Iraqi newspaper bombed for Khamenei portrait
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An Iraqi woman buys a Valentine’s day gift at Baghdad’s Karrada commercial district on February 14, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi) An Iraqi woman buys a Valentine’s day gift at Baghdad’s Karrada commercial district on February 14, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi)
The staff at #Iraq’s al-Sabah al-Jadeed newspaper have either stayed home, fled to Kurdistan, or left Iraq altogether to escape threats that surfaced after they published a cartoon of #Iran’s supreme leader, #Ali_Khamenei. The newspaper’s offices in Baghdad were targeted and anonymous threats against the newspaper flooded social networking sites.
Bassem al-Rubayi
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