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Article: REP. HASTINGS DENOUNCES IRAQI PARLIAMENT'S CENSURE OF PARLIAMENTARIAN WHO TRAVELED TO ISRAEL TO ATTEND CONFERENCE ON COMBATING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 16, 2008
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Rep. Alcee. L. Hastings, D-Fla. (23rd CD), issued the following news release:
U.S. Representative Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) today denounced a recent vote taken by the Iraqi Parliament suspending legal immunity for Parliamentarian Mithal Alusi and forbidding him from traveling outside of Iraq and attending parliamentary sessions because of his recent trip to Israel to participate in an international counterterrorism conference. In a letter to Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, Representatives Hastings, Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL) and Shelley Berkeley (D-NV) urged the Iraqi Parliament to overturn its discriminatory laws against Israel and pursue diplomacy with its Middle ...