Iraq unsettled over US spy claims

Karachi News.Net
Saturday 6th September, 2008

Iraqi leaders and officials have expressed dismay over a report that US had spied on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top leaders.

An Iraqi Government spokesman has said his government will ask for an explanation, but “if it is true, it reflects that there is no trust and it reflects also that the institutions in the United States are used to spying on their friends and their enemies in the same way."

The reported espionage was first revealed by Washington post writer, Bob Woodward, in his fourth book about the Bush Administration, "The War Within.”

Some Iraqi officials have said the revelation is likely to hinder negotiations toward an agreement that would govern the role of US troops in Iraq.

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