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Published on Jun 23, 2014
CNN's Ivan Watson interviews Iraq's fugitive vice president, Tariq al Hashemi, who fled Iraq to Turkey in 2012.
Tariq al-Hashimi (Arabic: طارق الهاشمي Țāriq al-Hāshamī; born 1942)[2] is an Iraqi politician who served as the general secretary of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) until May 2009. Along with Adil Abdul-Mahdi, he served as the Vice President of Iraq in the government formed after the December 2005 elections for five years. He has been serving as the Vice President (along with Khodair al-Khozaei) since 2011. As a Sunni, he took the place of fellow Sunni politician Ghazi al-Yawar. In December 2011, Hashimi fled to Iraqi Kurdistan to avoid arrest on murder charges. The Central Criminal Court of Iraq convicted him and sentenced him in absentia to death on 9 September 2012.[3][4] As of April 2012, Hashimi is living in Ankara, Turkey, with the assurance that he will not be extradited.
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