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Iraqi Islamic Party rejects the Kurdish
charges of political sabotage
5.6.2007
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June 5, 2007
Baghdad,-- The Iraqi Islamic Party issued a
statement Tuesday afternoon denouncing accusations
by the two major Iraqi Kurdish parties - the
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan (PUK) - claiming that the Islamic
Party was sabotaging the constitutional process in
Iraq.
The two Kurdish parties claimed that the Islamic
Party was harming national unity by joining a new
political alliance including such figureheads as
Adnan al-Dailami, president of the conference of
Sunnis in Iraq, and former Iraqi prime minister Iyad
Allawi.
The statement disclosed by the independent Voices of
Iraq (VOI) agency denied the accusation saying 'We
are working in daylight, and we have nothing to hide
from the Iraqi people, since (the alliance) we are
working towards is open to all Iraqis.'
Kurdish anger at the Islamic party was triggered by
its participation in a meeting convened on April 29
that included political forces deemed hostile to the
present government, as well as representatives from
the Iraqi National Accord (INA), led by Allawi.
The KDP and the PUK claimed the meeting was
organized and sponsored by 'foreign intelligence
services.'
The Islamic Party statement stressed that 'we are
still in the preparatory phase, and no (new) front
was announced on April 29.'
The statement, however did not deny that 'talks
between different political parties and forces
represented in parliament took place, and that such
talks concentrated on the formation of a (new)
political front in Iraq.'
The Islamic Party, founded in 1960 and banned in
Iraq since the 1970s, is known to have originally
evolved from Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt.
Tariq al-Hashimi, the party's secretary general, was
Tuesday visiting Egypt in his capacity as Iraq's
Vice President. This is his first visit to Cairo
since he assumed the post last year.
Hashimi was scheduled to meet President Hosny
Mubarak on Wednesday, where he was expected to seek
Egypt's support in integrating more Sunni factions
in the political process in Iraq.
On Tuesday, following meetings with the Egyptian
Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit and the Arab
League Secretary General Amr Mussa in Cairo, Hashimi
told reporters 'We are in dire need of help and
cooperation to exchange views on how to end the
Iraqi bottleneck.'
Hashimi is also expected to meet in Cairo Sheikh
Mohammed Sayid Tantawi, Rector of al-Azhar Mosque,
and one of the most senior Sunni clerics in the
Islamic world.
Meanwhile in Baghdad, police forces killed Tuesday
morning a female suicide bomber who tried to make
her way into a police cadet school in Shaab district
in the east of the city, VOI reported.
Interior Ministry spokesman Abdel-Karim Khalaf told
VOI that guards outside the cadet school became
suspicious of the woman who refused to stop for
inspection and shot at her.
Nobody else was harmed in the incident, Khalaf said.
In a separate incident, witness reports said Iraqi
police had sealed off a main thoroughfare in central
Baghdad Tuesday afternoon.
Residents of the Karada neighbourhood of Rasafa
district on the eastern bank of the Tigris told VOI
they did not know why the area was cordoned off, but
that traffic was diverted causing a huge traffic jam
in central Baghdad.
DPA
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