- TEHRAN (MNA) - A new group
calling itself the Iraqi Liberation Organization has placed bounties on
the heads of Shia and Kurdish members of the Iraqi Governing Council.
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- The group, which is composed of former members of the
Iraqi Baath Party, has offered bounties for the assassination of Iraqi
National Congress (INC) leader Ahmed Chalabi, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
(PUK) leader Jalal Talebani, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Massoud
Barzani, Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) leader
Sayyed Abel Aziz al-Hakim, Iraqi National Accord leader Iyad Allawi, and
Ayatollah Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum.
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- It has placed a five-million-dollar bounty on the head
of each of these Iraqi Governing Council members.
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- In a report released on its website the organization
has said it would also arrange for the flight of anyone who assassinates
one of these Iraqi interim administration members.
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- The organization has also offered one to two million
dollars for the capture or assassination of any Iraqi minister.
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- The Iraqi Liberation Organization has called Iraqi Governing
Council members U.S. mercenaries.
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- There is still no precise information on this previously
unknown organization, which claims to have a military wing, but it seems
to consist of former Baath Party members who are trying to create an atmosphere
of terror by assassinating Kurdish and Shia leaders as a new transitional
council is preparing to take over in Iraq.
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- All of the Iraqis whose names have been placed on the
death list are either Shias or Kurds.
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- http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=5/4/2004&Cat=2&Num=039
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