Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Sadrists accuse U.S. troops of killing a senior Sadrist officer
Security, Politics
A spokesman for radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al -Sadr's bloc accused U.S. forces of killing a senior Sadrist official near Najaf. The U.S. military said Iraqi army troops with U.S. advisers raided the home of a man implicated in a bomb attack on a police chief in October. A U.S. statement said a U.S. soldier shot the man dead after seeing him point his rifle at an Iraqi soldier during the raid.
Nassar al-Rubaei, head of the Sadrist bloc in parliament, accused "occupation forces" of storming the home of Saheb al- Amiri at dawn and killing him in front of this family. "We call on the government to launch an investigation," Rubaei told a news conference in Baghdad. U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver said the raid was ordered and planned by Iraqi authorities.
