2012年10月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Soldiers claim illness after guarding KBR in Iraq

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 03:08 PM PDT

A war contractor knew a critical southern Iraq oilfield plant was riddled with a well-known toxin but ignored the risk to soldiers while hurrying the project along, firing a whistleblower and covering up the presence of the chemical when faced with exposure, the soldiers' attorney said in opening arguments Wednesday in a federal civil suit.

Turkey intercepts Syrian plane as tensions mount

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:32 PM PDT

People gather atop the aircraft steps at a Syrian passenger plane that was forced by Turkish jets to land at Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. Turkish jets on Wednesday forced a Syrian Air Airbus A320 passenger plane to land at Ankara airport on suspicion that it may be carrying weapons, Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, amid heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria that have sparked fears of a wider regional conflict.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)Turkish jets on Wednesday forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara airport on suspicion that it might be carrying weapons or other military equipment, amid heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria that have sparked fears of a wider regional conflict.


U.S. military in Jordan, has eyes on Syria chemical weapons

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:28 PM PDT

A Syrian refugee collects water at the Al Zaatri refugee campBRUSSELS (Reuters) - A team of U.S. military planners is in Jordan to help the Amman government grapple with Syrian refugees, bolster its military capabilities and prepare for any trouble with Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday. The team, led by special operations forces and comprising about 150 troops, mainly from the U.S. Army, is constructing a headquarters building in Amman from which to work with Jordanian forces on joint operational planning and intelligence sharing, a senior defense official said. ...


Court poses hurdle to WikiLeaks case file access

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, right, is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md. Lawyers for Julian Assange argue before the U.S. military's highest court for public access to legal documents in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with aiding the enemy for allegedly giving hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents to Assange's secret-busting website WikiLeaks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)The U.S. military's highest court is asking WikiLeaks to explain why the military justice system, rather than civilian courts, is the proper venue for seeking routine judicial documents in the court-martial of an Army private charged with giving classified information to the secret-spilling website.


Turkey intercepts Syrian plane

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT

Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Necdet Ozel, right, listens to a commander during his tour of the military along the border with Syria in Hatay, Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday Turkey was prepared to counter any threats from Syria. Turkish jets on Wednesday forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara airport on suspicion that it may be carrying weapons, Turkey's foreign minister said, amid heightened tensions between Turkey and Syria that have sparked fears of a wider regional conflict.


Soccer-Brazil to play Iraq - in Sweden? Well, it's a trend

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 11:54 AM PDT

SAO PAULO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - While football fans in European capitals will be watching their teams trying to qualify for the 2014 World Cup this week, Brazil supporters will need to travel all the way to Sweden and Poland - to see their side play Iraq and Japan. That might seem odd but it is part of a trend of teams facing off thousands of miles from their home fans against often less-than-traditional opponents. Among the reasons: Time, money, and globalisation. ...

Why Romney plan to give Syrian rebels heavy weapons is seen as risky

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 11:41 AM PDT

Mitt Romney announced this week that as president he would make sure Syria's rebel fighters get the heavy arms they seek to bring down President Bashar al-Assad's helicopters and fighter jets.

Obama and Romney: Where They Stand on the Issues

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 10:50 AM PDT

Where Obama and Romney stand on the issues, from economy and education to taxes and terrorism

Obama nominates top Marine as Afghan commander

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 10:31 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta adresses a news conference during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in BrusselsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated General Joseph Dunford, the No. 2 Marine officer, to lead the war effort in Afghanistan and oversee plans to withdraw most of America's combat forces from the country by the end of 2014. Dunford, if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, would replace General John Allen, who took over command of the Afghan mission in July 2011 and was nominated by the president on Wednesday to become supreme allied commander in Europe. ...


LBJ biography, Mideast memoir among book award finalists

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 10:21 AM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Books about war-torn Iraq and post-World War II Eastern Europe, Lyndon Johnson and Mumbai were among 20 finalists announced on Wednesday for the annual National Book Awards, among the most prestigious in U.S. publishing. The National Book Foundation, which administers the awards, nominated five writers in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. ...

Police investigate 2 in journalist kidnapping

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 10:11 AM PDT

British police are investigating Wednesday whether a British man and woman arrested on suspicion of supporting terrorism offenses in Syria were part of a group that held two veteran war journalists hostage in Syria in July.

Caro, Shadid among National Book Award finalists

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 10:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2008 file photo, author and biographer Robert Allan Caro is shown during an interview in New York. Caro received a nomination on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 for a National Book Award for the fourth of his Lyndon Johnson books, "The Passage of Power." The winners will be announced Nov. 14. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, file)Robert Caro, Junot Diaz and the late Anthony Shadid were among the finalists announced Wednesday for the National Book Awards.


U.S. military in Jordan, eyes on Syria chemical weapons

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 09:20 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta addresses a news conference during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in BrusselsBRUSSELS (Reuters) - A team of U.S. military planners is in Jordan to help the government grapple with Syrian refugees, bolster its military capabilities and prepare for any trouble with its chemical weapons stockpiles, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday. "We have been working with Jordan for a period of time now ... on a number of the issues that have developed as a result of what's happened in Syria," Panetta told a news conference in Brussels. ...


Iraq Officially Retreats From Ambitious Oil Plans

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:56 AM PDT

Iraq retreats from ambitious oil plans, says will still play key role in world energy market

Egypt proposes mortgage law changes to boost home ownership

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:48 AM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's financial regulator has proposed changes to the mortgage law to allow remortgaging and higher borrowing levels for people on low incomes, in a drive to boost home ownership in the country of 83 million. However, Ashraf el-Sharkawy, chairman of the Egyptian Financial Services Authority (EFSA), announcing the proposals on Wednesday, said that no changes could go ahead until they were approved by a yet-to-be-elected parliament to replace the one dissolved this year. No election date has been set. ...

French police find bomb material in terror probe

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:20 AM PDT

Elite police officers and riot police, left, guard a parking lot in Torcy, east of Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 where police found bomb-making material after police broke up a suspected terrorist cell last week. Prosecutor Francois Molins said Wednesday police investigators recovered items including potassium, sulfur, saltpeter and a pressure cooker as well as two weapons in the lot in the town of Torcy. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)French police discovered bomb-making materials in an underground parking lot near Paris as part of a probe of an "extremely dangerous terrorist cell" linked to an attack on a kosher grocery, a state prosecutor said Wednesday.


Turkey vows more force against Syrian shelling

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 07:26 AM PDT

Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Necdet Ozel, right, listens to a commander during his tour of the military along the border with Syria in Hatay, Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday Turkey was prepared to counter any threats from Syria. Turkey's military chief vowed Wednesday to respond with more force to any further shelling from Syria, keeping up the pressure on its southern neighbor a day after NATO said it stood ready to defend Turkey.


New York Civil Rights Violation Lawyer Lauds Judge’s Ruling on NYPD’s Mass Arrests of Protesters During 2004 Republican Convention

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 07:02 AM PDT

Iraq stops paying salary of convicted fugitive VP

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:52 AM PDT

An Iraqi official says the government has decided to stop paying the salary of the country's fugitive Sunni vice president, a month after he was sentenced to death for terrorism-related crimes.

UK police investigate whether 2 arrest in Syria probe for journalist kidnapping

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:28 AM PDT

LONDON - British police are investigating Wednesday whether a British man and woman arrested on suspicion of supporting terrorism offences in Syria were part of a group that held a veteran war journalist hostage last month.

Oil holds above $114 on Middle East supply worries

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:02 AM PDT

A worker holds up a fuel pump nozzle after filling up the tank of a car at a petrol station in CairoLONDON (Reuters) - Brent crude oil held above $114 a barrel and close to a three-week high on Wednesday as worries over the security of Middle East supplies outweighed increasing evidence of slowing global economic growth. Weak risk sentiment coursed through financial markets, pulling down stock markets and boosting the dollar after the International Monetary Fund said a deepening euro zone debt crisis was threatening the global economy. ...


A Whole Lotta Loaf: the World's Largest Meatloaf

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Alternative philanthropists "Burning Loaf" to attempt to set Guinness World Record™ for world's largest meatloaf on October 13, 2012 in San Francisco Bay Area.El Cerrito, California (PRWEB) October 08, 2012 The rules of Burning Loaf are simple: get a group of guys together, barbecue a meatloaf, and give away money.What began in 2004 with a simple—and in many ways ridiculous—idea has gained serious traction. ...

Ambassador John Negroponte to Keynote at ISOA Summit

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 05:46 AM PDT

The International Stability Operations Association is pleased to announce that Ambassador John Negroponte will deliver a keynote address at the 2012 ISOA Annual Summit, to take place at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on 15-17 October 2012.Washington, DC (PRWEB) October 08, 2012 The International Stability Operations Association is pleased to announce that Ambassador John Negroponte will deliver a keynote address at the 2012 ISOA Annual Summit, to take place at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on 15-17 October 2012. ...

CAPE PAC Predicts Ryan Victory In Upcoming Vice Presidential Debate On Thurs., Oct. 11, 2012

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Polls Show Increased Support for Romney-Ryan TicketWASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Coalition of Americans for Political Equality Political Action Committee (CAPE PAC) Chairman Jeff Loyd today predicted a "decisive victory" for Republican vice presidential nominee and U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) in the upcoming debate against Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday, October 11, 2012. ...

Police search 2 properties in Syria probe

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 04:14 AM PDT

British police searched two east London properties Wednesday as part of the investigation into the activities of a man and a woman arrested on suspicion of supporting terrorism offenses in Syria.

Iraq says oil production can be doubled by 2015

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 02:47 AM PDT

Iraq's top energy official is predicting that the country's current oil production of 3.4 million barrels per day will double by 2015.

5 reasons why conservatives are cheering for 'Moderate Mitt'

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 01:30 AM PDT

Mitt Romney speaks during a victory rally at Pier Park on Oct. 5 in St Petersburg, Fla.: Republicans are cheering Romney's move to the center, not because they necessarily agree with his views, but probably because he seems to be gaining an edge over Obama.After years of purging RINOs and enforcing conservative purity pledges, why has the Right embraced Mitt Romney's dash toward the political center?


Brent falls near $114 as sluggish economy outweighs supply risk

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 10:13 PM PDT

An engineer conducts routine checks on oil tanks at a refinery in WuhanSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude slipped near $114 on Wednesday after a jump of 2 percent the previous day, with a cloudy economic outlook offsetting fears about disruptions to Middle East oil supply as a conflict between Turkey and Syria escalated. A stronger U.S. dollar, as investors shied away from risk on concerns about a slowdown in global growth, also weighed on oil prices, making the commodity more costly for holders of other currencies. Brent crude had slipped 37 cents to $114.13 a barrel by 0502 GMT, after a rise of 2.4 percent on Tuesday to its highest since September 18. U.S. ...


The Toll of War: Service Members With PTSD Get Help, but More Is Needed

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 09:18 PM PDT

The young man had served in the Middle East and now, home from a harrowing deployment, was stricken with the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. He became a recluse, refusing to leave his house for months because of fears that he might suddenly snap. But then he was invited to a gathering of veterans who met regularly to work out. He went.

Top US ag negotiator: Farm exports likely down $1B

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 07:24 PM PDT

The nation's top agricultural negotiator said Tuesday that he expects farm exports to be down between $1 billion and $2 billion this year because of the drought.

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