2012年12月17日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Illicit money flows grow in China, Iraq-report

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 04:09 PM PST

(Reuters) - Some 150 developing countries, led by China, have been the source of flows of tainted money totaling $5.9 trillion over 10 years through 2010, Global Financial Integrity, a research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., said on Monday. Flows of illicit money from tax evasion, crime and corruption in the developing world have roared back to pre-financial crisis levels, topping nearly $859 billion in 2010, near the all-time high of $871 billion in 2008, it said. In 2009, following the global financial crisis, the figure dropped to $776 billion. ...

Syria "genuinely worried" extremists could get chemical weapons

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 03:09 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria is "genuinely worried" that some countries might equip extremist groups with chemical weapons and then claim they were used by the Syrian government, the country's U.N. envoy said in a letter to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council. Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari also accused the U.S. government of supporting "terrorists" in Syria and waging a campaign that claims Syria could use chemical weapons in the 20-month-old civil war that has killed at least 40,000 people. ...

Senior al Qaeda man reported arrested in Algeria

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 02:32 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - The number two in the militant Islamist organization Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has been arrested in northern Algeria, an Algerian news website reported on Monday. The website of Tout Sur l'Algerie (TSA), an electronic daily, quoted security sources as saying that Salah Gasmi had been arrested on Sunday in front of a restaurant in the town of Cheurfa, about 90 miles southeast of Algiers. It was not possible to confirm the report immediately. AQIM is a pan-Maghreb jihadist organization that has taken responsibility for a number of attacks, particularly in Algeria. ...

Bin Laden movie "Zero Dark Thirty" arrives, mired in controversy

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 11:13 AM PST

Bigelow waves at the premiere of "Zero Dark Thirty"at the Dolby theatre in HollywoodNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow could have made a testosterone-fueled shoot-'em-up Hollywood version of the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Instead, she and screenwriter Mark Boal turned "Zero Dark Thirty" into a more complex look at the decade-long hunt for the al Qaeda leader, including a frank presentation of U.S. torture and previously undisclosed details of the mission to hunt down the man behind the September 11 attacks. When the film opens in limited U.S. ...

Wave of bombings kills 25 across Iraq

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:53 AM PST

A boy walks in rubble at the scene of a car bomb attack in al-Mouafaqiyah, a village inhabited by families from the Shabak ethnic group, near the city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Three car bomb explosions in Iraq's north on Monday, killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo)A wave of bombings hit ethnically disputed northern areas and other parts of Iraq on Monday, killing 25 people and wounding dozens.

US-Iraq ties still evolving a year after war's end

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:12 AM PST

Street vendors sell used US army military gear in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. A year after the last American troops rumbled out of Iraq, the two countries are still trying to get comfortable with a looser, more nuanced relationship as the young democracy struggles to cope with ongoing political upheaval and the legacy of war. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)A year after the last American troops rumbled out of Iraq, the two countries are still trying to get comfortable with a looser, more nuanced relationship as the young democracy struggles to cope with political upheaval and the legacy of war.

Manhattan College Honors CBS Television Host Julie Chen at 2013 De La Salle Dinner

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:02 AM PST

Chen, host of The Talk and Big Brother to receive medal.Riverdale, NY (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 Television personality Julie Chen, host of CBS' The Talk and Big Brother, will receive the 2013 De La Salle medal at Manhattan College's annual fundraising dinner on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. The event will be held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. As co-host and moderator of The Talk, network television's fastest growing daytime talk show, Chen works alongside Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood and Aisha Tyler. ...

AP: Workers say charity gave little money to vets

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 08:40 AM PST

AP: Workers say charity gave little money to vetsA veterans charity already under scrutiny for how it raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in Tennessee handed out only a fraction of the money in the form of gift cards and threatened to fire workers ...

Tea Party the Fuel Behind GOP Diversity

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 08:35 AM PST

For Republicans who believe the tea party is responsible for the GOP's struggles, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's decision to choose Rep. Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the Senate would have come as a stunner. The nation's second Indian-American governor appointed the only African-American who will be serving in the Senate come 2013. And not only are they both Republicans, they are tea party-aligned conservatives who took on the party establishment and won.

U.S. National Guard Awarded GSN 2012 Most Notable Emergency Response Implementation for Usage of the Desktop Alert Mass Notification System Nationwide

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 08:34 AM PST

Award reflective of the Desktop Alert Emergency Notification Platform Selection for nationwide deployments to the U.S. Air National Guard and The U.S. Army National Guard enterprise-wide computerized networks. Key award criteria was based on highly positive past performance reports provided to Desktop Alert by the National Guard. ...

Brigadier General Paul L. Wentz To Join True North Logistics

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 08:26 AM PST

Brigadier General Paul L. Wentz To Join True North LogisticsDowners Grove, IL (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 True North Logistics (TNL) announces that Brigadier General (U.S. Army Retired) Paul L. Wentz will join TNL as Vice President for Army Programs. BG Wentz brings extensive experience in logistics operations and management to TNL and his addition emphasizes TNL's recent decision to increase its expertise and capability to provide maintenance, repair and other related support services to the Army and other DoD organizations. He will be based in the True North Logistics Huntsville, AL. ...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey Brings Cheer to Troops Abroad on Second Annual USO Holiday Tour

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 07:42 AM PST

Continuing a time honored tradition of taking celebrity sports figures and entertainers overseas to visit and uplift troops over the holidays, General Dempsey just wrapped up the first leg of his seven-day, four-country USO tour. Along for the spirit lifting journey abroad are: Washington Capitals forward Matt Hendricks, Washington Nationals pitchers Ross Detwiler and Craig Stammen, critically-acclaimed country music singer Kellie Pickler and comedian/CBS "Excused" host Iliza Shlesinger. ...

Jihadis bankroll aid efforts in Syria to win followers

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 07:40 AM PST

To keep his small charity afloat in Aleppo where the cost of supplies have doubled and tripled in recent months, Abu Ahmad must cobble together funding from a range of donors that includes everyone from wealthy Syrian expatriates to charities in Europe.

Republican Diversity Fueled by Tea Party

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 06:50 AM PST

For Republicans who believe the tea party is responsible for the GOP's struggles, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's decision to choose Rep. Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the Senate would have come as a stunner. The nation's second Indian-American governor appointed the only African-American who will be serving in the Senate come 2013. And not only are they both Republicans, they are tea party-aligned conservatives who took on the party establishment and won.

Rutgers Partners with Pearson to Expand Access and Offer Greater Variety of Fully Online Graduate Degree Programs

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 06:36 AM PST

Partnership offers new services, technology and content.New Brunswick, NJ (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 For more than a decade, thousands of Rutgers University students have been able to broaden their educations by taking a wide range of online courses offered by the university.Now Rutgers is preparing to significantly expand the reach of the university's online curriculum to even more students across New Jersey and beyond. ...

Wave of bombings kills 19 across Iraq

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 05:58 AM PST

A boy walks in rubble at the scene of a car bomb attack in al-Mouafaqiyah, a village inhabited by families from the Shabak ethnic group, near the city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Three car bomb explosions in Iraq's north on Monday, killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo)A wave of bombings across Iraq on Monday targeted residents of ethnically disputed areas and Shiite pilgrims, killing 19 people and wounding dozens.

Bombers, gunmen attack disputed Iraqi-Kurd areas

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 04:55 AM PST

Students inspect a damaged house after a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of BaghdadKIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Bombers and gunmen killed at least 26 people in attacks mostly in northern Iraqi towns and villages on Monday in the second consecutive day of violence in areas at the center of a bitter feud between Baghdad and autonomous Kurdistan. The ethnically mixed "Disputed Territories" - the swathe of land marking Iraq from the area administered by Kurds in the north - have been a potential flashpoint for conflict since the buffer of the last American troops left a year ago. ...

10 things you need to know today: December 17, 2012

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 12:22 AM PST

President Obama waves after speaking at an interfaith vigil in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 16.Obama vows action on gun violence, Syria's vice president wants unity, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

The Solution to Pain is Now Available Online by BecomePainFree.com

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 12:14 AM PST

A New Website – BecomePainFree.com – Helps Those in Pain to HealDallas, Texas (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 Become Pain Free, a subsidiary of ACO America, an accountable care organization that tracks and organizes patient outcomes - has launched a new web site, BecomePainFree.com. Become Pain Free is a consumer friendly site for and provides information regarding the most innovative, advanced, minimally invasive procedures available to assist patients in their efforts to find solutions to their acute or chronic pain. ...

Blast kills 5 in disputed area in northern Iraq

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 11:56 PM PST

Iraqi authorities say a car bomb has killed five people and wounded eleven others in the country's north, the second day in a row in which blasts have targeted disputed regions there.

Former New Mexico Secretary of Corrections Adolph B. Saenz Shares a No Holds Barred Account of Hell in a Santa Fe Prison

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 09:02 PM PST

New book delves into the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S. penal history.Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 On February 2, 1980, the Santa Fe Penitentiary erupted into the bloodiest, most savage prison riot in U.S. history… What caused the 1980 nightmare and was there nothing that could have been done to stop the inmates' savagery?Many books have been written about the murderous rampage that happened at the New Mexico State Penitentiary in 1980. However, only Adolph B. Saenz's book is the only one that offers a political perspective on this tragic event. ...

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