News about Anwar Gargash

On a nearby avenue after one group of protesters managed to penetrate the embassy yesterday, police blocked the street outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad with concrete blocks today. They managed to stay inside for 15 minutes before removing when security forces arrived. The protest was also staged by supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqta Sadr, whose party is not part of the current Iraqi government but still has a huge following. Salwan Momika, 37, an Iraqi civilian living in Sweden, stomped on the Islamic holy book and set several pages ablaze in front of the capital's largest mosque. Police in Sweden had given him a license in accordance with free expression rights, but authorities later said they had opened an investigation into 'agitation.'