An open trial waiting for Saddam Hussein; Alyawer asks for the presence of occupation
Iraq, Politics, 6/16/2004

Two Iraqi civilians were killed in al-Ramadi and other five injured including one police man in clashes between unidentified gunmen and one military patrol for the American occupation forces exposed to missile shelling.

News reports in Karkouk city to the north of Iraq said that one police officer was strongly wounded after he was exposed to the fire of unidentified persons as he was coming back home in the fourth bridge area in the downtown of Karkouk on Monday evening.

In al-Falujja to the west of Baghdad, a leader of one American patrol escorted by a civil defense force and the Iraqi police met with the city's chieftains for the second time since the cease fire enforcement in May.

The representatives of the city called for speedy compensations due to the American military operations and to release the detainees of the city.

On the other hand, the representatives for the Shiite Tribes in southern Iraq said that armed men in Falluja killed 6 Shiite young men they had detained in the fifth of June.

Meantime, officials in the office of the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sader said that the American occupation forces detained Ahmad Rida al-Husseini, a spokesman for al-Sader and official at the municipal council in Karbala. The sources said that the occupation forces broke into the house of al-Husseini on Monday evening and took him to an American base.

Meantime, the Iraqi President Ghazi Ojeil Elyawer said that it is necessary to send a multi- national force to Iraq in order to take part in the security keeping operations, stressing the need that these forces honor the human rights of the Iraqi citizens and these forces not to be from the neighboring states.

In a press conference, Elyawer said that the Interim Iraqi government does not want to have the presence of these force for symbolic or just media campaigning, noting the difficulty of the withdrawal of the occupation forces at the meantime because of the absence of the Iraqi security forces.

On the other hand, the Iraqi minister of the Interior, Fallah al-Naqib, announced that the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will be tried openly under charges of committing killing crimes and destroying the infrastructure of Iraq.

Preparations are underway to form an Iraqi government to try Saddam Hussein who was detained in December near his birthplace, Tikrit, and he is since then held in his being a war prisoner in a place which is not disclosed.

The Iraqi prime minister Eyad Allawi said in a TV interview that the occupation forces will hand over Saddam Hussein to the Iraqi authorities to try him within two weeks. Allawi stressed that his government will receive within two weeks former Iraqi officials held by the occupation forces and their trial will start as soon as possible.

These statements came following the demand raised by the spokeswoman of the ICRC to the occupation forces in Iraq to prove accusations against Saddam Hussein otherwise release him.

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