Topic: Ali al-Lami

Iraqi Kurdish leader boosts power to disputed city

0 . The president of Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region said Wednesday he is giving free electricity to the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk ...

Iraq arrests suspect in anti-Baath chief murder

Iraqi authorities have arrested a man in connection with the assassination last week of the head of Iraq's controversial anti-Baath committee, Baghdad's security command centre said on Tuesday.Ali al-Lami was killed by a gunshot to the head in what ...

Funeral for top Iraq official as Baathists blamed

Dozens of people attended the funeral of the chief of Iraq's controversial anti-Baath committee on Friday, with officials and politicians blaming ex-regime loyalists for his brazen killing in Baghdad.Ali al-Lami was killed by a gunshot to the head in what ...

Head of Iraq anti-Baath committee gunned down

Iraqi security forces were on Friday hunting the killers of Iraq's controversial anti-Baath committee chief, who was shot in the head while on his way home in east Baghdad the previous evening.The brazen shooting came little more than a year ...

Nine 'Baath candidates' can take Iraq seats

Nine successful candidates from Iraq's March polls charged with links to Saddam Hussein's Baath party can take their seats in parliament, the head of the body responsible for barring them said Monday."The judicial assembly issued a decision that accepted ...
Iraq on Sunday branded as illegal an influential committee's recommendation that hundreds of military officers said to be loyal to executed dictator Saddam Hussein be fired."The serving officers and civilians were employed entirely legally, in respect of the law," said ...
Evidence that led to candidates being barred from Iraq's March 7 election for suspected links to Saddam Hussein will be released in the coming days, the head of the committee that disqualified them told AFP on Saturday.Ali al-Lami said the ...