Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Questa democrazia Irakena e' un successone!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/05/iraq.lawmaker/index.html
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983
bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's
parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling
coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.
Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from
prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as
an Iranian agent in Iraq.
U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Maliki's
government with the allegations against Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, whom it
says assists Iranian special forces in Iraq as "a conduit for weapons
and political influence."
Repeated efforts by CNN to reach Jamal Jafaar Mohammed for comment
through the parliament, through the ruling Shiite Muslim coalition and
the Badr Organization -- the Iranian-backed paramilitary organization
he once led -- have been unsuccessful. (Watch how a convicted
terrorist became an Iraqi lawmaker Video)
A Kuwaiti court sentenced Jamal Jafaar Mohammed to death in 1984 in
the car bombings of the U.S. and French embassies the previous
December. Five people died in the attacks and 86 were wounded.
He had fled the country before the trial.
Western intelligence agencies also accuse Jamal Jafaar Mohammed of
involvement in the hijacking of a Kuwaiti airliner in 1984 and the
attempted assassination of a Kuwaiti prince.
Jamal Jafaar Mohammed won a seat in Iraq's Council of Representatives
in the U.S.-backed elections of December 2005. He represents Babil
province, south of Baghdad, in parliament.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said officials are actively pursuing Jamal
Jafaar Mohammed's case with Iraqi officials. Al-Maliki has urged
American intelligence officials to share their information with Iraqi
lawmakers, who could strip Jamal Jafaar Mohammed of his parliamentary
immunity.
"We don't want parliament to be a shelter for outlaws and wanted
people," al-Maliki told CNN. "This is the government's view, but the
parliament is responsible. I don't think parliament will accept having
people like [him] or others currently in the parliament."
Al-Maliki's political party, Dawa, claimed responsibility for the
Kuwait bombings at the time but now disavows them. The Iranian-backed
Shiite Muslim party was forced into exile under former dictator Saddam
Hussein, who was executed in December.
The prime minister says the situation is embarrassing -- not only to
his government but to a U.S. administration that holds up Iraq's
government as a democratic model for the region.
Top U.S. officials, including President Bush, have accused Iran of
meddling in Iraq by fomenting sectarian violence and providing arms to
illegal militias. Bush has authorized U.S. troops to use deadly force
against Iranian agents in Iraq to defend American or allied forces,
and the administration's increasingly tough warnings to Tehran have
raised concerns that the four-year-old Iraq war could spread.
Al-Maliki told CNN last week that the United States and Iran should
stop using his country as a proxy battleground, accusing Iran of
targeting U.S. troops in Iraq but saying he doesn't want U.S. forces
to use Iraq as a base to attack Iraq's neighbors.

 people like [him] or others currently in the parliament."
Quoto.  Il Torrieri ha pienamente ragione: e' un successone.
-Stefano