An Al Qaeda-linked Iraqi militant group has threatened to kill leaders of the country's main Sunni Arab party for having called for a 'yes' vote on the constitution, according to an internet statement.
The Iraqi Islamic Party called for a 'yes' vote in the Oct 15 constitutional referendum.
'The Geish al-Taifa al-Mansura (army of the victorious confession) has decided that the apostates (Iraqi Islamic Party leaders) Mohsen Abdel Hamid and Tareq al-Hashemi are targets of the mujahedeen (fighters) wherever they are,' said the statement whose authenticity could not be confirmed.
It said the Iraqi Islamic Party is 'neither Islamic nor Iraqi... but (a movement) under the control of the (US-led) occupation... which does not represent the Sunnis in Iraq and has no right to speak in their name.'
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