Urgent / MP al-Dayni’s immunity stripped

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday stripped lawmaker Mohamed al-Dayni of his immunity by a landslide vote after accusations made against him by the interior ministry, a media source said. “The parliament decided on Wednesday (Feb. 25) to strip Mohamed al-Dayni of his immunity in accordance with the rule of the higher judicial court,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. MP from the Iraqi Accord Front (IAF) had said that a plane belonging to the Iraqi airlines carrying five lawmakers, including MP Mohamed al-Dayni, which was heading for Amman, returned to the Baghdad airport after 20 minutes from taking off. The general director of the national command center, General Abdul Karim Khalaf, had said that the lawmaker is not allowed to leave the country in accordance with the rule of the higher judicial court. MP Mohammed al-Dayni from the National Dialogue Front (NDF) last Monday (Feb. 22) denied involvement in a 2007 bombing that tore through the Iraqi Parliament, in addition to charges of sectarian murders and displacement operations. “The unfair campaign launched against me these days has got personal and has a political dimension,” Dayni had said during a Baghdad-based press conference attended by IraqiNews.com news agency. Dayna called on the Security and Defense Committee in the Parliament to disclose the outcome of the investigation into the bombing. On April, 12, 2007, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a cafeteria at the Iraqi Parliament, killing three persons, two of them MPs, and wounding 20 others. SH (S) 1