Salahahal-Din Legislature says committee to be formed to investigate Sunday’s air-landing in his Province

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A Legislature of Salahal-Din Province has said on Sunday that the Iraqi Parliament would form a committee to investigate the joint U.S.-Iraqi air-landing on a village in his Province, demanding the compensation of its victims.   “What has happened in al-Rufeiat village of Balad township, 95 km to the south of Tikrit, the center of Salahal-Din Province, represents a violation against the Iraqi sovereignty, which the Americans claims to have handed over the security dossier to the Iraqi sovereignty, ending the presence of its troops in the country,” Shaalan Abul-Karim told IraqiNews.com news agency.   Abdul-Karim said that “we can’t keep silent towards the said incident and similar incidents, carried out by the American forces.”   “The Parliament session on Monday shall witness the formation of an investigation committee to demand the Iraqi government and the Foreign Ministry to present a protest against such horrible acts, compensate the families of the victims and banning such operations in the future,” he said.   Abdul-Karim said that “the attacked family had been among the forces that opposed the armed groups and stood against terrorism, when the security situation had been deteriorated, hence one can’t explain the reason for what the American troops have done to this family, unless if Washington supports terrorism.”   Noteworthy is that a joint U.S.-Iraq force had carried out an air-landing on al-Rufeiat village of Balad township, south of Tikrit, 175 km to the northwest of Baghdad, killing 4 persons, among them an old man and wounding six others, including 4 women, according to a statement by the Tribal Chieftain of the area, Sheikh Yousif al-Rufei.   SKH (RT) 903