Tehran, March 19, IRNA -- Former Iraqi army chief, Nizar al-Khazraji, who has escaped from Denmark in defiance of Swedish court ruling banning his movements for his part in war crimes has joined the US command council in Qatar, Iraqi opposition source said on Wednesday. He had told IRNA so far that the US has invited several opposition figures to join the command council to conduct attack on Iraq. Nizar al-Khazraji, suspected of crimes against Kurds in the late 1980s, is not allowed to leave Denmark. He has surrendered his passport and is required to report to police three times a week. These restrictions were imposed by a local court on November 19. Khazraji was head of Iraq's armed forces from 1987 to 1990, fled to Jordan in 1995 and four years later applied for political asylum in Denmark. He was denied asylum as immigration authorities thought it likely he was involved in chemical weapon attacks on Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.
The source on this is the Islamic Republic News Agency (Iran), so I'm doubtful. He would be useful in convincing Iraqi officers that he had served with to give up and not use WMD, so we'll have to wait and see. |