The raids on the home and offices of Adnan al Dulaimi, leader of the Accordance Front, the largest Sunni bloc in parliament, highlight the real need to hold elections in Iraq. After discovering weapons and a car bomb near Dulaimi’s offices on Thursday, U.S. and Iraqi troops conducted a follow-on raid at his home on Friday turned up another car bomb. Dulaimi’s son was arrested along with 29 others. One of Dulaimi’s bodyguards held the keys to the car. Reuters has the details:
Seven people were arrested on Thursday at Dulaimi’s office and 29, including Dulaimi’s son Mekki, were seized in a raid early on Friday at Dulaimi’s house, said Brigadier General Qassim Moussawi, security spokesman for Baghdad. “We have also found quantities of weapons and uniforms of the army and police at the home of Dr. al-Dulaimi,” he told Reuters. “Dulaimi’s bodyguards are suspected of having links to car bombs and killings. There are confessions against them.”… Moussawi said the car bomb was found when security forces chased a suspected fugitive involved in a shooting into Dulaimi’s compound. The U.S. military said one of Dulaimi’s guards had a key to the car that was rigged as a bomb. Two bystanders were hurt when one of the guards escaped, and five American soldiers and one bystander were hurt in the controlled blast when the car was destroyed, the U.S. military said in a statement.
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