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Eugene

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6. BBC: Iraqi PM asks Kurds to hand over Vice-President Hashemi

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 10:44 AM

Dec 2011

Source: BBC

21 December 2011 Last updated at 14:19 GMT

Iraqi PM asks Kurds to hand over Vice-President Hashemi

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has urged the Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq to hand over fugitive Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi.

An arrest warrant was issued for Iraq's most senior Sunni Arab politician on Monday on terrorism charges.

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Mr Hashemi is currently in Irbil, under the protection of the Kurdistan regional government. The warrant was issued a day after US troops pulled out of Iraq.

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