Yahoo! News: Iraq

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Kurds shield Iraq VP in death squads case (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2012 10:17 AM PST 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 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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