No Jew in Iraq is now under sentence of death, a spokesman for the State Department said today on the basis of a communication from U.S. Ambassador Edward Crocker in Bagdad. The Department is still checking the situation of Jews in Iraq, the spokesman said.
(In London, Iraqi charge d’affaires A.M. Khederi, replying to a protest received from the Agudas Israel, denied that seven Iraqi Jews had been executed on charges of Zionist activity, as was reported. Pointing out that death sentences could be carried out only after a court martial, he said 100,000 Jews are presently living at peace in Iraq.)
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