Political asylum for fearful Iraqi watchdog

Margaret Griffis, September 03, 2007

According to news source IraqSlogger, a high-level official from a watchdog group has been granted political asylum in the U.S. Although the tip hasn’t been confirmed as yet, IraqSlogger notes that it comes from a "well-placed source."

The controversial figure granted the asylum, says IraqSlogger, may be Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, who heads the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity. Judge al-Radhi and his family have received numerous threats already, and the fear of retaliation is great as many of al-Radhi’s colleagues and underlings have been murdered due to their work rooting out corruption in Iraq’s ministries.



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2 Responses to “Political asylum for fearful Iraqi watchdog”

  1. rizz
    September 4th, 2007 at 9:14 am

    I work in Iraq and I do not know a single Iraqi that does not want to get the hell out of there. We have managd to destroy a whole country in just four years. That is reality and we must live with that.

    Rizz

  2. Marycatherine Barton
    September 6th, 2007 at 11:57 am

    No wonder our U.S., and our satellite, Israel, have so quickly become the most hated countries in the world. S**t!