www.albawaba.com December 20, 2003
Daughter of slain Iraqi opposition leader says US helped Saddam in
1993 to quash coup attempt
The daughter of a prominent Iraqi opposition leader, who was
assassinated in Beirut by Saddam Hussein's secret service in 1994
said she would sue the ousted Iraqi president before three
international courts, charging that the U.S. was a virtual accomplice
in her father's murder.
Nora al Tamimi, daughter of slain Iraqi opposition activist Taleb al
Suhail al Tamimi, said from Beirut in a newspaper interview published
Saturday that her father had planned a coup d'etat to overthrow
Saddam in 1993, operating from Beirut and Amman.
"Zero hour was set for a certain June day in 1993 to stage the coup
when Saddam would have been sponsoring an official event in Baghdad,"
Nora told the London-based Asharq Al Awsat newspaper in an interview
conducted at the family house in Beirut.
"But the Americans, who did not want the coup to succeed possibly
because they were certain my father would not go along with their
polices, tipped off Saddam about the impending putsch by my father
and gave the names of his top aides," Nora said. "All of them died in
Saddam's torture chambers."
Sheik Taleb Al Tamimi, who led a million-member Central Iraqi tribe
called the Bani Tamim, was shot dead April 12,1994 at his apartment
in Beirut's Ein El Tineh district in an assassination officially
blamed by the Lebanese authorities on four Iraqi embassy diplomats,
who were detained and then released on the grounds they enjoyed
diplomatic immunity, Nora recalled.
Saddam has severed Baghdad's diplomatic ties with Beirut upon the
detention of the four.
Nora said she plans to sue Saddam at the United Nations, before the
International Court of Justice at The Hague and before the world
organization of human rights.
Nora said her sister Saffia,38,a human rights activist, has already
returned to Iraq and is currently making the needed arrangements in
Baghdad to recover the family's bank accounts and property, which
were confiscated by Saddam in 1968, when her father fled Iraq.
She said the family would return to Iraq soon with the remains of her
father for reburial in his native country.
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Daughter of slain Iraqi opposition leader says US helped Saddam in
1993 to quash coup attempt
The daughter of a prominent Iraqi opposition leader, who was
assassinated in Beirut by Saddam Hussein's secret service in 1994
said she would sue the ousted Iraqi president before three
international courts, charging that the U.S. was a virtual accomplice
in her father's murder.
Nora al Tamimi, daughter of slain Iraqi opposition activist Taleb al
Suhail al Tamimi, said from Beirut in a newspaper interview published
Saturday that her father had planned a coup d'etat to overthrow
Saddam in 1993, operating from Beirut and Amman.
"Zero hour was set for a certain June day in 1993 to stage the coup
when Saddam would have been sponsoring an official event in Baghdad,"
Nora told the London-based Asharq Al Awsat newspaper in an interview
conducted at the family house in Beirut.
"But the Americans, who did not want the coup to succeed possibly
because they were certain my father would not go along with their
polices, tipped off Saddam about the impending putsch by my father
and gave the names of his top aides," Nora said. "All of them died in
Saddam's torture chambers."
Sheik Taleb Al Tamimi, who led a million-member Central Iraqi tribe
called the Bani Tamim, was shot dead April 12,1994 at his apartment
in Beirut's Ein El Tineh district in an assassination officially
blamed by the Lebanese authorities on four Iraqi embassy diplomats,
who were detained and then released on the grounds they enjoyed
diplomatic immunity, Nora recalled.
Saddam has severed Baghdad's diplomatic ties with Beirut upon the
detention of the four.
Nora said she plans to sue Saddam at the United Nations, before the
International Court of Justice at The Hague and before the world
organization of human rights.
Nora said her sister Saffia,38,a human rights activist, has already
returned to Iraq and is currently making the needed arrangements in
Baghdad to recover the family's bank accounts and property, which
were confiscated by Saddam in 1968, when her father fled Iraq.
She said the family would return to Iraq soon with the remains of her
father for reburial in his native country.
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