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London mayor fumes over Iraq cigar case probe

San Francisco : CA : USA | about 1 year ago  
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  • London mayor fumes over Iraq cigar case probe
    London mayor fumes over Iraq cigar case probe
    London mayor fumes over Iraq cigar case probe
London mayor fumes over Iraq cigar case probe

London Mayor Boris Johnson poured scorn Tuesday on a "ludicrous" police investigation into how he came into possession of a cigar case belonging to former Iraqi deputy premier Tariq Aziz.

Johnson, who took office last month as the opposition Conservatives' most powerful politician, accused the governing Labour Party of triggering the probe, which he jokingly likened to a "war crime".

The former journalist admitted to having found the red leather cigar case among the bombed-out debris of Aziz's home while visiting Iraq as a reporter in 2003. He wrote about it at the time, and kept it as a trophy of his trip.

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