Posted on 04/05/2006 2:05:01 AM PDT by Wiz
ARBIL, (Southern Kurdistan), April 4, 2006 (AFP) - A court in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region Tuesday sentenced to death 12 members of militant group Ansar Al-Islam for numerous killings and explosions, an Arbil judiciary official said.
"Zana Nusrat Abdel Karim, the chief of a cell of Ansar al-Islam and 11 other members were condemned to death by the criminal court of Arbil," the official told AFP.
The 12 were convicted of numerous "terrorist" activities and killings of civilians in Kurdistan's Arbil and Dahuk regions, the official said.
Karim, 35, a mechanical engineer and resident of Arbil used to carry out the killings of civilians at his home, the official added.
Another accused, Karzan Ismail Shamlah, was sentenced to life imprisonment as the prosecution was unable to prove his direct role in the crimes.
The official said the sentences were passed under Iraqi law and not just Kurdistan law.
On July 13, 2005, the Kurdistan Democratic Party-run television had aired confessions of the accused.
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they don't mess around do they
i like the iraqi justice system,
and "we" didnt belong there...HA,
wtg iraq!!!!
BTW (slightly off-topic, but not completely), we're watching Saddam's trial right now. Saddam seems to be much more well-behaved than in the past.
I'd love to know what happened when they locked the media and everyone out of that courtroom for over an hour in the last session. Saddam and his cronies have been much more docile since then.
Maybe he got some konks on the noggin from Yer Honor's gavel.
We seriously speculate that he got a bit of a butt-kicking and was told that that's what would happen if he kept acting up in court.
They do things a little differently 'round here. ;-)
ping
When is the necktie party?
It is my hope that their boss, Zana Nusrat Abdel Karim, goes last, and is forced to watch the others preced him, one at a time.
Will it be shown on Al Jazeera?
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