'Iraqi VP seeks asylum in Jordan'
According to informed sources in the northeastern city of Sulaymaniyeh in Iraq's Kurdistan region, Hashemi has asked Jordan's King Abdullah II to grant him asylum in the country.

The Jordanian government has taken the matter into consideration, the sources added.
Iraqi officials have accused Vice President Hashemi of involvement in terrorist attacks in the country over the past years, including a November 2011 car bombing in Baghdad that apparently targeted Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
On November 28, 2011, security officials said two people were killed in a car bombing at an Iraqi parliament parking lot inside Baghdad's Green Zone.
Iraqi officials said that the target of the bombing was Parliament Speaker Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujayfi. However, on December 3, 2011, Maliki revealed that he had been the target of the bombing.
On December 19, 2011, Iraq's Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant for Hashemi after three of his bodyguards made confessions of taking orders from him to carry out the terrorist attacks. Hashemi later fled to the Kurdistan region.
The Iraqi vice president has called for the referral of his case to the Kurdistan region, but Iraq's judiciary has rejected his request.
Maliki has demanded that President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani hand Hashemi over to the Iraqi judiciary.
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The Jordanian government has taken the matter into consideration, the sources added.
Iraqi officials have accused Vice President Hashemi of involvement in terrorist attacks in the country over the past years, including a November 2011 car bombing in Baghdad that apparently targeted Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
On November 28, 2011, security officials said two people were killed in a car bombing at an Iraqi parliament parking lot inside Baghdad's Green Zone.
Iraqi officials said that the target of the bombing was Parliament Speaker Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujayfi. However, on December 3, 2011, Maliki revealed that he had been the target of the bombing.
On December 19, 2011, Iraq's Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant for Hashemi after three of his bodyguards made confessions of taking orders from him to carry out the terrorist attacks. Hashemi later fled to the Kurdistan region.
The Iraqi vice president has called for the referral of his case to the Kurdistan region, but Iraq's judiciary has rejected his request.
Maliki has demanded that President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani hand Hashemi over to the Iraqi judiciary.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/219271.html