Your source says that 4 of 19 were convicted in absentia. Are the other 15 ruling Iraq from their jail cells, or from beyond the grave?Their sponsors in the Al Dawa Islamic Terrorist Party, a Party who have openly claimed responsibility for Anti-American Terror attacks, are Ruling Iraq from their seats in the Iraqi Parliament.
Not only has the Party splintered several times over the past 25 years - making the party of those bombers in 1984 and today's party hardly identical - the current faction of the Dawa party in Iraq won less than 4% of the vote in Iraq.
They do not rule Iraq any more than Ralph Nader and his Greens rule the US.