2012年1月26日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Official: Iraq will take legal action over US raid (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:34 AM PST

Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, left, arrives with his military defense attorney, Meridith Marshall for a court session at Camp Pendleton in Camp Pendleton, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - Iraq will take legal action to ensure justice for the families of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians killed in a U.S. raid in Haditha seven years ago, a government spokesman said Thursday, after the lone U.S. Marine convicted in the killings reached a deal to escape jail time.

Attacks by suspected insurgents kill 17 in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:28 AM PST

Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Sadr City eastern of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Two separate car bombs exploded in the Shiite district of Sadr City killing and wounding several people, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Insurgents stepped up attacks around Iraq on Thursday, killing 17 people around the country, including 10 in a bombing attack on a house of two policemen and their families in central Iraq, police and hospital officials said.

U.S. to Iraq: don't "blow this opportunity" (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:47 AM PST

Reuters - The United States has warned Iraq not to "blow this opportunity" to become a prosperous, unified nation, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday, saying it must start to act like a democracy and embrace compromise.

Iraq says to take legal action for Haditha victims (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:07 AM PST

Reuters - Iraq plans legal action on behalf of families of victims killed by U.S. troops in a 2005 massacre after the last soldier involved was spared jail time by a guilty plea with military authorities, a government spokesman said Thursday.

Shiite leader urges end to Iraqi political crisis (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:55 AM PST

Ammar al-Hakim, powerful cleric and leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council speaks to the media during a joint news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, unseen, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. During his visit to Turkey, Ammar al-Hakim urged the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc to end its boycott of the Iraqi parliament amid a deepening sectarian divide in Iraq. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - A top Iraqi Shiite official said Thursday that the political crisis pitting Shiite officials against his country's largest Sunni-backed bloc must end.

Ten dead in attack on policeman's home in Iraq: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 11:16 PM PST

Ammar al-Hakim, the powerful cleric and leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, speaks to the media during a joint news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, unseen, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Ammar al-Hakim urged Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc to end its boycott of parliament amid deepening sectarian divide in Iraq. The political battle in Iraq erupted last month after the Shiite-led government issued an arrest warrant against the Sunni vice president, Tareq al-Hashemi, on terrorism charges, sending him into virtual exile to the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. In protest, al-Hashemi's Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc has been boycotting parliament and Cabinet sessions, bringing government work to a standstill.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)Reuters - An Iraqi policeman and nine relatives were killed as they slept when militants bombed their home south of Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said, in the latest attack on local officials and security forces.

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