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LONDON — After months of smoldering controversy, London Mayor Boris Johnson, above, handed over to Scotland Yard a leather cigar case belonging to Iraq’s former deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, scavenged by the mayor from the rubble-strewn floor of a Baghdad villa shortly after the war began in Iraq.
Johnson was defiant Tuesday, accusing his political opponents of launching a “time- wastingly idiotic” probe into his possession of the case, which is considered an Iraqi cultural treasure.
Johnson, a former journalist who took office in May after defeating former Mayor Ken Livingstone, not only never made a secret of his possession of the cigar case but wrote a column in 2003 after deciding to “trouser” the item at the ravaged villa.
