Iraqi lawmakers unused to criticism fighting back
Politicians taking legal action to rein in journalists
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 5:30 a.m.
Warid Badr Salim’s front-page satire in a recent edition of the newspaper al-Mada compared Iraq’s parliament to wolves stalking sheep — the Iraqi people — and cheekily suggested that its members need the diplomatic passports they’ve awarded themselves just to leave Baghdad’s fortresslike Green Zone.
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