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Two Iraqi Baathists detained for 1991 Shiite massacre
KARBALA, Iraq - Police have arrested two former Baath party members accused of killing 43 Iraqi Shiites during the 1991 revolt against deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, a police source said on Thursday. "Adnan Nassar and Kazem al-Ukaili, accused of killing 43 inhabitants of Karbala during the Shiite uprising, were arrested by police," said General Abbas Fadel al-Hassani, head of the force in this city 110 kilometers south of Baghdad.
"The two men who had fled Iraq have admitted the crimes," he added.
| Thought they'd forgotten about you two, eh? |
Ukaili said that after Saddam's fall in April 2003, "relatives of the victims discovered reports written by these two people about crimes they had committed in the Baath party headquarters in Karbala."
"Nassar is accused of murdering 20 people and Ukaili of 23 others."
Meanwhile, a local government source near Nassiriyah, also in southern Iraq, said police had arrested the brother of the former Baath party chief of Diyala province -- north of Baghdad -- along with three other suspects. "Police arrested Anwar Abdel Karim al-Saadun in Al-Dabitiyah, south of Nassiriyah," he said, adding that Saddun was a low-ranking Baath party member. His brother, Abdel Baqi Abdel Karim, is on the US list of 55 most-wanted former regime figures and is still on the run.
| "You'll be cutting a deal to spring me, right bro'? Bro'? Brother? ... |
Posted by: Steve White 2005-06-03 |
