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Bag’s Take-Away:
It doesn’t look too good for the rule of law when Iraqi police are ducking to avoid shrubbery.
via MSNBC PhotoBlog
(credit:Kamal Akrayi/AFP/Getty Images caption: Kurdish Protesters clash with ant-riot police in front of Kurdistan Parliament building in Erbil, north of Baghdad, Iraq on 08 May 2012. Hundred rallied in front of the Kurdistan parliament against the article by Norwegian Kurdish expatriate writer Halmat Goran published on 02 May in a local magazine Chrpa. The article is said to be offensive to Islam and to Muslims.)
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