The opposition Social Democrat Party, or PSD, Sunday, asked for the intelligence file of Omar Hayssam to be declassified and a parliamentary committee to be set up to investigate his flee out of Romania.
Hayssam was arrested in April last year on economic charges and indicted in October on terrorist charges for he allegedly masterminded the kidnapping in early 2005 of three Romanian journalists in Iraq. In April this year he was released from prison due to medical documents showing he was terminally ill from colon cancer. Authorities discovered last week they were unable to locate Hayssam on Romaniaâs territory.
PSD president Mircea Geoana said a parliamentary committee looking into the matter was the "healthier way to go, else we run the risk to be left with unanswered questions, if intelligence services and President Traian Basescu will investigate their own performance in this high-profile terrorism case."
The list of questions Geoana said should find their answer with making public Hayssamâs file would be: "was he deliberately left to flee the country after he completed his role, where did he came from, who had he worked with and for, what were his relationships with the intelligence services, what was his real role in the journalistsâ kidnapping, which was the last moment the intelligence services kept taps on him?"
The ruling National Liberal Party, or PNL, also proposed a parliamentary committee to be set up to investigate the Hayssam case, after September 1st, when the regular parliamentary session starts.
The Supreme Council for Defense is in session Monday to decide the replacements for the heads of three intelligence services which resigned Thursday in the wake of Hayssamâs flee from Romania.
The PNL said Friday it had its own nominations to make for the intelligence and counterintelligence services, short of mak
