Clwyd escapes ambush attack
Labour MP for Cynon Valley, South Wales, Ann Clwyd, the government’s special advisor on human rights in Iraq, has narrowly avoided an ambush attempt near Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
Shots were fired at a convoy of eight cars and military vehicles in which she was travelling, Mrs. Clwyd reported
No one was hurt in the attack.
Mrs. Clwyd, a supporter of Labour’s backing for the US-led war against Iraq, previously compared Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship to the brutality of the Khmer Rouge and Nazi Germany.
She is expected back in the UK in seven days, after spending a week in Iraq investigating human rights’ abuses.
She said she was ‘none the worse’ for the incident.
Commenting on the experience, she said: ‘Shots were certainly fired at people coming towards us.
‘We stopped short of that. We were given a warning.
‘Then the Peshmerga, the Kurdish fighters, and the Americans went after them.’
Mrs. Clwyd is a founder of Indict, an organisation which campaigned to bring international law to bear on Iraq’s dethroned leader.
