2012年1月6日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Blackwater settles Iraq killings suit (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:29 PM PST

Reuters - A wrongful death lawsuit linked to a defining moment of the Iraq war has ended with the company formerly known as Blackwater agreeing to settle with the families of four security contractors killed in a gruesome 2004 ambush.

Iran group say U.S. responsible for members in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 02:11 PM PST

Reuters - The leader of an Iranian dissident group in Iraq said Friday the United States would be responsible for any harm that came to 3,000 of its members who could be forcefully moved to a camp outside Baghdad that they describe as a prison.

Blackwater suit ends 7 years after Fallujah deaths (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:11 PM PST

AP - Days after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, a federal appeals court ended a lawsuit over an episode that produced one of the more disturbing images of the war: the grisly killings of four Blackwater security contractors and the hanging of a pair of their bodies from a bridge in Fallujah.

Jury selection continues for Iraq war crime trial (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:37 PM PST

AP - Jury selection will resume Friday for the trial of the final defendant in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops to emerge from the Iraq war.
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