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April 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The state of Qatar receiving a wanted person is an unacceptable act and Qatar should back off from this stance, and return him to Iraq,” Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said on Monday during a news conference in Baghdad.
Shahristani also described the self-governing Iraqi Kurdistan region for allowing Hashemi to leave the country as a “clear challenge to law and justice.”
According to a statement issued by Hashemi’s office, the Iraqi vice president “left the Kurdistan region of Iraq this morning, Sunday, going to Doha in the brother state of Qatar.”
The statement added that Hashemi was scheduled to meet Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the press on Sunday that Hashemi “is wanted in a member country of the Arab League, and he should not be received, especially under the title of vice president.”
The development comes a few weeks after the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on March 4 Hashemi is likely to flee Iraq from the Kurdistan region.
Hashemi is accused of involvement in bomb attacks against government and security officials over the past years, including a November 2011 car bombing in the capital Baghdad that apparently targeted Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
On December 19, 2011, an investigative committee within the Iraqi Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant for Hashemi after three of his bodyguards confessed to taking orders from him to carry out the terrorist attacks. Hashemi later fled to the Kurdistan region.
Hashemi denies the accusations and has called for the referral of his case to the Kurdistan region, but Iraq’s judiciary has rejected his request
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