The UK Foreign Office has said Salem Chalabi, the head...

The UK Foreign Office has said Salem Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi tribunal trying Saddam Hussein, will not be extradited on murder charges while he is in London.
An arrest warrant for Mr Chalabi, 41, was issued last week over the murder of Haithem Fadhil, director general of the Iraqi finance ministry.
A Foreign Office spokesman said Britain does not have an extradition treaty with Iraq and could not help the Baghdad government. He added that it had received no request from the Iraqi interim administration to arrest Mr Chalabi while he was in London. If convicted in Iraq Salem Chalabi - Mr Chalabi's uncle, Ahmad, has also been indicted on counterfeiting charges - would face the death penalty, which was reconstituted by the interim Iraqi government on August 8th.