The Shia dominated government of Iraq has issued an arrest warrant for the Sunni Vice President,Tariq al-Hashemi, charging him with running a hit squad that killed government officials. CBS News: Acting just a day after American forces completed their withdrawal, the government issued an arrest warrant Monday for Tariq al-Hashemi, the country's highest-ranking Sunni official. The step risks tearing at the same sectarian fault lines that pushed Iraq to the edge of civil war just a few years ago - a prospect that is all the more dire with no U.S. forces on the ground. Responding to the accusations, al-Hashemi told a televised news conference Tuesday that he has not committed any "sin" against Iraq and described the charges as "fabricated." He accused the Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, of being behind a plot to smear him and declared that efforts at national reconciliation had been blown apart. "I'm shocked by all these things," al-Hashemi told reporters in the northern city of...(Read Full Post)