George Bush apologises to Iraqi PM

Canada News.Net
Tuesday 20th May, 2008

US President George Bush has apologised to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for the desecration of the Islamic holy book Koran by a US soldier stationed in Iraq.

The Al-Iraqiya news channel reported that al-Maliki received an apology letter from the US president on the incident, after a soldier fired a bullet through the Koran.

Meanwhile, in Iraq, an explosion has wounded three companions of the Speaker of Iraq's Council of Representatives, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani.

The blast occurred in an area west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad as al-Mashhadani and his friends were travelling in a convoy.

In the southern city of Basra, an Iraqi police officer was killed in the late hours of Monday in the Ashar area.

Iraqi forces have also detained 15 suspected terrorists and confiscated a large weapons cache in the same city.

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