Posted on 07/26/2023 7:34:42 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1992, 42* Baghdad merchants who were among several hundred rounded up over the preceding 48 hours were executed at Saddam Hussein‘s command at Abu Ghraib prison and the Interior Ministry compound.
A year and change on from the close of the Gulf War, Iraq’s economy was groaning under a murderous program of economic sanctions.
The merchants were accused of profiteering by manipulating food prices — a chilling threat to businessmen, but one that had little power to arrest the wreck of Iraq’s economy. Prices for food, and everything else, were spiking under the blockade.
“Hardly any Iraqi trader sent anything to his country from our warehouse” after the executions, according to a Jordanian exporter quoted by Reuters.** “They tell us even if the goods are given to them for free, they are not ready to risk their lives.”
These executions have put some former Iraqi officials at risk of their lives in American-occupied Iraq....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
The executions will continue until the economy improves..............
Don’t give Brandon any ideas.
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