Baghdad  - Iraq's national security advisor said Sunday that Baghdad wants to "end the issue" of the People's Mujahedin of Iran group living in the country, a month after President Jalal Talabani said he wanted the group deported.

Muwaffaq al-Rubaie did not explicitly threaten to expel the group, but he demanded that they assist Iraq's security forces.

Iraq's government has been increasing pressure on the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI), the largest Iranian opposition group whose main base is the Ashraf refugee camp, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad.

London, March 22 : Actor Gary Sinise has financed a translated reprint of Seabiscuit: An American Legend, a popular non-fiction book based on horse racing, for kids in Iraq to read.

The ‘Apollo 13’ star collaborated with author Laura Hillenbrand to help in bringing out the Arabic version after they found out that kids in Baghdad had become huge fans of her tale of the iconic thoroughbred race horse, Seabiscuit.

Washington  - Tens of thousands of protestors in Washington and California carried banners and shouted slogans Saturday, calling for an end to the war in Iraq.

The protests marked the sixth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003.

The ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition said more than 10,000 people marched towards the Pentagon and corporations in Virginia such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and KBR, which the demonstrators called "merchants of death."

Forrest Gump star Gary Sinise funded a reprint of the book Seabiscuit in Arabic language after learning that the kids in Baghdad had become big fans of author Laura Hillenbrand tale of a heroic horse after hearing the news that a U. S. colonel had attempted to translate segments for the kids, who all loved it a lot.

Sinise tells WENN, "Laura wanted to get it translated to Arabic because one of the colonels was reading the book and the Iraqi kids started asking him about it, so he contacted her and asked for Arabic translations of the book.

"We made 15,000 copies of Seabiscuit in Arabic and sent it over there."

Sydney  - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that Baghdad reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi who famously hurled his shoes at then-US president George W Bush was lucky to get away with three years' jail.

Al-Maliki, speaking in Canberra during an official visit to Australia, said a longer jail sentence or even execution could have been his punishment.

Baghdad - A suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday, killing a policeman and wounding two tribal chief guards in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, according to a police source.

The attack targeted the house of Sheikh Talib al-Hassnawi al- Issawi, head of Albu-Eissa tribe, west of Falluja city, the source told the Voices of Iraq news agency. The two injured Iraqis were guards of al-Issawi.