Iraqi opposition member confirms Baghdad had liquidated al-Mayahi

An Iraq opposition member on Friday accused the Iraqi intelligence of killing another Iraqi opposition member who was found strangled in the Lebanese city of Tyre, south Lebanon.

Sheikh Muhammad al-Basri, 37 year old, considered the killing of Walid Ibrahim al-Mayahi, 34 year old, as a liquidation operation carried out by officers in the Iraqi intelligence.

On Thursday, the Lebanese police found Ali al-Mayahi, a researcher at Imam al-Sader Islamic culture complex, strangled with signs of strikes on his body caused by an iron bar. The police said that other three Iraqis who were living in the same building disappeared since the body was found.

Al-Basari said that the three Iraqis were intelligence officers who came as refugees, and that workers at the complex gave them support and used to stay with al-Mayahi. Al-Basari added that one of the three men tried to kidnap him and steal his computer which contains files relating to the activities of the Iraqi opposition in Lebanon. When they failed they killed al-Mayahi who informed the police before his killing that the three Iraqis tried to recruit him.

Worthy mentioning that the partisans of Ayatullah Muhammad Sadeq al-Sader, the Iraqi Shiite religious man who was assassinated in Iraq in 1999, established "Tyre" complex five years ago. The complex is trodden by Iraqi Shiite men of religion who oppose the regime of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.