#Baghdad airport official arrested after refusing Lebanese #flight
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The deputy head of Baghdad airport was arrested after a Lebanese airliner that left Beirut without the Iraqi transport minister’s son was ordered mid-flight to turn back, the premier’s spokesman said Friday. Samer “Kubba was arrested... because his action was wrong and harmful to the prestige of the Iraqi state,” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s spokesman Ali Mussawi told AFP. It was unclear what role Kubba, who was arrested Thursday by troops reporting directly to Maliki, is thought to have played in the incident. read more