2013年2月9日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Deadly Rocket & Mortar Attack on Iranian Exile Camp in Iraq: Iran Policy Committee Finds Camp Liberty to be Unsafe; Return Exiles to Camp Ashraf, Iraq

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 02:29 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Major newspapers, including The New York Times, report rocket and mortar attacks on Iranian dissidents in Iraq. The BBC reports an Iraqi interior ministry official as stating the rockets were thought to have been fired from an area west of Baghdad where the Badr Brigade operates. It is the military wing of the Badr Organization, a Shia group aligned with the Iranian regime. ...

6 dead in rocket attack on Iraqi refugee camp

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 10:34 AM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 file photo, Members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq organization chant slogans and hold banners during a tour organized by the Iraqi government for foreign diplomats in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi police on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 say assailants have fired rockets at a refugee camp for an Iranian exile group outside Baghdad, killing at least six people and wounding more than 40. The camp houses members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, the militant wing of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — Rockets and mortar rounds struck a refugee camp for Iranian exiles next to Baghdad's international airport before dawn Saturday, killing six people and wounding about 40, police and U.N. officials said.


U.N. chief condemns attack on Iran dissidents in Iraq

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 08:54 AM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly attack on an Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital early on Saturday and demanded an investigation by Iraqi authorities. "(Ban) strongly condemns the mortar attack today on Camp Liberty, the temporary transit facility near Baghdad for former residents of Camp Ashraf," his press office said in a statement. At least five people were killed and more than 25 wounded in the rocket attack, police sources said. ...

Journey to Normal: Women of War Come Home

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 07:39 AM PST

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Join the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania on Monday, Feb. 25, at noon to hear from JulieHera DeStefano, producer and director of "Journey to Normal: Women of War Come Home," a feature-length documentary about women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.  She launched this project in 2009 to explore the psychological and social dynamics of their service, to follow their re-integration into civilian life, and to preserve their stories.  It is due for theatrical release nationwide in fall 2013. ...

Liberal in domestic issues, Obama a hawk on war

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 06:58 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Lansdowne, Va. For all of his liberal positions on the environment, taxes and health care, Obama is a hawk when it comes to the war on terror. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — For all of his liberal positions on the environment, taxes and health care, President Barack Obama has proved to be a hawk when it comes to fighting terrorism.


Top U.S. officer says sufficient troops to remain in Afghanistan

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 04:50 AM PST

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer said on Saturday he was confident enough U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after 2014 to accomplish the three-part mission agreed to by allies at last year's NATO summit in Chicago. Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he did not know whether President Barack Obama would announce the size of the post-2014 U.S. force for Afghanistan during his upcoming State of the Union address. ...

Bush's Paintings and the Art of Projecting Guilt

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 04:11 AM PST

What's George W. Bush more annoyed about, getting hacked or getting psychoanalyzed? Hard to know, but I'm betting on the latter.

Attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq kills five

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 03:15 AM PST

A supporter of the People's Mojahedin Organization Of Iran cries as she demonstrates outside the U.S. Embassy in LondonBAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and more than 25 wounded in a rocket attack on an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq's capital Baghdad early on Saturday, police sources said. The dissident group Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) said six people including a woman died after its camp was hit by mortars and missiles, while the U.N. mission in Iraq said it was aware of a number of deaths. MEK calls for the overthrow of Iran's clerical leaders and fought alongside the forces of former Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. ...


Iraq's Maliki: Assad could hold on for years

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 03:10 AM PST

RIYADH (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could survive two more years of revolt despite U.S. expectations of a more imminent fall, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted as saying on Saturday. Maliki, a Shi'ite Muslim, is seen as close to Assad's main ally Iran, but has been careful not to express support for either the Syrian leader, fighting a rebellion since early 2011, or the predominantly Sunni opposition. In an interview in Cairo with the Saudi-owned, London-based Asharq al-Awsat, Maliki said U.S. ...

Family of victim in gun range death defends outing

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 06:47 PM PST

MIDLOTHIAN, Texas (AP) — The man killed alongside a former Navy SEAL sniper at a Texas shooting range was helping his friend work with a troubled war veteran, and the outing was intended to be a "therapeutic situation," his relatives said Friday following his funeral.

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