BAGHDAD (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iraq has formally asked authorities in northern Kurdish region to hand over Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and 12 of his entourage to face charges of running death squads, an Iraqi official said on Sunday.
Iraq government issued an arrest warrant for the politician in mid-December.
The move against Hashemi and Maliki's request to parliament to remove Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq, followed a few days later by a series of bombings in mostly Shia areas of Baghdad that killed at least 72 people, revived fears of sectarian strife in the OPEC oil producer.
"We sent an official request a day ago to the Interior Ministry and (security forces) of the Kurdistan region asking them to hand over al-Hashemi with twelve other suspects to judicial authorities in Baghdad," Lieutenant-General Hussein Kamal, Iraq's deputy interior minister, told Reuters.
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8 January 2012 - 20:30
News ID: 289569
Iraq has formally asked authorities in northern Kurdish region to hand over Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and 12 of his entourage to face charges of running death squads, an Iraqi official said on Sunday.
