Exiled Iraqi dissidents, including Nizar al-Khazraji, plan to establish a "higher council of national salvation," an aide of the Denmark-based former general said Monday.
"The higher council of national salvation, which will be formed within days in Denmark, will include 24 members, most of whom held key posts in the Iraqi military or the ruling Baath Party" before their defection, the source told AFP.
Members of the proposed council are expected to include ex-military intelligence chief Wafik al-Samarrai, who has been in exile in London since 1997, according to the same source. Khazraji himself told the news agency it was "premature" to go into details about the planned body and added that any such move, "will be announced in due course".
Khazraji and Samarrai stayed away from a conference of former Iraqi army officers held in London in mid-July which formed a 15-member "military council" to spearhead efforts to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. (Albawaba.com)
