Sanna: Yemen on April 13 granted political asylum to Iraq's Ambassador to the Arab
League, Mohsen Khalil, in the wake of the collapse of Saddam Hussein's quarter-
century rule in Baghdad.
"Yemen has informed Ambassador Mohsen Khalil, Iraq's permanent Ambassador to the
Arab League in Cairo, of its decision to grant him political asylum," a Foreign
Ministry spokesman said in a statement.
Khalil applied for asylum on April 9, the day US forces entered Central Baghdad,
according to the spokesman.
Khalil was Iraq's Ambassador to Sanaa from 1992 to 1997.
