2012年2月20日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Kurds shield Iraq VP in death squads case (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 10:17 AM PST

Kurdish patrons sit in a local cafe as TV broadcasts a speech by Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi in Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. al-Hashemi slammed government charges that he ran death squads as politically motivated and called on 'all honest Iraqi people' to rise up in his defense. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)AP - Iraq's Sunni vice president on Monday asked for popular support to fight government charges that he commandeered death squads and said he would continue to defy arrest with the help of the nation's powerful Kurds in a showdown that tests the limits of Baghdad's reach.

Iraqi VP, facing terror trial, sees "black comedy" (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:40 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 file photo, Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press near Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's embattled Sunni vice president says government charges that he ran death squads are politically motivated. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)Reuters - Judges ordered one of Iraq's two vice-presidents tried for terrorism Monday in a move the accused, Tareq al-Hashemi, dismissed as part of a "black comedy" devised by sectarian adversaries in government.

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