Qatar Rejects Request by Iraq for Return of Fugitive Iraqi Vice President Qatar on Tuesday rejected Iraq's request to hand over the fugitive Iraqi vice president to face terrorism charges in Baghdad. Iraq asked Qatar on Monday to extradite the vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, the top Sunni official in its Shiite-dominated government. The Iraqi authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in December, accusing him of running an anti-Shiite death squad. Mr. Hashimi, who denies the charges, has since been living in the semiautonomous Kurdish region, out of the government's reach. Qatar's minister of state for international cooperation, Khaled al-Attiyah, said Tuesday that Qatar would not hand Mr. Hashimi over to Baghdad because such a move would be contrary to diplomatic protocol. "There is no court verdict against him," Mr. Attiyah said. He came to Qatar from Iraq as the vice president of Iraq and he still holds the title and has immunity that prevents us from doing such a thing.