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Irak - Exécutions
sommaires à Bagdad ? -
Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses...
Allawi
shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses
The Sydney Morning Herald 17/07/04
"Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and
executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station,
just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim
government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.
They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up
against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block
in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city's
south-western suburbs.
They say Dr Allawi told onlookers the victims had each killed as many as
50 Iraqis and they "deserved worse than death".
The Prime Minister's office has denied the entirety of the witness
accounts in a written statement to the Herald, saying Dr Allawi had
never visited the centre and he did not carry a gun.
But the informants told the Herald that Dr Allawi shot each young
man in the head as about a dozen Iraqi policemen and four Americans from
the Prime Minister's personal security team watched in stunned silence..."
"...US officials in Iraq have not made an outright denial of the
allegations. An emailed response to questions from the Herald to
the US ambassador, John Negroponte, said: "If we attempted to refute
each [rumour], we would have no time for other business. As far as this
embassy's press office is concerned, this case is closed."
Iraq's
interim PM executed six insurgents: witnesses
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Lateline Transcript 16/07/04
"Let's go straight to the allegations that Iyad Allawi executed as
many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station at the end of
June.
The explosive claims in tomorrow's Sydney Morning Herald
and
Age newspapers allege that the prisoners were
handcuffed and blindfolded, lined up against a courtyard wall and
shot by the Iraqi Prime Minister.
Dr Allawi is alleged to have told those around him that he wanted
to send a clear message to the police on how to deal with
insurgents.
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Two people allege they witnessed the killings and there are also
claims the Iraqi Interior Minister was present as well as four
American security men in civilian dress.
Well, the journalist reporting the story is Paul McGeough, awarded
a Walkley Award for his coverage of the Iraq war last year.
He's also a former editor of the Herald and is now the
paper's chief correspondent.
He's joined me on the line from a location in the Middle East.
MAXINE McKEW: Paul McGeough, thanks for joining us
Paul, as you've also made clear in your article, Prime Minister
Allawi has flatly denied this story.
Why then is the Herald so confident about publishing it?
PAUL McGEOUGH, 'SYDNEY MORNING HERALD' AND 'AGE' FOREIGN
CORRESPONDENT: Well it's a very contentious issue.
What you have is two very solid eyewitness accounts of what
happened at a police security complex in a south-west Baghdad
suburb.
They are very detailed.
They were done separately.
Each witness is not aware that the other spoke.
They were contacted through personal channels rather than through
the many political, religious or military organisations working in
Baghdad that might be trying to spin a tale.
And they've laid it out very carefully and very clearly as to what
they saw..."
Iraqi
leader 'killed prisoners'
The Sunday Times 17/07/04
US
media kills story that Iraqi PM executed 6 prisoners
Daily Times 19/07/04
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