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| Iraq |
| MP accuses 'sectarianists, murderers' of blowing up his family house |
| 2008-07-22 |
| (VOI) -- The leader of the Iraqi Umma Party Mathal al-Alousi on Monday accused whom he described as "sectarianists and murderers" of detonating his Baghdad-based family house earlier today. "Sectarianists, killers and other groups were provoked by our project to return displaced persons, prompting them to blow up the house of the family in al-Jame'a neighborhood, western Baghdad," MP Alousi said in statements to the press, according to a correspondent for Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI). The parliamentarians did not name the so-called "sectarianists and murderers." Earlier today, unidentified gunmen detonated the house of the mother of independent MP Alousi in a western Baghdad neighborhood, causing the house, which was empty at the time of the blast, to collapse, a police source said. Last week, MP Alousi led a demonstration demanding the return of hundreds of families, who have been displaced from their original places in Baghdad's western neighborhoods of al-Adl and al-Jame'a. |
| Posted by:Fred |