So much for them being all about women's rights, eh?
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.
They do like their justice swift in Iraq, you can’t deny that. As someone from CA, with hundreds on death-row for decades, I can appreciate their efficiency.
Very glad to hear it.
I pray that this holds and that this is the beginning of the end of it.
As do I. Now if we can just get those idiot reporters out of the Green Zone bars and get them to report on the progress in the rest of the country. Fat chance of that happening, though.
Maybe Michael Yon can invite somebody from the AP along on his next trip.
This place is claming down.
Excellent. Coupled with the captured AQ documents bemoaning the loss of Anbar and other places things are beginning to look up. I hear our guys are really putting the sqeeze on the Iranian scum that's oozed over the border lately, too.
In any event, I'm glad things are quiet for you. It'd be a shame to muss those new socks running for a shelter.
Take care,
L
Fodder for those who show disappointment in the work of President Bush.
The up and coming lowdown speech by General Petraeus will show more color in the agenda of the DNC when they rebut the good news and attempt to make it appear bad.
The lack of Ramsey and the ACLU clamoring is such silent bliss.
Probably already done.
Good to hear ... oh ... Ramadan. There’s typically trouble for that, isn’t there?
Are you hearing Allawi rumors ramping up?
My prayers join with you, sweetie. Stay safe .. God bless. This is by far the most complex and maze-like military effort ... God bless and protect EVERYone on the side of good. (I still wanna see that twisted Mook ... g o n e.)
Have fun in hell, Ali. 72 virgins? All you’re getting is hellfire and damnation.
So much for them being all about women's rights, eh?
I saw this posted yesterday. Does that mean he is dead now? Today IS tomorrow.
I won't be sure until I've seen the video. Over and over and over...
Yes, they tend to ramp things up during Ramadan. We're not sure if our current lull in activity is due to some asses being kicked or if they're waiting for Ramadan to begin. In any event, we're ready for 'em.
Are you hearing Allawi rumors ramping up?
Just some murmuring here and there. Nothing wild. The people are discouraged with Maliki, and Maliki appears to respond, but time will tell. Until he gets out of bed with Iran, he won't be doing Iraq much good.
String goes into a bar.
Orders a beer.
Bartender says, “No strings allowed. I ain’t sellin’ to you, get out.”
Next day, String heads back to the bar.
Bartender says, “I told you yesterday, I ain’t sellin’ to no strings. Get out!”
The following day, String rubs his head, crosses himself, and heads back to the bar, orders a beer.
Bartender says, “Say, aren’t you that string I kicked out of here?”
String says, “String? No, I’m a frayed knot.”
It's after midnight in Iraq and we haven't heard anything.
They tend to do these things in the wee hours, so perhaps it will happen fairly soon.
I'm not going to stay up and wait, though. I'm off to sleep. ;-)
They have a right to be discouraged ... he was elected to be the leader for all of Iraq, difficult as that is. I don’t think W will put up with much more of Iran’s interloping .. or Maliki’s quibbling. Just my gut.
What a surprise
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0709088777152750.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070907/wl_csm/ounite_1
Mr. Maliki did not make the trip, but dispatched top deputies who met with Sunni sheikhs, Anbar officials, US Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, who was there as part of a tour through Iraq.
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I think he’s literally playing IN the fire now. Jeeze .. how great Biden, the partition king, was there .../NOT.
Be safe ... God bless you and EVERYone on our side .. ;)
Tip to Iraqi executioners: Make sure the batteries in you cell phone are charged.
Have a pleasant night. I'm hoping to hear that this goon gets his due sometime this evening. I'm going to open up some champagne if it happens.
Night,
L
You and tHousands of Kurds and Tikritis are waiting for the long drop.
Not to be morbid , but Ali should only have a 1 inch drop instead of the standard 6 feet.
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