Biden’s Middle East tour will not include Iraq – spokesman

BAGHDAD /Iraqi News U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden’s Middle East tour will not include Iraq, spokesman for the Iraqi government said on Wednesday. “There is no arrangement for Biden’s visit to Iraq,” Ali al-Dabbagh told Iraqi News, noting that the U.S. government did not ask Iraq to prepare for such a visit. Biden will make a five-day tour in the Middle East, which will take him to the Palestinian territories and Jordan. SH (P) 1