Gunmen pulled reporter Serwa Abdul-Wahab from the taxi she was riding in, shooting her once in the head. As the woman laid dead in the street of Mosul, she joined the ranks of journalists who have been killed in Iraq for reporting the news.
There are conflicting reports to who Serwa Abdul-Wahab worked for in Iraq. [...]
A Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist has been freed after two years of being detained by the United States military. Bilal Hussein was handed over to AP colleagues today at a checkpoint in Baghdad.
“I want to thank all the people working in AP … I have spent two years in prison even though I was innocent. [...]
The story of a journalist for the AP has finally got a bit of good news. An Iraqi judicial panel has dismissed all criminal allegations from Bilal Hussein and ordered his release after a detainment of two years and one day with the U.S. military.
The Federal Appeals Court has granted Hussein amnesty on the allegations [...]
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki wants answers from the U.S. government concerning the renewal of Blackwater. Al-Maliki says the company has yet to answer for the “massacre” of 17 people last year on September 16 at Baghdad’s Nusoor Square.
The fact that the security company’s renewal in Iraq wasn’t brought up to Iraqi officials is a [...]
Halliburton’s KBR is back in the news for allowing workers in Iraq to be exposed to a “mild irritant.” That irritant is sodium dichromate and it’s a little more than an irritant. It’s a highly toxic chemical that causes cancer.
Nine American contractors are suing KBR according to a report from the Boston Globe. For 2 [...]
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At least 12 soldiers in Iraq have been killed by electrocution. One of those was a soldier from Pittsburgh who died by a jolt of electricity while taking a shower. A U.S. House committee chairman has started an investigation into the deaths.
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Going to school students open their books to look at a colour picture of Saddam Hussein on the first page. That was five years ago. How has life changed in five years? Looking at some Iraqi citizens the answer is mixed.
Today freedom of speech has improved in that nation. Shiite Muslims have the chance to [...]
Five years ago the United States was a different country. Five years ago a war was waged against a dictator who had weapons of mass destruction. President George Bush says that he has no doubts that the Iraqi War has been worth it.
Since the beginning of the war in Iraq 3,900 military members from the [...]
Today was another bloody day in Iraq as a female suicide bomber targeted Shiite worshippers. The carnage left 33 dead and at least 50 wounded in the city of Karbala, Iraq. Elsewhere in Iraq, two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb.
The incident was one half-mile away from the Imam Hussein shrine of Karbala, [...]
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