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Originally Posted by Incognitas

Mayor of London investigated over Iraq cigar case "war crime"


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4204553.ece

And so it starts..It does seem a stretch if Labour are behind this..

There was an article on this on the BBC site the other day

"As I stared at the remains of his home, I saw utter destruction - surely the looters had left nothing of value?" he said.

"And there, just by my toe, protruding from beneath a piece of dusty plywood, was the cigar case. Actually, it was only the bottom half of a cigar case, in thick red leather and coarsely stitched.

"But I immediately saw its importance. If this was the cigar case of Tariq Aziz, think of the scenes it had witnessed."

The mayor, who says he subsequently received a letter from Mr Aziz offering the case as a gift, claims the police only became involved after "Labour stooges" demanded he be prosecuted when they found an article he had written about the case.

Seems a bit of a non-story to me. He picked up a (pretty much) worthless item from a bombed out house that had already been looted. It's hardly an item of great historical/cultural/whatever significance.