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Kurdish Islamic Leader 'Ali Bapir' Ready
to Face "Spy" Committee - Media
monitor
3.10.2006
Press from 3.October.2006
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Islamic Leader Ready to Face "Spy" Committee
(Awene)
Ali Bapir, the leader of the Kurdistan Islamic
Group, has said he is ready to go before a committee
set up by Kurdish regional president Massoud Barzani
that will investigate allegations that certain
Kurdish politicians spied for the Baath regime
during the Nineties.
Bapir’s offer follows the publication of lists of
names in the Awene and Halwati newspapers.
(Awene is a
Sulaimaniyah-based independent newspaper issued
weekly by Awene Company.)
Allawi Denies Kurdish Separist Intent
(Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed)
Former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi has said the
regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan is not
pursuing a separatist path, and said recent comment
on the subject was inaccurate.
His remarks followed an exchange in which Iraqi oil
minister, Hussein al-Shahristani said his ministry
had not been made aware of oil contracts signed by
the Kurdistan government.
The region’s prime minister, Nechiravan Barzani,
retorted that Kurdistan would consider “other
options” if central government did not behave
according to the Iraqi constitution.
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed
is an independent daily paper.)
State of Emergency Prolonged
(Asharq al-Awsat)
The Iraqi parliament has extended the state of
emergency for another month, allowing it to impose
curfews and make arrests with court approval.
Members of parliament differ on the merits of this
legislation, with Shia member Abdulkarim al-Enzi,
for example, arguing that the current situation
require the state of emergency to continue.
Husain al-Falluji, another member of parliament,
said the government must guarantee that state
institutions perform properly, and urged officials
to respect the rights of people arrested under the
emergency legislation.
(London-based
Asharq al-Awsat, a pro-Saudi independent paper, is
issued daily.)
Insurgents Find New Ways to Kill
(Azzaman)
Four people have been killed and seven injured after
a bomb went off in an apartment in Baghdad’s Batawin
neighbourhood.
The blast seemed to be part of a rising trend in
which people rent flats and leave bombs behind to
kill the next tenants. In a separate incident, a
suicide bomber blew himself up among a queue of
people at a bakery in the capital’s Sadum Street.
Several civilians were killed or injured.
(London-based
Azzaman is issued daily by Saad al-Bazaz.)
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