[Asharq al-Aswat] An Iraqi delegation is expected to meet with a Syrian delegation in Turkey later today to put forward evidence linking the recent Baghdad bombings to [Baathist] elements being sheltered by Syria. The Baghdad bombing which took place on 19 August resulted in 95 people being killed, and many more being injured. This meeting comes in the midst of objections raised by the Iraqi Presidency Council regarding the Iraqi government accusing Syria of harboring elements responsible for the attack, as well as the decision by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri a-Maliki to call for an International Tribunal to investigate this attack.
A diplomatic crisis has broken out between Iraq and Syria in the wake of the Baghdad bombing, and both countries recalled their respective ambassadors. The Iraqi ambassador to Syria had previously said that Baathist elements being sheltered by Damascus were responsible for the bombing, and had called on Syria to surrender them to Iraq.