Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has been accused of shooting seven insurgents. Stories portray him as a rather unsavory sort of a guy, but Mr. Allawi claims the accusations aren't true. Iyad Allawi has been accused of shooting seven Iraqi insurgents, killing six of them, in the week leading up to the handover of power from the United States last month.
Two unnamed people alleged to have seen the shootings have told Australian journalist Paul McGeough that Dr Allawi shot the insurgents in a courtyard adjacent to a maximum security cell in Baghdad.
Dr Allawi's office has denied the claims.
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"Allawi is a blood curdling individual," Senator Brown said. "He helped Saddam Hussein get into power, then turned on him. Saddam Hussein went after him and he's now in a position to wreak his own trail of havoc in Iraq."
A written statement to Mr McGeough says Dr Allawi has not visited the prison and does not carry a gun.
But McGeough stands by his claims.Paul McGeough is an Australian journalist, and the story is getting play in the Australian press. So far it doesn't seem to have caught on in the U.S. except in blogs.
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