Iraqi Islamic Party denies explosion in its HQ in Baghdad's Amiriya district

Iraqi Islamic Party denies explosion in its HQ in Baghdad's Amiriya district
11/29/2011 11:59 AM

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi Islamic Party on Tuesday denied reports about an explosion in its headquarters in northwest Baghdad's Amiriya

district and the detention of some of its workers, confirming that the report "is completely incorrect."

The Party, in a press statement on Tuesday said that "the position that Baghdad Operations spoke about does not belong to the Party and has no

relationship whatsoever with it," calling on the official sources to "check such reports before announcing them," adding that "the motive of publishing

such reports, aims at sticking charges against the Party, in order to undermine its reputation."

Noteworthy is that the semi-official al-Iraqiya TV Satellite Channel had quoted the Baghdad Operations as reporting early in the day that one of the

headquarters of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Amiriya district had witnessed the injury of one of its members, while trying to launch a rocket, thing that

led to the chopping of one of his hands, adding that another rocket had been found, ready for launching, along with the existence of other explosives,

during the inspection of the Party's headquarters in Amiriya district.