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Iraqi Intelligence: A 'Large Country In The Region' Is Involved In 2005 Assassination Of Egyptian Ambassador

Iraqi intelligence agencies have disclosed that they have proof of that a "large country in the region" was involved in the July 2005 kidnapping and murder of Egyptian ambassador to Iraq Ihab Al-Sharif.

According to the information, which came from two Al-Qaeda leaders arrested this year, Al-Sharif angered that "country" by trying to undermine the status of its ambassador to Iraq, and by acting to bring Sunni and Shi'ite Arabs in Iraq closer together.

Source: Al-Arab, Qatar, September 14, 2008

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