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Iraq's Sunni VP Tareq al-Hashimi involved
in 150 armed operations in Iraq
17.2.2012
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Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi
has been hiding in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan
region since December 2011. Photo: AP
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February
17, 2012
BAGHDAD, — Iraq’s Sunni Vice President
Tareq al-Hashimi is involved in about 150 armed
operations in Iraq, including car bombs,
assassinations, and attacks on Iranian visitors to
Shiite religious shrines, Iraqi Jurisdiction Council
said Thursday.
The new charges come as Mr Hashimi is still in
hiding from the authorities on grounds that the
charges against him are political and courts in
Baghdad are not independent.
The high court in Baghdad issued an arrest warrant
against Hashimi in December on terror charges and
for maintaining death squads. Al-Hashimi has
rejected the charges and has called for his trial to
be held in Kurdistan Region or the mainly Sunni
province of Kirkuk in the north.
“The investigative commission probing into Tareq al-Hashimi’s
case has established the involvement of al-Hashimi’s
guards in 150 armed operations under the guidance of
Hashimi himself” said spokesman for the Council,
Abdul Sattar al-Bayraqdar in a press conference held
in Baghdad.
He said the guards of al-Hahismi, who are currently
in detention of the Baghdad authorities, have
admitted to “assassinating high-ranking security
officers,www.ekurd.net
doctors, and Iranian visitors, in addition to
carrying out car bomb attacks… placing IEDs that
targeted army and police patrols and government
officials”
Among the attacks allegedly carried out by al-Hashimi’s
death squads is the suicide attack in 2010 near
Baghdad’s al-A’ima bridge in al-Aadhamiyah area
which targeted Shiite mourners during the al-Imam
al-Kadhim ceremonies. And the killing of al-Sharqiyah
TV representative Walid Ja’az in 2006.
Al-Bayraqdar called on the families of the victims
to head to courts to file law suits against al-Hashimi.
By Yazn al-Shamari
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