Head of Arab League arrives in Iraq

Amr Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League, arrived in Baghdad today on his first visit to Iraq since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein to discuss plans for an Iraqi reconciliation conference.

Moussa is disliked by many Iraqi Shiite Muslims and Kurds for his perceived refusal to act against Saddam Hussein’s persecution of both groups while the dictator was in power.