Iraq warns neighbours that violence could spread

Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari today urged Iraq’s neighbours to prevent “terrorists and killers” from crossing into his country and warned that the violence in Iraq could spill across its borders into other nations.

Zebari’s comments came during the opening of a day long conference that brought to Baghdad officials from all of Iraq’s neighbours and other Mideast countries, as well as representatives from the UN and the Group of Eight industrialised nations.