BAGHDAD, April 5 (UPI) -- The Sunni-backed Iraqiya slate threatened to reveal other alleged atrocities in Iraq if its leader faced action over incidents in Fallujah in 2004.
Iraqiya leader and former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is under fire for alleged atrocities committed in Fallujah in 2004. Iraqiya said Allawi, prime minister at the time, can't be held accountable for any action then because U.S. and coalition forces were in control, sources told Iraqi satellite channel al-Sumaria.
Fighting in Fallujah escalated in April 2004 after four U.S. security contractors were killed, dismembered and hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates River. Iraq accounts of the first battle of Fallujah put the number of injured or dead at more than 400. The Iraqi narrative of the second battle puts the total of dead and wounded at more than 5,000.
Iraqiya said it would reveal several "massacre" scandals that occurred at the hands of rivals in other provinces if Allawi is summoned over the Fallujah attacks, al-Sumaria adds.
Kurdish lawmakers objected to putting Fallujah on the same footing as the gassing of the Kurds by Saddam Hussein's forces in Halabja in 1988. Iraqi lawmakers recently declared the Kurdish attacks an act of genocide.
Lawmakers called off a Monday vote to declare the Fallujah an official massacre.
