Identifier
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07BUCHAREST787
2007-07-09 06:22:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Bucharest
Cable title:  

ROMANIA: IRAQI AMBASSADOR MURAD SHARES WITNESS

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C O N F I D E N T I A L BUCHAREST 000787 

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DEPT FOR EUR/NCE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/01/2017
TAGS: MOPS MARR PREL PGOV RO
SUBJECT: ROMANIA: IRAQI AMBASSADOR MURAD SHARES WITNESS
REPORT ON DEATH OF ALI MURAD

REF: BUCHAREST 004

Classified By: DCM Mark A. Taplin, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L BUCHAREST 000787

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DEPT FOR EUR/NCE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/01/2017
TAGS: MOPS MARR PREL PGOV RO
SUBJECT: ROMANIA: IRAQI AMBASSADOR MURAD SHARES WITNESS
REPORT ON DEATH OF ALI MURAD

REF: BUCHAREST 004

Classified By: DCM Mark A. Taplin, for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)


1. (C) Iraqi Ambassador Abdel Murad sent a letter following
up his earlier one (reftel) regarding the death of his
father-in-law during an incident involving U.S. troops in
Baghdad last Christmas. He confirmed that his Baghdad
relatives are staying with him in Bucharest, and they have
yet to receive any response to their inquiries regarding the
death of Ali Murad. Ambassador Murad accompanied the letter
with Fadhila Karam Mohamad's (Ali Murad's widow) account
(sent to EUR/NCE by email) of what happened the night in
question, as reported to her nephew, an FAO official resident
in Cairo.


2. (C) Begin text of Murad letter to Ambassador:

Excellency,

I have the honor to convey to you my sincere greetings,
kindly asking you to pay attention, once again, to the tragic
circumstances of the death of my beloved father-in-law, Ali
Murad, who has been killed in the night of 25th December, at
his home, in Baghdad. No investigation of this case has been
done till now and his house is still devastated and empty,
because of the terrorists who dominate the zone of the
Christian Assyrians, called "Dora", in the south of Baghdad,
where is situated this house in which our family lived since
five decades.

Unfortunately, the suspicions hang over the said General
Mohand Witwit, director of the military intelligence of
Russafa quarter in Baghdad, who is acting on American army's
order in Iraq. He didn't serve, but he has been appointed by
the Americans in Babylon, the days of Saddam Hussein'
collapse, in April 2003. And he will be sent to the Iraqi
Embassy in London as Deputy Military Attach, as a reward for
his bad deeds in Baghdad...

Please find, Excellency, herewith enclosed, the English
translation of Mrs. Fadhila Karam Mohamad's account, who
describes with precision the details of the events. Mrs.
Fadhila Karam is my mother-in-law and she is living now with
us in Bucharest, after she lost one of her eardrums. We are
doing our best to help her to recover, after the terrible
trauma she suffered.

I would be grateful to you, Excellency, to be so kind to send
the account to the concerned authorities in the United States
of America, in order to investigate with General Mohand
Witwit, before his leaving Baghdad.

Yours sincerely,
/s/
Adel Murad
Ambassador

Bucharest, June 26, 2007

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