Sydney - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that Baghdad reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi who famously hurled his shoes at then-US president George W Bush was lucky to get away with three years' jail.
Al-Maliki, speaking in Canberra during an official visit to Australia, said a longer jail sentence or even execution could have been his punishment.
Baghdad - A leading politician from the Iraqi Islamic Party, part of in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, has been assassinated west of Baghdad, the party announced Thursday.
Faisal Abdallah al-Samrai was among the top leaders of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a descendant of the Iraqi branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and part of al-Maliki's United Iraqi Alliance.
Sydney - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is expected to visit Australia this week, officials in Canberra said Sunday.
Al-Maliki is due on Wednesday and expected to leave on Sunday.
"The success of Iraq's recent provincial elections in January 2009 is evidence of growing security and stability in the country," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said in a statement. "Australia is strongly supportive of measures Iraq is taking to strengthen democracy and welcomes the recent free and fair elections, giving Iraqi citizens a voice in the future of their country."
Mosul - Iraqi security forces on Thursday safely detonated a car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki campaigned in the city two days before Iraq's provincial elections, local media reported.
"An Iraqi army force on Thursday managed to detonate a car crammed with explosives in the Baath neighbourhood of eastern Mosul, without casualties," a security source told the Voices of Iraq news agency.
Washington, Sep 6: Iraqi leaders and officials have expressed disappointment over a report that US had spied on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top leaders.
“If it is true, it reflects that there is no trust and it reflects also that the institutions in the United States are used to spying on their friends and their enemies in the same way,” said Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman of the Iraqi Government.
“We will ask for an explanation,” the Washington Post quoted Dabbagh, as saying.
Washington, June 14 : Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has publicly rejected key US terms for an ongoing military presence and anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a new milit
Sydney - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that Baghdad reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi who famously hurled his shoes at then-US president George W Bush was lucky to get away with three years' jail.
Baghdad - A leading politician from the Iraqi Islamic Party, part of in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, has been assassinated west of Baghdad, the party announced Thursday.
Mosul - Iraqi security forces on Thursday safely detonated a car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki campaigned in the city two days before Iraq's provincial elections, local media reported.
Washington, Sep 6: Iraqi leaders and officials have expressed disappointment over a report that US had spied on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top leaders. 
