If you can recall, back in December the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki issued an arrest warrant for the Vice President, a Kurd named Tariq Al-Hashimi. I wondered if it was just the usual politics or if something deeper was going on.
Well, since then Hashimi has fled the country to Turkey and Interpol issued an alert for his arrest. Perhaps there is something to the allegations against the VP. I'd like to think that Interpol is above the influence of the prime minister of Iraq and that they actually weighed the evidence against Hashimi before issuing the alert.
Whatever the case, Turkey is having none of it and doesn't plan to extradite the VP.
Curious, very, very curious.
Just in case you were wondering, Hashimi is being accused of guiding and financing sectarian death squads that targeted Shias. Of course, Hashimi has also been involved in forming a multi-sectarian alliance political bloc to replace the government of Maliki. Which Hashimi is the true Hashimi?
Or is the truth somewhere between the two, which it often is...
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