fugitive Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al Hashemi has denounced a death sentence against him as politically motivated and issued by a "kangaroo court", and insisted he would not return to the country.
fugitive Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al Hashemi has denounced a death sentence against him as politically motivated and issued by a \"kangaroo court\", and insisted he would not return to the country.
CLAIM: Tareq al Hashemi said he was the victim of a kangaroo court.
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Patrick Markey BAGHDAD
Mr Hashemi also denounced Iraq's Premier, Nuri al Maliki, as an oppressor who was conspiring with fellow Shi'ites in Iran and driven by religious hatred to engineer the death sentence handed down on him for murders committed by sectarian death squads.
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