Iraq blamed Israel and the United States after dissidents temporarily took over Iraq’s embassy in Germany. “Armed mercenaries of the American and Zionist intelligence services attacked our embassy in Berlin,” the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said Tuesday in a statement. Several members of an Iraqi dissident group called the Democratic Iraqi Opposition of Germany were taken into custody when German police stormed the embassy after the group had held employees hostage inside the building for several hours.
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