Monday, February 20, 2012

Kurds shield Iraq VP in death squads case (AP)

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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.


Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq

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