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Conviction of would-be Allawi assassins appealed
Three Iraqis who plotted to kill former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi during a 2004 visit to Germany are appealing their convictions.
- AP
- Published: 15:13 July 22, 2008
Stuttgart: Three Iraqis who plotted to kill former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi during a 2004 visit to Germany are appealing their convictions.
The state court says on Tuesday the defence is appealing the conviction of the trio on charges of attempted participation in murder and membership in terrorist organisation Ansar Al Islam.
Prosecutors say ringleader Ata Abdoulaziz Rashid, Rafik Mohammad Yousaf and Mazen Ali Hussain planned to attack Allawi at a business forum at a bank in downtown Berlin.
A few weeks earlier, Ansar Al Islam had called for Allawi to be killed.
The men were arrested in pre-dawn raids in December 2004. The business forum was canceled, but Allawi went ahead with a meeting in Berlin later that day.
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