Security officials foiled an al-Qaida plot that would have put hundreds of its men at critical guard posts around Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, the Iraqi interior minister has told The Associated Press.
Iraq's interior minister has all but dismissed a scandal over a secret prison bunker, saying few of the 170 people said to have been held there were abused and denying he had condoned torture.
Iraq's Interior Minister Bayan Jabor Solagh has launched a fresh attack on Saudi Arabia for what he called its interference in Iraqi affairs, Aljazeera reports.