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Iraq fugitive VP charged with murdering six judges
Source: Reuters
Iraq fugitive VP charged with murdering six judges
BAGHDAD | Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:44am EDT
(Reuters) - Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and some of his bodyguards have been charged with murdering six judges and a series of other killings, a judiciary spokesman said on Monday.
Hashemi, one of Iraq's top Sunni Muslim politicians, fled Baghdad in December when the Shi'ite-led central government issued an arrest warrant for him, accusing him of running death squads.
He is now in Istanbul in Turkey and is not expected to attend the trial when it begins on Thursday.
Iraq's delicately-balanced ruling coalition of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds began to strain in December after U.S. troops left and the government tried to remove Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq and made the accusations against Hashemi.
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BAGHDAD | Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:44am EDT
(Reuters) - Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and some of his bodyguards have been charged with murdering six judges and a series of other killings, a judiciary spokesman said on Monday.
Hashemi, one of Iraq's top Sunni Muslim politicians, fled Baghdad in December when the Shi'ite-led central government issued an arrest warrant for him, accusing him of running death squads.
He is now in Istanbul in Turkey and is not expected to attend the trial when it begins on Thursday.
Iraq's delicately-balanced ruling coalition of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds began to strain in December after U.S. troops left and the government tried to remove Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq and made the accusations against Hashemi.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/30/us-iraq-trial-idUSBRE83T0RI20120430
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