Dhary’s killers attempted to create “sectarian strife” – PM

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has charged the killers of Iraq’s National Assembly Member, Dhary al-Fayadh, who was assassinated in Baghdad in 2005, with planning to “create a sectarian strife among the people of Iraq.” “We can read from the martyrdom of Dhary, a Tribal Chieftain, that Iraqi tribes who defended the homeland are confronting a difficult phase,” Maliki said in a speech at the mourning procession for Dhary al-Fayadh, who was killed with his son and three of his bodyguards in northern Baghdad’s Rashidiyia district on 28 June, 2005. Maliki said that those “who committed the crime of killing Dhary, through his murder had pinpointed the National Assembly in order to create a sectarian strife among one united people.” Dhary al-Fayadh, who was killed with his son and three of his guards in a booby-trapped car explosion in north Baghdad’s Rashidiya district, was the Chieftain of the Sunni Albu-Amer Tribe and the oldest member of the National Assembly, the first Parliament formed in Iraq after the downfall of the former regime in 2003.   SKH (TI)/SR 441