suspects from Somalia, Iraq (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 09:52 AM PDT

The Alvsborg bridge and the Roda Stens art exhibition center is seen Sunday Sept. 11, 2011. Police evacuated the Roda Sten arts center, located beneath the city's landmark half-mile (933-meter) Alvsborg bridge, due to a threat deemed to pose 'serious danger for life, health or substantial damage of property.' Swedish police arrested four people on suspicion of preparing a terror attack and evacuated an arts center in Sweden's second largest city on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Adam Ihse/SCANPIX)   SWEDEN OUTAP - Four men arrested on terror suspicions over the weekend in Sweden's second-largest city were identified in court documents Monday as local residents in their 20s and originally from Somalia and Iraq.


5 dead in southeast Turkey after Kurdish attacks (AP)

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:05 AM PDT

People gather after a building collapsed in the southern town of Zubair, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, killing four people and injuring at least six others, according to officials. (AP Photo / Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Kurdish rebels attacked a police station and a paramilitary police headquarters near Turkey's border with Iraq, killing five people, including three civilians, the region's governor said Monday.


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