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| Iraq |
| Former int. chief reveals Iranian handover deal |
| 2008-07-03 |
| (VOI) – Iraq's former intelligence chief on Wednesday revealed during a court session on the 1991 al-Intifada al-Shaabaniya case an alleged 1990 Iranian intelligence proposal to hand over Iraqi opposition leaders in return for leaders of the Iranian Mujahideen Khalq (People's Mujahideen) opposition group. "In October 1990, the then Iranian intelligence deputy chief visited Iraq and personally met me to offer the proposal on behalf of the Iranian government," Sabaawi Ibrahim al-Hassan said after meeting separately with Judge Mohammed Araibi al-Khalifa. According to al-Hassan, who is also a half-brother of former President Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi government rejected the proposal on "religious and tribal grounds." Established in 1965, the organization is based in Camp Ashraf near al-Adheem area, Diala province (57km northeast of Baghdad), and close to the Iraqi-Iranian borders. Earlier today, the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court, headed by Justice al-Khalifa, resumed sessions on the 1991 al-Intifada al-Shaabaniya case. The 1991 incidents, known in Arabic as the al-Intifada al-Shaabaniya, or the Shaaban uprising, were a series of rebellions in southern and northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War. The revolts in the predominantly Shiite cities of Basra and al-Nassiriya broke out in March 1991, sparked by demoralized Iraqi army troops returning from Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War. Another uprising in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq broke out shortly thereafter. All of the 15 defendants in the case, who are former Iraqi regime officials, attended the session. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I'll see your 25 terrorist and raise you 5 freedom fighters and a brigand. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-03 10:00 |