秘鲁前总统面临25年监禁

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秘鲁前总统阿尔韦托．藤森被判入狱25年，他被确认指挥了上世纪九十年代的多起谋杀和绑架案件。他的律师称藤森将会上诉。藤森的女儿表示会通过领导运动来继续支持父亲。

BBC News with Neil Nunes

Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of ordering killings and kidnappings in the 1990s. He was held responsible for the massacre of 25 people by an army death squad during the war against Maoist guerrillas. The first time in Latin America that a democratically elected leader has been convicted of such abuses. His lawyers say he will appeal. Mr. Fujimori's daughter Keiko said the Fujimo Movement she leads will continue to support him.

"Obviously the Fujimori Movement will not set back and fold its arms. We are going out onto the streets to openly demonstrate our support for the best president this country has had, for the president who saved our country from terrorism, we shall do so peacefully because we feel proud of the job he did. If they think that this sentence will weaken us politically, they are wrong."

On his first visit to Iraq since taking office, President Obama has said it's time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their country. Mr. Obama arrived in Baghdad at the end of a visit to Turkey aimed at rebuilding US relations with the Muslim world. From Baghdad，here is Jim Muir.

Both to his own troops and to Iraqi leaders, President Obama had the same general message. US forces will be leaving. He's keen to get all of them out by 2011 and it's time for the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own country. The next 18 months he told the troops would be crucial. And to the Iraqi Prime Minister and president, he said the leadership must find ways of overcoming their differences and making sure the Iraqi political institutions and security forces will all embracing, so that everybody had a stake in the country's future and stability.