1,500 Baathists killed in south
Abdulhussein Ghazal
Assassinating former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party is going on unabated particularly in southern Iraq, according to an independent group monitoring human rights in Iraq. "The number of Baathists killed since the start of 2006 has reached 1,556 people and none of the cases has been investigated," the group, Freedom Monitoring Commission, said in a statement faxed to Azzaman. It said the killings took place in southern Iraq, and particularly in the cities of Nasiriya, Diwaniya, Amara, Basra, Samawa, Kut, Hilla, Karbala, Najafa and Hindiya...
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Assassinating former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party is going on unabated particularly in southern Iraq, according to an independent group monitoring human rights in Iraq. "The number of Baathists killed since the start of 2006 has reached 1,556 people and none of the cases has been investigated," the group, Freedom Monitoring Commission, said in a statement faxed to Azzaman. It said the killings took place in southern Iraq, and particularly in the cities of Nasiriya, Diwaniya, Amara, Basra, Samawa, Kut, Hilla, Karbala, Najafa and Hindiya...
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Iraqi vice president Tareq al-Hashimi was in Doha, capital of Qatar yesterday, for talks with the Emir Hamad bin Khalifa, about the Iraqi situation. Hashimi told al-Hayat that one of this big concerns is the intervention of various countries, which he did not name, in the internal affairs of Iraq, describing this intervention as "targeting the Arab and Islamic identity of Iraq". It is particularly noteworthy that this is an Iraqi vice-president talking publicly with a Gulf-state leader about a threat to the Arab identity of Iraq, clearly referring to Iran, in the immediate aftermath of the Saddam sentencing. (Iran enthusiastically supported the death sentence for Saddam)...
The main Sunni Arab bloc in Iraq's parliament threatened today to pull out of the unity government and take up arms if the Shiite-dominated government continued to ignore its calls for the dismantling of militias. Salim Abdallah, spokesman for the National Concord Front, a bloc of three Sunni parties holding 44 seats in parliament, told Agence France-Presse his group had delivered a message to the government two weeks ago about dissolving the militias. 'If they do not respond to this request, we may abandon the political process and have no other choice but to take up arms,' he said...
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