Iraqi Shi'ite leader recovers from lung cancer
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (Reuters): Senior Iraqi Shi'ite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, recently returned from Iran, said Monday that he had recovered from lung cancer.
Hakim heads the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the biggest party in Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated government. He was seen on television greeting followers and Shi'ite Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi.
"Thank God I have been healed completely as the doctors showed and told us, and thank God we finished the various and difficult therapy phases," Hakim said in an Iraqi television interview.
Hakim heads the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the biggest party in Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated government. He was seen on television greeting followers and Shi'ite Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi.
"Thank God I have been healed completely as the doctors showed and told us, and thank God we finished the various and difficult therapy phases," Hakim said in an Iraqi television interview.