Iraq votes to change flag
Published:Wednesday | January 23, 2008 | 11:02 AM
The Iraqi parliament has voted to change the country’s flag.
The three stars on the flag said to represent Saddam Husseins’s Baath Party, are to be removed to address the concerns of Iraqi Kurds.
The flag was also changed in 2004 when a line of script, allegedly in Saddam Husseins handwriting was changed to Kufic script.
The new flag retains the three colours of the old, red, white and black.
The stars that represented the ideology of the Baath party, unity, freedom and socialism will be removed.