Change bloc warns of inciting nationalism in “Bedaiwi’s case”

The bloc warned from what it called as “twisting " the path of the case and being exploited by some parties to incite nationalism and sectarianism , calling not to be drawn by these "despicable methods " .

Bedaiwi , a journalist and university professor who runs the Office of American Free Iraq Radio in Baghdad was killed yesterday in unclear circumstances by a Kurdish officer in the presidential regiment in Jadriya fortified area in Baghdad.

The head of Change bloc in the Iraqi parliament , Lateef Sheikh Mustafa told “Shafaq News" that “ his bloc warns of some political parties that want to exploit this issue to " distort the course of the case by inciting nationalism and sectarianism for political and electoral purposes ."

He called the investigative and judicial authorities to " conduct a fair and transparent investigation so that the perpetrator would be punished “.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has entered the area after Bedaiwi’s death in the presidential palaces along with senior officials and ordered to arrest the offender.

Maliki's opponents explained his sudden move as he wants to shine his image ahead of elections on 30 of next April to look like the defender of the law despite the lack of disclosure of the killers of dozens of journalists who died during the past eight years in which al-Maliki had spent them at the head of the government.

Mustafa called on the Iraqi people "not to be dragged and fooled by these exposed methods of some of the political blocs ," stressing "the importance of dealing with the case like any other criminal case so that justice take its natural course ."