It comes with a fancy tax-free salary, a mansion in central Brussels, an armour-plated limousine and a squad of bodyguards.

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Mr Hashemi is accused of running a death squad with his bodyguards which is alleged to have carried out a campaign of political assassinations and bombings at the height of Iraq's insurgency.

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