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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Iraqi lawmaker faces charges as attack mastermind By BRIAN MURPHY,Associated Press Writer AP - Monday, February 23 BAGHDAD - The confessions told of high-stakes terror and street-level thuggery: former bodyguards accused a combative Sunni lawmaker on Sunday of directing a wave of violence that ranged from a 2007 suicide blast inside the parliament building to kidnappings seeking just $30 ransoms. ADVERTISEMENT In tapes released by Iraqi authorities, two former bodyguards of Mohammed al-Dayni _ one of them his nephew _ detailed a nearly three-year trail of bloodshed and atrocities they allege was masterminded by the 39-year-old electrical engineer, including burying alive more than 100 people in an act of revenge. Al-Dayni rejected the allegations as "untrue and baseless" and suggested it was political punishment for standing up to the Shiite-led government. Iraqi authorities offered no details to support the charges beyond the interrogation tapes. Officials also did not comment on the timing of the moves against al-Dayni, best known for his frequent allegations of rights abuses targeting Sunnis and suspicions of Iranian influence in Iraqi affairs. But any serious showdown over the case risks complicating U.S.-backed efforts at political reconciliation. Mainstream Sunni political groups widely participated in last month's provincial elections _ and, more important, did not challenge the results. Yet it's still a fragile rapport after years of bitter sectarian clashes that pushed Iraq close to civil war. The interrogation video shown to journalists could offer a rare window into the level of lawlessness and rage before security began to retake control of Iraq in 2007. As the videos were played, forces surrounded al-Dayni's home in western Baghdad and confiscated weapons, explosives and other items, including the passport of former Sunni lawmaker Abdul Nasser al-Janabi, who was forced out of parliament in 2007 after declaring he would join insurgents, said Col. Ali Omran. Al-Dayni, meanwhile, was at a hotel in the Green Zone, where he was effectively placed under house arrest. The spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul Sattar al-Bairqdar, said a formal arrest warrant cannot be issued until parliament lifts al-Dayni's immunity from prosecution. There was no immediate indication when lawmakers could act. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, al-Dayni claimed he was targeted because of his "patriotic stances," which included complaints of suspected Iranian influence over Shiite political groups in Iraq. "Before they accuse me, they should present evidence, not baseless allegations," he said, adding that he did not plan to surrender to authorities. Al-Dayni was elected in national elections in 2005 from the Diyala province, a mixed area that has been the scene of festering Sunni-Shiite tensions. In November, al-Dayni was dropped from a small Sunni bloc in parliament because of his "comments and stances," said the group's leader, Saleh al-Mutlaq. But al-Dayni has his defenders. Salim Abdullah, a Sunni lawmaker and spokesman for the powerful Sunni Accordance Front, called the accusations "the kind of repression used ... against those who oppose" the country's Shiite leadership. The two former bodyguards were arrested last week, said Iraqi military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, giving no further details on when or where the taped interrogations took place. The lawmaker's nephew, Riadh Ibrahim Jassim Hussein al-Dayni, wore blue prison-style uniforms and frequently clenched his hands as he recounted the prelude to the April 2007 suicide attack in the parliament cafeteria that killed one person. He said he drove the bomber to the Rashid hotel inside the fortified Green Zone _ the same hotel where al-Dayni was located after the arrest warrant was issued. The attacker, who was not identified, entered parliament using al-Dayni's ID and was handed an explosives belt by someone working in the cafeteria, the ex-bodyguard claimed. The attack embarrassed U.S. military authorities who were then in charge of securing the Green Zone. Gen. Ray Odierno _ now the top U.S. military commander in Iraq _ called it a "very bad day." A day after the attack, an umbrella Sunni insurgent group that included al-Qaida in Iraq claimed one of its "knights" carried out the blast. In another incident, the lawmaker's nephew said he was part of a group firing mortars into the Green Zone when a man began to yell at them to stop. He said the head of al-Dayni's protection force _ Alaa al-Maliki, who was also arrested last week _ fired twice at the man. "Then I hit him with four bullets which were followed by six other bullets by Haj Alaa. The man was killed," he said, without giving the date or other details. There also were times of brutal vengeance ordered by al-Dayni, his nephew claimed. He said al-Dayni called for random executions after 11 of his guards were killed in Diyala _ directing militant groups in the province to round up 10 people for every one guard slain. He gave no further details of how the guards were killed or when the slayings occurred. "They collected 100 to 110 persons. ... They were buried alive," he said. Other times, he claimed, a mobster-style crew operated from "the launching pad" of al-Dayni's political office in western Baghdad. He described taking two people hostage in a plot arranged with a restaurant owner in the Mansour section of western Baghdad. The ransom price: $30 each. In a raid on goldsmith shops in Mansour, the nephew calmly ran through what came next: "We killed them and brought all the gold and money to Mohammed al-Dayni's office." The other bodyguard arrested, security chief al-Maliki, offered similar accounts for many of the attacks. He also described a car bombing outside Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital morgue in 2007. "It was a white Nissan," he said. "We told the men that Mohammed al-Dayni wanted them to leave the car near the morgue ... they exploded it remotely with a mobile phone." ___ Associated Press writers Sinan Salaheddin, Sameer N. Yacoub and Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report. 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