Iraqi Sunni group wants finance minister on trial (condoned death squads)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16871949.htm

Iraqi Sunni group wants finance minister on trial


BAGHDAD, June 16 (Reuters) - An Iraqi Sunni group renewed accusations on Friday that Shi'ite Finance Minister Bayan Jabor condoned death squads and prisoner torture while he was interior minister, and demanded he be tried by an international court.

Jabor, a member of the powerful SCIRI Islamist party, served as interior minister during the previous, transitional government and was accused by Sunni leaders of sanctioning militias targeting minority Sunnis.

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"There is no escape from referring him to an international court," said the Muslim Scholars Association, a Sunni group fiercely critical of the U.S.-sponsored political process.

"Giving him another portfolio and keeping his assistants in their position means that the new government is partner to the crimes," the group said in a statement.