Iraq PM slams law pardoning mainly Sunni prisoners

2009/05/23 09:56:02 @Reuters: International News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Shi'ite leader vowed on Saturday to amend a law meant to foster sectarian reconciliation by pardoning mostly Sunni prisoners, saying it had led to the release of "terrorists" and corruption suspects. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=X9uj3Kr41FM:Q3VUW1cm8L4:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=X9uj3Kr41FM:Q3VUW1cm8L4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=X9uj3Kr41FM:Q3VUW1cm8L4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=X9uj3Kr41FM:Q3VUW1cm8L4:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=X9uj3Kr41FM:Q3VUW1cm8L4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/X9uj3Kr41FM" height="1" width="1"/
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