3,000 Iraqi Cops In Sting On Saddam’s Baath Party Succesor
Baghdad, Dec 9, (VOI) – Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani said his ministry recruited 3,000 undercover policemen to track down the former Baath Party cells belonging to Izzat Ibrahim al-Dori and Muhammad Younes al-Ahmad.
“The operatives of the so-called al-Awda (Return) Organization, which stemmed from the Baath Party and belong to Dori and Ahmad, will be hunted down by 3,000 policemen working undercover,” Bulani said in a joint press conference with Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qader al-Ubaidi on Sunday.
Bulani said “one of the strong factors that contributed to enhancing security was the decision taken by Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr to freeze his Mahdi Army militias, which helped sort out criminals who cover under several names.”
The interior minister also praised the “tribal efforts and the government policy that turned what used to be called hotspots into safe areas.”
The deputy governor of Salah al-Din province had told VOI on Friday that a security force raided a “hypothetical hideout belonging to the former Iraqi vice president, Dori, in a village in eastern Tikrit and found documents confirming “Dori’s links with armed organizations.”
“The seized documents, of recent dates, included papers sent by leaders of organizations to Dor and contained information on the factions, formations and armed activities in the northern Iraqi provinces,” he said.
“The raiding force also found an original blueprint of the scheme for last March’s attack on the Badosh prison in Mosul, capital of Ninewa province,” he added.
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