Fugitive Iraqi MP arrested over parliament bombing

A former Iraqi lawmaker accused of masterminding the 2007 bombing attack on Iraq's parliament has been arrested in the Malaysian capital.

Sunni lawmaker Mohammed al-Daini fled Iraq and has been in hiding since Iraq's parliament voted to lift his immunity in February.

Malaysia's Immigration Department director-general, Abdul Rahman Othman, announced on Friday that Daini had been arrested at Kuala Lumpur's international airport last Saturday holding a fake passport.

"The immigration officer at the departure checkpoint stopped him after checks revealed that the passport he had belonged to someone else," Abdul Rahman told the New Straits Times newspaper.

The daily said that Daini entered Malaysia on October 8 on a British passport and was being held in custody at an immigration detention center to be deported later.

Daini is believed to have originally fled to Syria following the deadly explosion of the parliament's canteen, which left eight people killed, before moving to Egypt and then on to Malaysia.

On February 25, Iraqi authorities barred Daini from leaving to Jordan but he was not arrested due to his parliamentary immunity. Later in the day, parliament voted to lift his immunity, by which time he had fled.

Iraqi media have recently broadcast confessions by a nephew and a security guard of Daini's, admitting to have carried out several attacks for the former deputy including the parliament bombing.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108829§ionid=351020201.