 A handful of protesters in Sweden kicked and partially destroyed a book, they said, was the Quran, Islam's holy book, outside the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm on July 20. But they did not burn it as they had threatened to, Reuters witnesses said. 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 expected burning. Anti-Islam protesters, one of whom is an Iraqi immigrant to Sweden that burned the Quran outside a Stockholm mosque in June, had applied for and received permission from Swedish police to burn the Quran outside the Iraqi Embassy on Thursday. Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador on Thursday in protest. An Iraqi government statement said Baghdad had also recalled its charged affair in Sweden, an Iraq state news agency reported that Iraq had suspended the working permit of Sweden's Ericsson on Iraqi soil.