AN IRAQI exile who used to demonstrate against Saddam’s regime outside the Iraqi Embassy in London was yesterday confirmed as Baghdad’s new envoy to Britain, restoring diplomatic ties 13 years after they were cut. Salah Shaikhly, a British citizen who was stripped of his Iraqi nationality two decades ago and still has no Iraqi passport, was last night the guest of honour at the annual diplomatic corps dinner hosted by Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, for ambassadors and high commissioners to the Court of St James. “I never imagined I would become ambassador,” the 64-year-old British-educated economist told The Times....