Iraq: Guards Say Vice President Ordered Them to Kill Officials
Former bodyguards for Iraq’s fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs, as a politically charged trial against the vice president began. Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who was in Turkey but faced trial in absentia, has been accused of playing a role in 150 bombings, assassinations […]Former bodyguards for Iraq’s fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs, as a politically charged trial against the vice president began.
Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who was in Turkey but faced trial in absentia, has been accused of playing a role in 150 bombings, assassinations and other attacks from 2005 to 2011.
