BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that he was expelling the Swedish ambassador after that country's government allowed a protest in Stockholm in which a copy of the Quran was desecrated.
The order came after hundreds of young men, many of them supporters of the powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad in the early hours Thursday for the second time in the past few weeks, setting fire to a portion of the entrance hall and inflaming a growing political crisis.