Iraqi Finance Minister: Maliki's government live on crises
12/21/2012 Now - agencies 5:14:43 AM
Accused Iraqi Finance Minister, Rafie al-Issawi, force for the 'militia' kidnapped by members of his crew loaded the prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, personally responsible for their safety.
The accusations came Finance Minister to the Prime Minister, hours after the departure of President Jalal Talabani Baghdad to Germany for treatment after suffering a stroke. The Talabani, aged 79 years, a unifying element of the various political forces to his ability to rise above political divisions and to mediate between the political forces and ethnic and religious groups.
Issawi was launched accusations at a press conference held together with Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi, and the Deputy Prime Minister, Saleh al-Mutlaq, who belong to the list of 'Iraq' Sunni-dominated. Mutlaq had the face of harsh criticism of the owners in the last year, accusing him of dictatorial causing a political crisis that lasted several months.
Issawi called the Iraqi parliament to withdraw confidence from the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated.
It is expected to fuel the tensions that event already raging in the Iraqi political scene since the end of last year, when an arrest warrant was issued against Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a Issawi allies in the Iraqi List, and also belongs to the Sunni sect.
The letters and increasing political tensions these days in preparation for the local elections in April / May of next year.
He accused al-Issawi the Maliki government, which holds the post of finance minister two years ago, as 'do not respect the institutions of the state and sovereignty are not able to live without a crisis'.
In the time in which he proposed Issawi that the detention of his bodyguards and his crew had carried out the militia and not the state, but at the same time said that the Prime Minister note of this action against members of his office and protect it.
Issawi asked 'Do you want me Maliki can not believe that he did not know what had happened? It meant work was carried out with premeditation '.
The government security official said on condition of anonymity 'because it is not licensed for Bouh this information', told The Associated Press, The elements of the Ministry of the Interior is arrested by members of the protection Issawi Thursday as part of the campaign against terrorism and some of them have been released.
It is worth mentioning that the individuals to protect the former vice president, Tareq al-Hashemi, have been arrested at this time last year, and a few days after their arrest, a warrant was issued for his arrest on charges of organizing the assassination, a charge he denied entirely.
Hashemi was forced at the time to stay in the hospitality President Talabani in the Kurdistan region but moved to Turkey, where he now resides. The Iraqi court convicted al-Hashemi in absentia and sentenced him to death several times on charges related to terrorism and the organization of detention operations.
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