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Daqduq adds a new political crisis
On: Sun 12/18/2011 8:49
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across a number of American politicians expressed outrage on Tuesday after the first delivery of U.S. prisoners of Baghdad, is believed to be active in the Lebanese Hezbollah, suspected of involvement in the process of killing five U.S. soldiers in 2007.
It was Ali Musa Daqduq the U.S. military announced his arrest in July 2007 in southern Iraq and handed over to Iraqi forces by the end of the American withdrawal end of this month, last prisoner of the Americans.
has called for a number of Republicans to move Daqduq from Iraq to Guantanamo Bay U.S. in Cuba, who promised U.S. President Barack Obama close it. Has raised a report handed over to Iraqi outrage.
The spokesman said National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor yesterday, Friday, "We will continue to discuss and put with the Iraqis," explaining that "the transfer on Friday morning to the Iraqi prison."
He added, "We take this file seriously, so we sought to assurances he would be tried for his crimes, and we got on these assertions. "
He Vitor "Our work on this issue at the highest levels of governments the U.S. and Iraqi forces and we continue to discuss the Iraqis about the best way to trial."
It seems that U.S. President Barack Obama discussed the issue of Daqduq with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki during their meeting at the White House last week.
and saw four members of the U.S. Senate that the delivery of Daqduq to the Iraqis, "sends a negative signal to our allies and our enemies in the region."
confirmed these parliamentarians, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former candidate for the presidential election, John McCain " delivery of Ali Musa Daqduq terrorist Hezbollah Lebanese (...) to the Iraqi government rather than to allocate it to a U.S. military court to hold him accountable for his crimes, scandal. "
and added "We are very concerned for the idea that Daqduq days will not be held accountable to his involvement in the killing of U.S. citizens and will be released by the Iraqis for political reasons and will resume after the fighting against the United States and our friends. "
For his part, McCain said that "the real test on Bdkaddoq not whether the United States was violating the security agreement with Iraq by keeping him in prison out of the country."
and "The real test is whether the United States can exert its influence effectively with the Iraqi government to make sure that the accused of killing Americans will answer for his crimes in the U.S. legal system. "
The White House spokesman Jay Carney confirmed Friday that the United States studied with Baghdad, "a large number of possibilities including accordance with the laws the U.S. and Iraq to refer Daqduq to trial before a military court. "
"We have acted this way because we believe it is the fastest way to transmit it in court. And we continue our discussions on this issue with the Iraqis," although "he was taken this morning (the first of yesterday) to the Iraqi prison. "
said a senior U.S. official on condition of anonymity told AFP that "the Iraqi government rejected any talk of deportation to Guantanamo."
The United States asserts that Daqduq activist in the Lebanese Hezbollah, arrived in Iraq to train the rebels the help of the Quds Force, a unit elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
During a raid in January 2007 in Karbala south of Baghdad, gunmen killed an American soldier and kidnapped four others have to kill them later, in the process of organization attributed the U.S. Army Corps of Jerusalem.
Following an agreement signed in 2008 between Washington and Baghdad end the U.S. presence in Iraq, was considered Daqduq detained by the Iraqi government, however, that U.S. soldiers took over guard duties.
The transfer of Americans will be a problem with them Daqduq judicial large on one side and weaken the new relations that Washington wants to establish with the Iraqis. Carney stressed that the United States received from the Iraqis, "guarantees that it will pursue the crimes."
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