Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in central Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday morning, scaling its walls and setting it on fire in protest against the planned burning of a copy of the Koran in .Footage shows demonstrators waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr before they climbed over the fence and entered the embassy to set it alight.Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom on Thursday condemned the storming of the embassy as 'totally unacceptable' while adding all staff in Baghdad were safe. 'It is clear that the Iraqi authorities have seriously failed in their responsibility to protect diplomatic missions and personnel,' a furious Billstrom said.
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