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.
But Senator Biden, visiting Iraq as part of a Congressional delegation, put his proverbial finger in the collective chest of the central government in remarks he made during the ceremony.
American patience with the Iraqi government is wearing thin, he said, and it’s time for the government to do more to pull together for all of Iraq. Commitments, such as the one Thursday, are a positive sign he said, but more such commitments must be made by the central government. If not, then US forces should return home, he said.
From your link:
“If you continue, we will continue to send you our sons and our daughters to shed their blood with you and for you,” said Biden. “If you decide you cannot live together, let us know.... we can say goodbye now.”
Biden suggested that the Iraqi government could move faster (than the US 200 years ago) toward establishing a functioning central government.
“Maybe you will do better than we did, but respectfully I doubt it,” he told the packed room.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Enjoy your stay in hell, Ali.
I can NEVER tell a joke right! LOL!
And now, Chemical Ali will join him and Arafat in their special place in hell. I wonder if the DUmmies are already preparing a candlelight vigil.
Now al-Majid hangs...he's swinging tomorrow
Long overdue...he's hanging tomorrow
Al-Majid will hang tomorrow...Kurds will not be feeling any sorrow, not all all
His neck's gonna stretch tomorrow...no time to return things that he borrowed, so don't call
Tomorrow, tomorrow, he's leaving tomorrow...goodbye, Chemical Ali
Tomorrow, tomorrow, he's leaving tomorrow...goodbye, Chemical Ali
Tomorrow, tomorrow, he's leaving tomorrow...goodbye, Chemical, Chemical Ali
Chemical Ali
In Jakarta the locals pig out promptly after evening prayers, then head over to the techno nightclubs by the thousands (2,000 to 5,000 per club, no joke) and huff on packs of Djarum clove cigarettes until 5AM. Then a mass exodus to chow down before sunrise, check in for morning prayers, and back to bed for a couple hours.
One of the staffers was a family man, so he said he accomplished all of the above obligations minus the techno clubs right there at home. His wife didn't like his post-sundown ritual of one pot of black coffee and hotboxing stinky Djarums for 30 minutes nonstop (so he told me).
Lots of folks have a problem with weight gain during Ramadadadaveeda.
The Jr. Jihadis get totally mental about people going to the techno clubs, but they can't get through the intimidating security (big knives and MP-5s) and there's always a political/military "interest" in the places that stay open. They don't wannna mess with Army businesses.
Too nice an end - unless there is a vat of acid under the trapdoor and the rope stretches.
Like a bungee cord! LOL!
Democrats are fools and liars. It's up to us to do the heavy lifting.
If Gore were President these guys would still be making WMD for their terrorist friends.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I hope Adam Gadahn is next to do the Texas rope dance.
It's very similar here, only instead of going to techno-clubs, the terrorists launch stuff after pigging out.
Well, they have in the three years past, anyway.
Once Iraq is settled down (and it seems to be getting there), I can see the Iraqis doing very similar things. The Iraqis nobody hears about (which is most of them) tend to be party animals and much more secular in their behavior than their Iranian, Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian neighbors.
So, how are you liking Jakarta? Better gig than Iraq, eh? ;-)
He’s not dead enough.
That is exactly what I tell the rabid rat women out here on the Left Coast. They just snarl and have no reply.
Oh, this was before Iraq and only for a short gig, but during most of 2003 Ramadamadingaling.
Jakarta is a big dirty, funky, smelly, hot and humid city. I loved it.
Had to be very careful with the nightlife though, lots of 12AM-2AM "early bird" departures back to the hotel, and a few of those 5AM deals.
Jakarta definitely is more lively that Saigon or Bangkok (both with 1AM shutdowns), I heard KL might be its only competitor in SE Asia. Funny the two Muslim countries being more lively than anything in the USA or Asia.
lastly, a DC cable station that's devoted to local ethnic shows was running the indonesian hour recently, interviewing a bunch of indonesian "expat" 20-somethings, and when asked about DC's culture they agreed that "It's a little dull."
Yes, I understand. It really is.
It is hard for me to believe biden had the arrogance to tell the Iraqis that we expect them to set up their government faster than we have done with ours. Look what we’ve got, pelosi and her gang of theives stealing votes, a loud mouth biden telling an emerging democratic country to hurry up. I cannot fathom the pure arrogant thought process of someone like these people.
Whiskey, or Bourbon???
I say both...
Wait til you read this .... have a drink, a hammer, and bandages ready.
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