Baghdad (Daily Pakistan Online) Lebanon has handed over Abdullah Yasser al-Sabawi, the grandson of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s brother, to the Iraqi government. Abdullah Yasser was arrested for his alleged involvement in the “Spacher massacre”. Is .
According to the news website “Al-Arabiya”, security authorities arrested Abdullah Yasir last June on the background of his confessions of involvement in the massacre of Speicher against the Iraqi army in Tikrit in 2014, Iraqi Interpol announced in a statement. After an extraordinary effort and intelligence tracking, the suspect involved in the Speicher massacre has been recovered from Lebanon, this person is wanted under Article 4 of terrorism, he added, adding that this recovery is the responsibility of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. , made possible by the close cooperation of the Iraqi Embassy in Lebanon and the Iraqi National Intelligence Service with the Lebanese Interpol.
According to the report, a source familiar with the issue confirmed to Al-Arabiya.net that “the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, signed a democratic decree one day before the end of his term in office, after which Sabawi was handed over to the Iraqi government.” The Lebanese president had previously refused to do so, he did not rule out the possibility that there was a “financial deal” behind the issue and that some of the people around the president, whose Iraqi Those who have relations with authorities will benefit.
According to sources, the head of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council visited Beirut a few days ago to attend a judicial conference and met with several people associated with the President of the Republic. It seems that the purpose of these meetings was to organize the extradition process.
He also said that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had sent a letter to the Lebanese security authorities two days ago, asking them not to hand over Sabaawi to the Iraqi government and convincing them that Sabaawi was a political prisoner in Lebanon. Has the status of asylum.
It should be noted that on June 12, 2014, a massacre was carried out in Camp Specher in the city of Tikrit in Salah al-Din Governorate after ISIS captured members of the Iraqi forces, which is called the Specher Massacre. 1700 Iraqi soldiers were killed in this massacre. The soldiers were taken to the presidential quarters in Tikrit and killed by firing squads. Some soldiers were buried alive.
Al-Subawi said in a previous audio recording that his nephew had left Iraq the day after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime and had not entered Iraq since then, and that the charges against him in the Speicher massacre were malicious. are based on facts that have nothing to do with truth.
