U.K. expels 11; Iraq 10
I NZPA-Reuter London Britain’s stormy relations with Iraq have taken a sharp turn for the worse after the British Government ordered 11 Iraqis out of the country and Bagdad retaliated by expelling 10 Britsons from Iraq. The Iraqi reprisal expulsion order halved Brit-]' ain’s diplomatic strength.
The Iraqis ordered out of; Britain seven diplomats' and four other officials or! businessmen — were ex-1 pelled for security reasons. | The Foreign Office iden-l tilled some of them as in-; telligence officers, and! linked the mass expulsion, with some recent terrorist " acts against Arabs in Lon- : don. The expelled Britons are i
; eight diplomats and two ' British Airways officials. I Britain is still angry with | Iraq and awaiting an apoloI gy for the beating of a Brit- | ish diplomat, Mr Richard I Drew, at a police station in ] (Bagdad on May 29. j Iraqi officials here have said that before that incident the Iraqi commercial counsellor in London had been beaten up at a police station. |
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