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December 18, 2011

Arrest Warrant Issued for Iraqi Vice-President for Terrorism Accusations

An arrest warrant was issued against Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi late Saturday for being the mastermind of the recent bombing targeting the parliament, commander of Baghdad police operations said.

"Iraq's supreme court has issued the arrest warrant for Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi for participating in terrorist operations and cooperating with the Takfiri groups," Brigadier General Qassem Ata told reporters on Sunday.

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Hashemi is accused of masterminding the car bombing which took place on November 28 and injured a number of Iraqi parliamentarians, he added.

According to the Iraqi government, evidence pointed at al-Hashimi's embroilment in the parliament blast incident after deriving confessions from four arrested Islamic Party members.

An official from the interior ministry announced on Saturday on al-Iraqiya tv channel that they will show confessions indicating the involvement of a higher rank official in terrorist activities.

Hashimi was the head of the Islamic Party, a political party representative of the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq, in 2004, but in 2009 he announced that he is no longer a member of the party.

Instead, he created the Tajdeed movement, which is considered to be one of the political parties component of the secular Iraqiya block.
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Sunday, 18 December 2011

Arrest warrant issued for Iraqi first vice-president

An Iraqi official has confirmed that an arrest warrant has been issued for Iraq’s First Vice-President, Tareq Al-Hashemi, who is charged with involvement in terrorist operations.

The commander of Baghdad’s military operations, Major General Qasem Ataa, in an interview with Fars news agency’s correspondent in Baghdad on Sunday, said that the Iraqi Supreme Court has issued an arrest warrant for the Iraqi first vice-president, who is accused of involvement in terrorist operations.

A while ago, a suicide bomber detonated explosives in front of the Iraqi Parliament’s gate, as a result of which one person was killed and four lawmakers were wounded.

According to a number of news sources, this suicide bomber intended to attack the Iraqi Premier, Nouri Al-Maleki, but failed to do so.

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