Report: Leading Sunni lawmaker Adnan al-Dulaimi accused of involvement with insurgency, may lose legal immunity

A member of parliament from the Sadr Movement said the Iraqi Parliament has received two days ago a memo from the Supreme Judicial Council asking for stripping Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) chief Adnan al-Delaimi of parliamentary immunity.

"Complaints forwarded by 50 people and confirmed by 100 witnesses in the areas of al-Adl and al-Jamea in western Baghdad accuse Delaimi of standing behind the crimes that occurred in those two neighborhoods," Bahaa al-Aaraji told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

Aaraji, who chairs the Iraqi Parliament's Legal Committee, said "I got acquainted with the file (complaints) myself. We have to stem the Iraqi bloodshed."

He said this was not the first time accusations are made against an IAF member of parliament.

"I have also read the file of IAF member of parliament Abdul-Nasser al-Janabi on similar accusations but the number of those who lodged complaints in the Delaimi case are more and evidence are stronger," added Aaraji.

Meanwhile, Dr. Zhafir al-Aani, a member of parliament from the IAF, said the accusations leveled against Delaimi are "politically motivated and not legal," speaking of "a campaign to tarnish the reputation of political figures from the IAF."

Aani told VOI "when more than 120 people gather to give false testimonies then it is not certainly a coincidence. There are political powers, if not government bodies, behind this issue."

From VOI

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