Tariq al-Hashimi

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Tariq al-Hashimi (2006)

Tariq al-Hashimi (full name in Arabic طارق أحمد بكر الهاشمي Tariq Ahmad Bakr al-Haschimi , DMG Ṭāriq Aḥmad Bakr al-Hāšimī ; * 1942 in Baghdad ) is an Iraqi politician. He was Vice President of his country until September 2012. He is a Sunni and general secretary of the Iraqi Islamic Party , which isclose tothe Muslim Brotherhood and is in turn a member of the Iraqi national movement .

Life

Tariq al-Haschimi grew up as the oldest of five children in a middle-class family in Baghdad. Al-Hashimi is related to Yasin al-Hashimi, the country's former prime minister, and Taha al-Hashimi, brigadier general, defense minister and later prime minister of the 1941 Movement. He graduated from elementary and middle school in Baghdad. In 1959 he entered the military academy, which he graduated in 1962 with the rank of lieutenant. In 1971 he completed a degree in administrative and military sciences. Al-Hashimi was in Great Britain, Czechoslovakia and India for training purposes. In 1978 he graduated from Baghdad University with a degree in economics.

Al-Hashimi retired from active service in the military at the age of 33. Tariq al-Haschimi then worked for three years as director of the United Arab Shipping Company in Kuwait. After the Iraqi attack on Kuwait , al-Hashimi returned to Iraq.

Career

After the occupation of Iraq in 2003 , al-Hashimi, who is considered a moderate Sunni, campaigned early on for an understanding between Sunnis and Shiites .

Al-Hashimi supported the independence efforts of the Diyala province .

arrest warrant

On December 19, 2011, one day after the last US combat troops had withdrawn from Iraq, an arrest warrant was issued for al-Hashimi. The issuing authority, the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior, was provisionally headed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the time .

Confessions of three of his bodyguards were shown on the state broadcaster al-Iraqia , according to which he allegedly instigated nine bombings and murder attacks between 2009 and 2011. He is said to have participated in an attack against al-Maliki or in an attack on the Council of Representatives in November 2011. One of the bodyguards was subsequently killed. The secretary of al-Hashimi coordinated the acts. Overall, he is said to have been responsible for 150 terrorist and murder attacks. In addition, al-Hashimi is said to have prepared a coup .

Al-Hashimi described the confessions as forced and accused al-Maliki of fabricating the allegations to destroy his reputation. Despite the arrest warrant, he was not arrested and traveled immediately to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan , while two of his bodyguards were arrested. Al-Maliki called on the Kurdish government to extradite al-Hashimi and announced unspecified " problems " if he refused or escaped .

Al-Hashimi described the government and the security forces as accomplices in the series of attacks on December 22, three days after the arrest warrant was issued. It is not possible to carry out attacks of this magnitude without their approval.

At the beginning of April 2012 al-Hashimi left for Qatar , then to Saudi Arabia and from there to Turkey .

On May 8, Interpol sent a Red Notice on al-Hashimi to member states on suspicion of organizing and financing terrorist attacks in Iraq.

On September 9, 2012, he was sentenced to death in absentia. According to the court, al-Hashimi was responsible for the deaths of a lawyer and a general. Along with him, his private secretary and son-in-law Ahmed Kahtan was sentenced to death.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iraqi head of government threatens to resign. In: ORF . December 20, 2011, accessed December 20, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Government crisis in Iraq. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 19, 2011, accessed December 20, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Ulrich Ladurner: "That was a blow from Tehran". In: The time. January 12, 2012, accessed January 13, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b c Birgit Svensson: Arrest Warrant - Iraq's Vice President on the run. In: The world . April 24, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b Inga Rogg: Crash in the government. In: the daily newspaper . December 20, 2011, accessed December 21, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Inga Rogg: Sheikh Duleimi calls for an uprising. In: the daily newspaper. March 2, 2012, accessed March 2, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Maliki demands extradition of Iraq's vice president. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 21, 2011, accessed December 21, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Baghdad blasts: Hashemi accuses government over attacks. In: BBC News . December 24, 2011, accessed December 28, 2011 .
  9. ^ Maliki's lonely Syria course. In: The Standard . April 3, 2012, Retrieved April 6, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Iraqi Vice President on Interpol wanted list. In: ORF . May 8, 2012, Retrieved May 8, 2012 .
  11. ↑ http://www.bild.de/home/telegramm/home-telegramm/telegramm-15478948,textId=26108202,tabindex=0.bild.html
  12. ↑ Vice-President Al Hashemi sentenced to death
personal data
SURNAME Hashimi, Tariq al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad