2012年2月15日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

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

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:15 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 which the dissident group has compared to a prison.

US Embassy in Iraq facing cuts (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:12 AM PST

A few hundred supporters of the Bahraini government demonstrate Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Muharraq, Bahrain, near a banner with upside-down images of, clockwise from top left, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Bahraini senior Shiite cleric Issa Qassim. The demonstrators chanted slogans against the United States, Iran and Israel and called for closer ties with Saudi Arabia as well as stronger actions against Bahraini anti-government protesters to protect police officers. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is facing a 10 percent funding cut next year but top officials said Wednesday it will still be one of America's largest diplomatic missions in the world.

Iraqi-born Islamist cleric in Norway terror trial (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:53 AM PST

Mullah Krekar, center, seated between his lawyers Brynjar Meling, left, and Arvid Sjoedin, right, in an Oslo District court, Oslo, Norway Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. Iraqi-born cleric Mullah Krekar has pleaded not guilty in Norway to charges of making death threats against politicians and encouraging suicide bombings. The 55-year-old Islamist cleric rejected the charges at the start of a terror trial on Wednesday at the Oslo District Court. A local court declared Krekar a national security threat and ordered him deported in 2005, but later postponed the move because of concerns he could face execution or torture in Iraq. (AP Photo/Berit Roald/Scanpix) NORWAY OUTAP - An Iraqi-born cleric pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of making death threats against politicians and encouraging suicide bombings.

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