Senior Politician: Saddam's Daughter Plots to Disintegrate Iraq

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 26  Muharram  1433 /  Thursday 22 Dec 2011 / 01 Dey 1390 a

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iraqi politician disclosed a plot hatched by Raghad Saddam, the eldest daughter of the slain Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, to disintegrate the country by sowing discord among Iraqi officials and politicians and by bribing them.

"Raghad Saddam who lives in Jordan has hatched plots to disintegrate Iraq," Head of the Independent Patriot party in the Iraqi parliament Fattah Sheikh told FNA on Wednesday.

He reiterated that Raghad, who has fled Iraq with a large amount of money, has bribed a number of Iraqi politicians with large sums and exercised various other plots in a bid to spark feud among politicians and statesmen to disintegrate Iraq into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd parts.

These days Iraq is the scene of political crisis with an Iraqi court earlier this week issuing an arrest warrant for Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi who is accused of masterminding the car bombing which took place on November 28 and injured a number of Iraqi parliamentarians.

According to the Iraqi government, evidence pointed at al-Hashimi's embroilment in the parliament blast incident after deriving confessions from four arrested Islamic Party members.

An official from the interior ministry announced on Saturday on al-Iraqiya tv channel that they will show confessions indicating the involvement of a higher rank official in terrorist activities.

Hashimi was the head of the Islamic Party, a political party representative of the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq, in 2004, but in 2009 he announced that he is no longer a member of the party.

Instead, he created the Tajdeed movement, which is considered to be one of the political parties component of the secular Iraqiya block.