Parliamentary signatures to demand compensation from US

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Al-Ahrar bloc has the intention to collect signatures from within Parliament to  demand compensation for Iraqi citizens affected by U.S. military operations after the ceasefire and termination of military operations in 2003.   The bloc, affiliated with the Sadrist Trend, intends to make the demand through the United Nations.   Al-Ahrar bloc MP Khalid al-Jayashi declared that “Iraq is not obliged to pay U.S. soldiers for their damages in Iraq, because the only victims are the Iraqi people.”   He declared that a campaign is underway to collect parliamentary signatures, through the United Nations, to compensate the Iraqis who were affected by U.S. military operations after the ceasefire and termination of military operations in 2003.   “The U.S. Congress should see the damages inflicted in Iraq. It should be noted that Iraq did not request their presence. They came to topple a regime, they should bear all the damages incurred on Iraq and its people,” he added. RM (TS)/SR 718