Saturday, March 17, 2007
Leader of Kurdish Islamic Movement dies
Politics
(VOI) – Mullah Ali Abdul-Aziz, the supreme leader of the Kurdish Islamic Movement, passed away in London on Saturday at the age of 73, a movement official said. "Mullah Ali died of a prostrate disease," Kamel al-Haj Ali, a member of the political bureau of the movement in Iraq's Kurdistan region, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"The movement has started preparations to bring his body to the homeland," the movement official said. The Kurdish Islamic Movement was founded in 1978 and proclaimed itself in 1984 under the assumed name Islamic League. Mullah Ali Abdul-Aziz became supreme leader of the movement in May 1999, succeeding the late Sheikh Othman Abdul-Aziz. The movement has no representatives in the Iraqi or Kurdish parliaments.
Labels: Kurdish Islamic Movement, Mullah Ali Abdul-Aziz
