Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06BAGHDAD1929
2006-06-08 02:50:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Baghdad
Cable title:
ALLEGATIONS OF AT LEAST THREE LEAVING MOI COMPOUND
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C O N F I D E N T I A L BAGHDAD 001929
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/07/2016
TAGS: PHUM KDEM IZ
SUBJECT: ALLEGATIONS OF AT LEAST THREE LEAVING MOI COMPOUND
KIDNAPPED AND KILLED
Classified By: POLITICAL COUNSELOR MARGARET SCOBEY, FOR REASONS 1.4 (B)
AND (D).
C O N F I D E N T I A L BAGHDAD 001929
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/07/2016
TAGS: PHUM KDEM IZ
SUBJECT: ALLEGATIONS OF AT LEAST THREE LEAVING MOI COMPOUND
KIDNAPPED AND KILLED
Classified By: POLITICAL COUNSELOR MARGARET SCOBEY, FOR REASONS 1.4 (B)
AND (D).
1. (C) Adamiyah District Council member and human rights lead
Dr. Riyad al-Adhadh told EmbOffs June 1 that three Adamiyah
residents were kidnapped and later killed as they were
driving from the Ministry of Interior headquarters detention
facility. According to Dr. Riyad, Mustafa Mu'aid Ibrahim,
Afeef Ibrahim, and Mus'ab Abdulsattar went to visit a family
member at the facility on May 22. As they were leaving, they
were seen by another resident being stopped by men in MoI
uniforms at an exit checkpoint. Later that day, family
members received a call demanding a ransom. The bodies of
two of the victims were found in the morgue several days
later.
2. (SBU) On May 31, the Adamiyah District Council called a
meeting to demand an investigation of this incident. Although
residents claimed that 52 individuals have been abducted in a
similar fashion, Dr. Riyad al-Adhadh to date has been unable
to collect more than the three names noted above. On June 3,
Shaykh Ahmed Abd al-Ghafour al-Samaraie, head of the Sunni
Endowment, appeared on Al-Jazeera TV demanding the
establishment of internal investigative committees to look
into disappearances of individuals going to MoI detention
facilities. Al-Samaraie called on the Prime Minister to
dissolve renegade groups within the MoI, and asked the MoD to
not only take responsibility for capturing these criminals,
but to disarm suspect checkpoints.
3. (C) Comment: This incident has received extensive reaction
within Baghdad's Sunni community partly because one of the
victims, Mu'sab Abdulsattar, was the son-in-law of IIP leader
Muhsen Abdul Hameed. It is consistent with other reports we
have heard sporadically over the past few months. Many of
our Sunni contacts report members of their community are
afraid to visit relatives in MOI custody, for fear of being
abducted or worse.
KHALILZAD
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/07/2016
TAGS: PHUM KDEM IZ
SUBJECT: ALLEGATIONS OF AT LEAST THREE LEAVING MOI COMPOUND
KIDNAPPED AND KILLED
Classified By: POLITICAL COUNSELOR MARGARET SCOBEY, FOR REASONS 1.4 (B)
AND (D).
1. (C) Adamiyah District Council member and human rights lead
Dr. Riyad al-Adhadh told EmbOffs June 1 that three Adamiyah
residents were kidnapped and later killed as they were
driving from the Ministry of Interior headquarters detention
facility. According to Dr. Riyad, Mustafa Mu'aid Ibrahim,
Afeef Ibrahim, and Mus'ab Abdulsattar went to visit a family
member at the facility on May 22. As they were leaving, they
were seen by another resident being stopped by men in MoI
uniforms at an exit checkpoint. Later that day, family
members received a call demanding a ransom. The bodies of
two of the victims were found in the morgue several days
later.
2. (SBU) On May 31, the Adamiyah District Council called a
meeting to demand an investigation of this incident. Although
residents claimed that 52 individuals have been abducted in a
similar fashion, Dr. Riyad al-Adhadh to date has been unable
to collect more than the three names noted above. On June 3,
Shaykh Ahmed Abd al-Ghafour al-Samaraie, head of the Sunni
Endowment, appeared on Al-Jazeera TV demanding the
establishment of internal investigative committees to look
into disappearances of individuals going to MoI detention
facilities. Al-Samaraie called on the Prime Minister to
dissolve renegade groups within the MoI, and asked the MoD to
not only take responsibility for capturing these criminals,
but to disarm suspect checkpoints.
3. (C) Comment: This incident has received extensive reaction
within Baghdad's Sunni community partly because one of the
victims, Mu'sab Abdulsattar, was the son-in-law of IIP leader
Muhsen Abdul Hameed. It is consistent with other reports we
have heard sporadically over the past few months. Many of
our Sunni contacts report members of their community are
afraid to visit relatives in MOI custody, for fear of being
abducted or worse.
KHALILZAD