Arrest warrant for Iraq Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16256830
An Iraqi judicial committee has issued an arrest warrant for the mainly Shia Arab country’s Sunni Arab Vice-President, Tariq al-Hashemi.
The warrant was issued under anti-terrorism laws, interior ministry spokesman Adel Daham said.
The decision came after arrested bodyguards of Mr Hashemi reportedly accused him of links to terrorism.
The main Sunni political bloc is reported to have said it will boycott the cabinet in response.
State-run television has aired what it says are confessions by alleged terrorists linked to Mr Hashemi.
Maj-Gen Adel Daham told a news conference that confessions by suspects identified as his bodyguards had linked him to killings and attacks on several Iraqi government and security officials, Reuters news agency reports.
Mr Hashemi has been banned from leaving Iraq and is reported to have flown to the semi-autonomous northern enclave of Kurdistan on Sunday night. But the BBC’s Middle East correspondent Jim Muir says he is unlikely to be arrested immediately.
The judicial committee’s move comes the day after US troops withdrew from Iraq.
However the warrant is reported to have been drawn up on Saturday, but its announcement was delayed after the al-Iraqiya parliamentary bloc, which represents most of Iraq’s Sunni Arab community, withdrew from parliament. They have accused the Shia Arab Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, of monopolising power.
Our correspondent says attempts to stave off that crisis – the biggest the country had faced since the government was formed a year ago – appear to have failed, as Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlak has now said al-Iraqiya ministers will suspend their participation in the cabinet.
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so as soon as the americans leave they go after the VP who is sunni..corruption..what a surprise..the whole world runs on corruption..was he not corrupt whilst the americans were there??
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“was he not corrupt whilst the americans were there??” Surely you jest. Do you really expect the U.S. to get something right? I’m sure he served some type of purpose for us and we proped him up. Now that we are gone and don’t need him anymore…who gives a shit. Welcome to the USA Mr. Tariq al-Hashemi.
It was sarcasm dan!
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/12-01-2012/120220-Life_of_Tariq_Aziz_hangs_in_the_balance-0/
Different Tariq:
Aziz health still declining, denied phone call to family on Christmas and New Year’s for first time; children still plead for his release. He does not appear to have long. I remember watching on tv him during the back and forth of the inspections preceding our invasion. No matter how insulting the interviewer he always managed such a perfect politeness. He was an excellent diplomat and did his best to stave off the invasion of his nation by my nation. I do not have an informed enough opinion of the crimes committed by the Hussein government, I am not commenting on Aziz from that standpoint. In any event all prisoners deserve proper medical care and humane treatment by their captors.
It is a sad day when prison inmates show more humanity than those outside the jail walls.
he reminded of the guy who had the poison chalice..he had to say what he was told to say or he and his family were dead..i dont think he really believed in saddam..