2012年2月16日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Phoenix police arrest Iraqi woman for burning daughter (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:07 PM PST

Reuters - An Iraqi woman who police said padlocked her daughter to a bed for violating the family's traditional values has been re-arrested in Phoenix, accused of scorching the young woman with a hot spoon for refusing an arranged marriage, police said on Thursday.

Judicial probe says Iraqi VP behind death squads (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:54 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 file photo, Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press near Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. An Iraqi investigation panel says the country's Sunni vice president and his employees were behind years of deadly attacks on security officials and Shiite pilgrims. Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar did not offer any evidence Thursday to back up the panel's findings. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has denied the charges and accuses Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of coordinating a smear campaign to consolidate power. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)AP - An Iraqi judicial panel said Thursday the Sunni vice president and his employees ran death squads that killed security officials and Shiite pilgrims. The findings, touted as the first independent assessment of the accusations, were likely to only further hike sectarian tensions over the politically divisive case.

Iranian dissidents in Iraq agree to move to new camp (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:51 AM PST

Reuters - The leader of an exiled Iranian opposition group said Thursday she had agreed to start relocating Iranian dissidents from a long-disputed camp in Iraq after receiving assurances from the United States about their safety.

Iraqis profit from Syrian arms smuggling (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:23 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 photo Iraqi smuggler Younis al-Lehaibi, 46, dismantles an AK-47 machine-gun at his house in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. To be successfully smuggled into Syria, the rifles are taken apart and hidden in cigarette cartons and kerosene tanks. Younis al-Lehaibi and his sons divide them into their trucks and head out to the vast, dusty border. (AP Photo)AP - The rifles are first taken apart and hidden in cigarette cartons and kerosene tanks. Younis al-Lehaibi and his sons then divide them into their trucks and head out to Iraq's vast, dusty border with Syria. Their objective: to smuggle weapons to Syrian rebels who seek the overthrow of President Bashar Assad.

U.N. urges Iraq to move Iranian dissidents to new camp (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:14 PM PST

Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Iraq on Wednesday to speed up the transfer of Iranian dissidents at a camp near Baghdad to a temporary facility that the dissident group has compared to a prison.

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