Posted on 09/08/2007 8:33:02 AM PDT by Lurker
Baghdad, Sept 7, (VOI) – Three of the six defendants in the Anfal case will be executed by hanging on Saturday, a Saudi newspaper quoted the lawyer of former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz as saying.
"The Iraqi Criminal Court notified Ali Hassan al-Majid, alias Chemical Ali, former defense minister Sultan Hashim and former chief of staff Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti that they will be executed tomorrow," lawyer Badie Aref Ezzat told Saudi newspaper al-Watan, published on Friday.
The lawyer said he was told by the three convicts that they only wanted to meet their families before the executions.
Ezzat said that officials from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad had held a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the problem of lack of approval by the presidency council for the death sentences.
He did not indicate the outcome of the meeting. The Iraqi court found guilty five of the six defendants in the Anfal case and acquitted only one.
Death sentences were handed down against Chemical Ali, the cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, Hashim and Tikriti after they were found guilty of committing genocide against ethnic Iraqi Kurds. Saber Abdul-Aziz al-Dori, director of the former military intelligence, and Farhan Motlak al-Juburi, chief of the former intelligence in the Northern Zone, received life sentences. Former Mosul Governor Taher Tawfiq al-Aani was acquitted.
Anfal was an anti-Kurdish campaign led by the former regime between 1986 and 1989 and involved a series of military campaigns against the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters as well as the mostly Kurdish civilian population of southern Kurdistan.
Independent sources estimate there were 50,000 to more than 100,000 deaths in the campaign, in which chemical weapons were used, while Kurds claim about 182,000 people were killed.
Iraq's Criminal Court heard the case of the Anfal (or Spoils of War, taken from Surat al-Anfal in the Qur'an) campaign.
Charges against the prime defendant Saddam Hussein were dropped after his execution on December 30, 2006, four days after an appellate body upheld a death sentence by the court considering the case of al-Dujail, a small town in northern Baghdad.
The court had found Saddam and a number of his aides guilty of responsibility for the killing of 148 people following an attempt on Saddam's life in 1982, during the eight-year Iraq-Iran war.
On April 2, 2007 the chief prosecutor in the Anfal case urged the court to release al-Aani, extenuate a sentence for Dori and to hand down death sentences against the four others.
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Boy the good news keeps coming today.
Hagel gone. GA Voter ID law upheld by a CARTER Judge. Chemical Ali to hang!
...and another one gone,
ana nother one down,
another one bites the DUST!
OU OU!
Well if you are back in country might want to lay in some supplies for the bunker. Might be another long night. :-)
Personally, I think that hanging is much too merciful a punishment for this pussbag.
Chemical Ali should be given a taste of his own creations, IMO.
In any case, I'll be looking forward to those cell-phone videos.
Can we get some pre-hang-water-boarding to get some more intel on the locations of WMDs, where they went, how they were transported, who the contacts were to make it happen, confirm timelines, etc.?
Now if that slug from Idaho will just slime his way out of office it'll be a darned near perfect weekend!
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Yep...might get a tad noisy in the wee hours.
But, we're ready. Heck, Ramalamadingdong is just around the corner and we're in prep for that. ;-)
Gosh, really?
I've only been here almost four years....I'll never get this force protection thing right!
{Scrutinizing scalp for any peroxide roots that might have gone unnoticed up to now...}
Just make sure you've got on fresh socks. What if you have to go to the hospital? You wouldn't want them to see you in dirty socks! (Said in the best Mama Lurker voice...)
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So do we wear white socks for the hanging or colors?
I’d rather he was slowly descended into a vat of his favorite chemicals.
It isn’t the method of execution but where they are going afterwards. And all three know that.
These elite liberal hatriotics had better pray that Iraq doesn't become a rich and free standing nation. A rich and free Iraq might hire a lot of mercs to capture and bring these war criminals to trial in Iraq for War Crimes against innocent Iraqis.
Alright! Best use of rope in Iraq since Saddam swung!
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