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By Jane Arraf in Middle East on May 8th, 2012
Hashemi is accused of "guiding and financing terrorist attacks" during Iraq's two-year-long civil war [Photo: Reuters]

Iraq’s long-running and lethal political drama spilled out beyond its borders Tuesday with an Interpol notice calling for the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi.

The global organisation said it was acting on the request of the Iraqi government in issuing an alert for al-Hashemi “on suspicion of guiding and financing terrorist attacks” in Iraq. 

“If you have any information please contact your local or national police,” reads the Interpol listing for him on its ‘wanted persons’ list.

But Hashemi is no ordinary wanted man.

He has become a symbol of Sunni dispossession, a window into Iraq’s violent political culture and lately, a useful pawn in regional politics.  

By Jane Arraf in Middle East on December 19th, 2011
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By Jane Arraf in Middle East on October 9th, 2011
Saad Lostan, well-known from Arabic-lanugage film and TV

"Are you a student?" I asked a Syrian man near the border with Jordan, where thousands have fled to escape the escape the violence in their home country.

"I’m an actor,” he said.

I didn’t recognize him but many Arab film-goers would. It was Saad Lostan - the star of "After the Rain" and TV series "My Heart is With You" - waiting for Jordanian authorities to let him begin life in exile.

Lostan told me he'd left his apartment in Damascus after being in hiding for more than a month. He had helped organize anti-government demonstrations in the Syrian capital and said secret police had twice raided his home and sent word that they were looking for him.

"I don’t think I'm very dangerous," he said with a weary smile.

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Jane Arraf
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Jane Arraf has covered the Middle East, Europe, the U.S. , Turkey and Canada for two decades. Posted in Baghdad before, during and after the 2003 war, she has covered from the front lines most of the major events in Iraq's recent history.

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