Agents of Saddam targeted Japanese diplomats: Iraqi official

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks to a Kyodo News reporter in Baghdad on Dec. 4 about the slaying of two Japanese diplomats in northern Iraq on Nov. 29. He said the killings were carried out by the intelligence organ of deposed President Saddam Hussein.

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