Leader of main Iraqi Sunni party arrested
30/5/2005 17:23
Mohsen Abdel Hamid, leader of Iraq's main Sunni Islamic Party, was
arrested along with his three sons by US forces in Baghdad early Monday morning,
said the party and witnesses.
"The US soldiers broke into our house at 4:00
a.m. (2400 GMT) in Baghdad's western Khadra district and detained my father and
three of my brothers," Hamid's son Suhaib told Xinhua.
"The soldiers caused
damages to our house and took all our money, even the pension of my father,"
Suhaib said. The soldiers tried to detain Hamid's wife, but the old woman was so
sick, Suhaib added.
He said the search lasted one hour and a half, and "it
was humiliated as an Iraqi interpreter accompanying the US soldiers uttered
dirty words at my father."
"The soldiers took everything, mobiles, documents,
they also arrested a guest of my father who was forced to stay at our house as
it was not safe last night to leave," Suhaib said.
Suhaib was not arrested
because he was in a separate part of the house.
Two of the three arrested
sons of Hamid are high-ranking officials in the transitional Iraqi
government.
The US military did not comment on the allegations.
Hamid was
a senior member of the dissolved governing council after the collapse of Saddam
Hussein regime.
Xinhua News
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