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May 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Hashemi, who is being tried in absentia in a Baghdad court, said on Friday that he does not trust the standard of justice in Iraq and that he would not return to Baghdad because he believes that charges against him are politically motivated.
“I have great…mistrust about the standard of justice,” he said at a press conference in Turkey.
He also questioned the legitimacy of his trial by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI), stressing that the federal court should have handled the case because he is a sitting vice president.
“This in itself is a straightforward violation of the constitution,” he said.
His comments came one day after the first session of his trial was held in absentia in Baghdad. The trial has been postponed until next week after his lawyers asked for the delay.
Hashemi and some of his associates are charged with killing six judges and several others senior officials in post-invasion Iraq.
According to Iraqi authorities, Hashemi is linked to a total of 150 killings and it is possible that further charges will be brought against him.
Hashemi has been accused of involvement in bomb attacks against government and security officials over the past years and on December 19, 2011, an investigative committee within the Iraqi Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant for Hashemi after three of his bodyguards confessed to taking orders from him to carry out the terrorist attacks.
Hashemi had been holed up in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region since terrorist charges were brought against him. He is currently in Turkey.
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