Iraqi Officials Express Dismay Over Report Of US Spying

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Iraqi leaders expressed incredulity and disappointment Friday over a report that U.S. officials had spied on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top Iraqi leaders.

"If it is true, it reflects that there is no trust and it reflects also that the institutions in the United States are used to spying on their friends and their enemies in the same way," Ali al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for the Iraqi government, said in a statement. "We will ask for an explanation."