Slain MP’s family urges Jordan to arrest suspect Dayni

SALAH AL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: The family of a killed Iraqi lawmaker on Thursday said they have confirmed information that suspect legislator Mohammed al-Dayni is in Amman, appealing to the Jordanian authorities to arrest and hand him over to the Iraqi authorities. “Our own sources have confirmed that Dayni was in the Jordanian capital Amman last week,” Modahi al-Awad, the brother of Mohammed al-Awad, who was killed in the Iraqi parliament blast in 2007, told IraqiNews.com news agency. The Iraqi parliament on February 25, 2009 had stripped Dayni of immunity after the interior ministry pressed charges against him that he was responsible for several acts of violence, including the suicide explosive belt blast inside the parliament cafeteria on April 12, 2007, which left three people, including two lawmakers, killed and 20 others, including journalists, wounded. One of the two was Awad, a member of parliament from the National Dialogue Front (NDF). “We call on the Jordanian government and King Abdullah II to intervene to arrest Dayni or prevent him from leaving to a third country and handing him over to the Iraqi authorities for investigations on the charges that he was involved in the assassination of my brother Mohammed al-Awad,” Modahi al-Awad, who belongs to the Iraqi National Project Grouping party led by lawmaker Saleh al-Motlak, told IraqiNews.com in Tikrit. The official spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command (NOC), Maj. General Qassem Atta, had told IraqiNews.com on March 7, 2009 that Dayni’s name was placed on a red list to help the Interpol arrest him in case he escapes outside the country. AmR (S) 1