2012年1月14日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


US general fights alcoholism after public collapse (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 01:21 PM PST

AP - Retired Brigadier General Stanley Cherrie flew into machine gun fire, lost a leg to a landmine and directed tanks against Iraqi forces in his long Army career. When he walked into a reunion of top brass looking shaky and then collapsed, another side of his military life was revealed: years of hard drinking had grown into alcoholism that nearly killed him.

Bomb kills at least 53 pilgrims in south Iraq (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 11:13 AM PST

Security forces and people inspect the scene of a bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims, killing and wounding some scores of people, police said, near the southern port city of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012.  It was the latest in a series of attacks during Shiite religious commemorations that threaten to further increase sectarian tensions just weeks after the U.S. withdrawal. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - A bomb tore through a procession of Shiite pilgrims heading toward a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 53 people in the latest sign of a power struggle between rival Muslim sects that has escalated since the American military withdrawal.


Attack on Iraqi pilgrims kills 50, scores hurt (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:49 AM PST

Family members of Mansour Ahmed, 38, load his coffin onto a vehicle before burial in Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. Ahmed was killed in a bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims, killing and wounding scores of people, police said, near the southern port city of Basra. It was the latest in a series of attacks during Shiite religious commemorations that threaten to further increase sectarian tensions just weeks after the U.S. withdrawal. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)Reuters - A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 53 people and wounded scores in an attack on Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims at a checkpoint on Saturday.


(AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 03:45 AM PST

AP - Iraq health official says death toll from bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims in south now 53.

Suicide bomber kills 15 in attack on Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 11:08 PM PST

Reuters - A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman killed at least 15 people in an attack that targeted Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims passing through a checkpoint in Iraq's southern city of Basra on Saturday, police said.

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