Posted on 07/08/2013 10:14:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Saddam Hussein’s half brother, facing the gallows for his role as chief of the regime's security service, has died of cancer in a Baghdad hospital.
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, who had received several death sentences, was transferred to the hospital from prison as his health deteriorated. His body will be handed over to his family.
Al-Hassan, a maternal half brother of Hussein, had lived in exile for a period after the 2003 invasion. He was suspected of directing and financing insurgency operations from Syria carried out by Saddam loyalists in Iraq since the fall of the regime. …
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Is this the one that lived in a hut?
God forgive me for saying this but I hope he died in agony.
Even with cancer, he died a hell of a lot easier than men his half-brother sentenced to death.
Poor baby. snicker snicker.
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