Iranian missiles that struck northern Iraq earlier this week have laid to waste the sprawling mansion belonging to an Iraqi Kurdish oil tycoon near a U.S. consulate complex in the Iraqi city of Irbil
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) Once a lavish mansion, the sprawling home of an Iraqi Kurdish oil tycoon was laid to waste in a barrage of missiles that struck near a U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil earlier this week.
When he raises his index finger and frowns, Iraq holds its breath: the mercurial Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has yet again emerged as kingmaker following last month's parliamentary polls.