REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – A group of nationals from tiny Iceland slammed their government’s support of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, apologizing to Iraqis in a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Friday.

The advertisement, paid for with donations from more than 4,000 citizens which constitutes about 1.4 percent of the population, demanded “that Iceland be immediately removed from the list of invaders in the ‘coalition of the willing.”’

“We apologies to the Iraqi people for the Icelandic ministers’ support for the invasion of Iraq,” the ad said.

Four out of five Icelanders want their country off the list, according to a Gallup opinion poll published earlier this month.
Full Article: nytimes.com

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