IRAQ: SUICIDE BOMB EXPLODES OUTSIDE SLOVAK EMBASSY INJURING FOUR IRAQIS, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR SAYS HE WANTS SADDAM TRIAL SOON.

Record ID: 358726

  • Title: IRAQ: SUICIDE BOMB EXPLODES OUTSIDE SLOVAK EMBASSY INJURING FOUR IRAQIS, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR SAYS HE WANTS SADDAM TRIAL SOON.
  • Date: 12th June 2005
  • Summary: (W3) GADRYA, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 11, 2005)(REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/CU: EXTERIORS OF THE SLOVAK EMBASSY WITH TROOPS OUTSIDE, CLOSE OF SIGN (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. GV/GV/PAN: IRAQI AND U.S.TROOPS AT THE SCENE; FIREFIGHTERS AT THE SCENE (3 SHOTS) 0.24 3. GV/PAN/MV: SCORCH MARKS, DAMAGE TO THE BUILDING; POLICE OFFICERS, WITNESSES AT THE SCENE, DAMA
  • Embargoed: 27th June 2005 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD AND NAJAF,IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA6M3SZ4TQPQNFMS7KO5IXFZ4D8
  • Story Text: Four Iraqis wounded as suicide bomb explodes outside
    Slovak embassy and Iraqi National Security Advisor says he
    wants Saddam trial soon.



    A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck blew himself up
    outside the Slovak embassy in Baghdad on Saturday (June 11)
    , wounding four people, police said.

    A police official said Iraqi civilians and guards were
    wounded.

    A Slovak foreign ministry spokesman in Bratislava said
    some embassy staff were in the building at the time of the
    attack, but no one was hurt. The explosion damaged the
    embassy gate, and walls of the building, he said.

    The foreign ministry could not say whether the attack
    was directed specifically against Slovakia as there was a
    series of attacks in Baghdad at around that time, he added.

    Slovakia, an ex-communist state which joined the European
    Union last year, has been a staunch supporter of the
    U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq.

    The central European country of 5.4 million has had 107
    army engineers and security personnel deployed in Iraq
    since July 2003.

    Iraqi National Security advisor, Mowaffak al-Rubaie,
    said on Saturday (June 11) that the trial of ousted Iraqi
    president Saddam Hussein should start soon.

    "We hope we will see Saddam Hussein stand trial and we
    are working towards that", Mowaffak al-Rubaie told
    reporters.

    He said that, despite security problems, he hoped that
    the trial could begin before the referendum of the
    country's constitution, due by October. "Of course, yes, there are
    some security and political
    problems, but, as the government, we want the benefit for
    our people of a trial, so a trial will happen before
    October the 15th," Mowaffak al-Rubaie said.

    The trial will be live and public and everyone will be
    able to see it," the Iraqi national security advisor said.

    Mowaffak al-Rubaie made his comments after meeting
    Iraq's senior Shi'ite cleric Ali Al-Sistani in Najaf.



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