إزالة الصورة من الطباعة

Iraqi VP refuses to return to Baghdad; says he can stand for trial only in Kurdistan

Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is charged with running a death squad, told AFP in an interview on Sunday he would not go to Baghdad to stand trial and raised the prospect of fleeing Iraq. In an Al Arabiya report, al-Hashemi said that the charges being set against him are of “sectarian