Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi denied terrorism charges against him Monday, calling them "politically motivated" in a televised speech broadcast from the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the north.
Iraq's top judicial committee on Thursday accused al-Hashimi's security detail of carrying out 150 attacks against security forces and civilians between 2005 and 2011.
Al-Hashimi said Monday that the nine-judge council is under the control of the Shiite-dominated central government and the allegations are "politically motivated."
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I don't think anybody had expected the VP to admit to being a terrorist.
This is tribe against tribe. We are shocked by this?
A FOX affilaite? Come to think of it WHAT HAS AUSTRALIA ever done: achivements or inventions?
EJECTED from the U.K. but not far enough- they invented Mel Gibson, Rupert Murdoch, Assange
and OBESE drinking- land theft, grand theft, and sex with crock a diles on nude beaches.