Quran desecration, Iraq, foreign minister condemns attack on Swedish embassy

The Swedish embassy in Baghdad was set on fire before dawn during a demonstration on the eve of a new event in Sweden where organizers allegedly plan to burn a new copy of the holy Quran. An Afp correspondent saw smoke rising from the embassy building, in the area where Iraqi police were deployed in riot gear just for the event. Iraq's foreign minister condemned the fire "in the strongest terms" and called on security forces to open an "urgent investigation.""The Iraqi government," reads a note, "has instructed the relevant security services to alert an urgent investigation and take all necessary measures to shed light on the causes of the incident and identify the perpetrators.