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Two Hundred Due to Testify for Anfal Trial - Media
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13.7.2006
Press from 12.July.2006
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Two Hundred Due to Testify for Anfal Trial
(Hawlati)
Two hundred people from Kurdistan are due to give
testimony about the Anfal campaign in the trial
against (former Iraqi leader) Saddam Hussein and his
aids Ali Hassan Majeed and five other deputies,
Chnar Sa'd Abdullah, minister of martyrs and Anfal
affairs in the Kurdistan Regional Government, told
Hawlati.
The Iraqi criminal court announced the trial would
begin on August 21. A source from the court told
Hawlati that the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and
the Kurdistan Democratic Party are due to send some
(Kurdish) Ba'thists who had helped Iraqi army during
the campaign to serve as witnesses against the
accused.
(Hawlati is an
independent newspaper issued weekly by Ranj Printing
House.)
Officials' Disagreements Need to be Resolved
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed)
Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmood Osman said the
deteriorating security situation can be solved only
if disagreements among officials are resolved. He
said the conflicts and disagreements between
officials were the main cause of turmoil on the
Iraqi street. He maintained members of the cabinet
and parliament need to open up to one another in
order to calm the security situation.
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed
is an independent daily paper.)
Sistani Calls on Iraqis to Reject Sectarian
Segregation
(Al-Adala)
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has called on all
Iraqis to reject and confront sectarian conflict. He
encouraged them to raise their awareness about
sectarianism and remain united.
Deputy leader of the Supreme Islamic Council in
Lebanon, sheikh Abdul Ameer Kublani, said he has
contacted Sistani, who condemned armed conflict and
rejected killings that target civilians.
Kublani maintained that Arabs and Muslims,
especially in the neighbouring states, need to stop
terrorist operations in Iraq and support the
national reconciliation plan.
(Al-Adala is
issued daily by the Supreme Council of the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq.)
Iraqi Diplomat Kidnapped
(Al-Iraq al-Yom)
Sources at the Iraqi interior ministry said on
Tuesday that unidentified gunmen have kidnapped the
Iraqi consular to Iran from his house in Baghdad.
The sources said the gunmen raided the house of
consular Wisam Abdullah al-Awadi in the Shia
majority al-Amel neighbourhood and took him to an
unknown destination. Awadi was on vacation to visit
his family. The foreign ministry said that Awadi
worked in the Iraqi consulate in Kermanshah.
(Al-Iraq al-Yom
is a weekly newspaper issued by Isra Shakir.)
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