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Officials Charged with Spying* Released

Juan Cole 12/20/2008

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The employees of the Interior and Defense ministries who were arrested earlier this week were released on Friday at the insistence of Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani, who just returned from abroad. He appears to have seen the arrests as a strike at him and his ministry.

Muntazir al-Zaydi, the journalist who shoebushed the US president, will press charges against the people he said beat him when he was taken into custody. Iraqis in several cities have continued to stage protests over al-Zaidi’s imprisonment and prosecution.

The Iraqi government rejected the attempt by the provincial council in Ninevah to post pone the provincial election in that province.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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