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Iraq`s Governing Council member criticizes coalition forces on Al-Hakim case

IRNA

Kuwait City, Oct 31, IRNA -- A member of the Iraqi Governing Council 
Mohammad Bahr al-Ulum here Thursday criticized the coalition forces 
in Iraq for failing to declare names of those responsible for the 
assassination of the grand Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer 
Hakim. 
Bahr al-Ulum said the coalition forces are indirectly behind 
efforts to cover the names of Al-Hakim`s killers. 
According to the Kuwaiti press, Bahr al-Ulum who was inspecting a 
humanitarian aid center in Kuwait City said some of the terrorists 
behind the murder of Al-Hakim who are loyal to the ex-Iraqi regime 
have been arrested. 
He went on to say that the coalition forces are preventing the 
divulgence of the names of killers who have been cooperating with 
the Al-Qaeda terrorist network. 
He warned that the Iraqi people would severely deal with those 
aliens who enter the Iraqi territory to carry out assassination of 
scholars and key figures. 
As for the occupying forces in Iraq, he said they had not been 
asked to enter Iraq and they have come in Iraq to change their puppet 
regime only. 
Ayatollah Hakim, head of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic 
Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI), was killed in a car bomb explosion in the 
Iraqi city of Najaf when he was returning from Friday prayers which he
himself had led. 
Hakim, who spent some 20 years in exile in Iran before returning 
in triumph to Iraq earlier this year, met a martyr`s fate along with 
his bodyguards. 
The assassination was blamed on the loyalists to the ex-regime of 
Iraq. 
Press reports said a total of 129 people were killed by the blast 
in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf and more than 220 people were injured.
HB/214 
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