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September 24, 2005
Iraqi judge seeks arrest of British soldiers
By Abdel-Razzak Hameed
Basra -- An Iraqi judge has issued arrest warrants for two British soldiers freed
after a British raid in Basra, an Iraqi lawyer said on Saturday, and thousands
rallied in the southern city in support of a new constitution.
Judge Raghib Hassan issued the warrants on Thursday, accusing the men of killing an
Iraqi policeman and wounding another, carrying unlicensed weapons and holding false
identification, Kassim al-Sabti, the head of the lawyers' syndicate in Basra told
Reuters.
Britain's Secretary of State for Defence John Reid
(http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1388.asp) said the Ministry of Defence had
not received any arrest warrant for British soldiers in Iraq, adding that in any case
the warrants would have no legal basis.
"Iraqi law is very clear. British personnel are immune from Iraqi legal process. They
remain subject to British law", he said in a statement.
The whereabouts of the two soldiers was not clear.
British forces mounted a bid to free the two soldiers on Monday, but were initially
repelled as a crowd of angry Iraqis petrol-bombed an armoured vehicle. Later British
forces returned and armoured vehicles broke down the walls of the jail.
Basra authorities said British troops killed two Iraqi police during the raid.
Monday's flare-up has harmed the relationship British forces were able to build with
local Iraqis in and around Basra, a relatively stable city compared with other parts
of Iraq.
Basra's governing council has suspended all cooperation with the British until they
apologise, guarantee that similar actions do not recur and provide compensation for
damage inflicted.
Iraqi police said U.S. troops killed a family of four in Kerbala, south of Baghdad,
on Saturday.
Police said the family's passenger car apparently got too close to a U.S. convoy,
which opened fire, killing a father and mother and their 13-year-old son and
nine-year-old daughter.
RALLY FOR CONSTITUTION
Basra is the largest city in majority-Shia southern Iraq, and thousands of citizens
rallied on Saturday in support of a proposed new Iraqi constitution which many Shias
hope will boost their status in the fragmented country.
The rally followed calls last week by Iraq's most senior Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali
Sistani, to vote in favour of the charter, which will be put to a referendum on Oct
15.
Shias were suppressed under Saddam, who banned major religious ceremonies at the holy
cities of Najaf and Kerbala and crushed a Shia revolt in 1991. Such ceremonies have
drawn crowds of a million or more since he was ousted.
Iraq's U.S.-backed government is dominated by southern Shias and Kurds from the
north -- to the dismay of the Sunni Arabs, who make up just 20% of the population but
have dominated Iraq for decades.
Their influence has all but disappeared since Saddam fell. Many Sunnis fear if the
constitution is approved at the referendum, it will formalise their reduced role by
giving Shias broad autonomy in line with that already enjoyed by Kurds -- including
control over oil revenues.
The government and its U.S. military backers face a Sunni insurgency across the
country, in which daily bombings and shootings kill police, soldiers and civilians.
On Saturday morning, a suicide car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army checkpoint in
Baghdad, killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounding five other people, police said.
The attack, near a restaurant in the capital's Karrada district, destroyed several
cars and sent up a plume of smoke. Three soldiers and two civilians were wounded,
police said. Iraqi police and the U.S. military sealed off the area. Separately, a
U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military
said on Saturday.
* Additional reporting by Aseel Kami in Baghdad and Jeremy Lovell in London.
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