2012年2月21日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Marine convicted in Iraq killings leaves service (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 12:15 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 file photo, Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich arrives for a court session at Camp Pendleton, Calif.  The Marine Corps  discharged Wuterich, the lone Marine convicted in the killings of unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha in 2005, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 after reducing his rank.   (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)AP - The Marine Corps has discharged the lone Marine convicted in the 2005 killings of unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, a spokesman said Tuesday.


Saudi Arabia names ambassador to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 09:54 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 file photo, Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich arrives for a court session at Camp Pendleton, Calif.  The Marine Corps  discharged Wuterich, the lone Marine convicted in the killings of unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha in 2005, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 after reducing his rank.   (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)AP - Saudi Arabia is taking a major step toward thawing diplomatic relations with Iraq by posting an ambassador to Baghdad for the first time in more than two decades, Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday.


Big questions still unanswered in Thai terror plot (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:47 AM PST

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, an Iranian bomb suspect Mohammad Kharzei, right, listens to a Thai police officer as he is taken to verify the house where he and other Iranian compatriots rented in Bangkok, Thailand. One week after three Iranians were arrested in an apparently botched terror plot allegedly aimed against Israeli diplomats, profound questions remain unanswered about who was behind it. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - It began when three men blew up their house accidentally on Valentine's Day in Bangkok. It ended with a gory scene that looked more like Baghdad: a bloodied, would-be bomber with severed legs moaning on a glass-strewn sidewalk after another botched blast.


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