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BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 28 (UPI) -- Iraqi commander Ali Hassan al-Majeed ordered seven Baath officials in Basra executed on charges of "treason," Lebanon's al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported Friday. The newspaper also said al-Majeed dismissed the Baath party leader and replaced the military commander.

MAR. 27, 2003: AMERICAN PHILISTINES? Simon Jenkins, a columnist for the London Times, says that the war in Iraq is being conducted by a bunch of Philistines. Says the culturally concerned Mr. Jenkins, there are a huge number of historic treasures in Iraq. "The Art Newspaper has published an awesome list of Iraqi sites near bases, factories and scientific works, some of them damaged by bombing errors in 1991." Mr. Jenkins would apparently allow Saddam sanctuary for himself and his troops anywhere there is art or history, and he would add to the list of America's crimes the crime of...

Signs of U.S. POWs found at hospital NBC: Bloodied female U.S. uniforms found at hospital March 28 -- U.S. Marines now control a hospital where they say they found bloodied U.S. uniforms. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports. NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES AN NASIRIYAH, March 28 — U.S. Marines who secured a hospital that had been used by Iraqi forces later found several bloodied U.S. uniforms worn by female soldiers, NBC’s Kerry Sanders reported Friday from the hospital. The find suggested that Iraq had held several POWs at the hospital, which is in An Nasiriyah, a town where at least five...

Mentally ill man executed 03/27/2003 Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A mentally ill murderer spared from execution five months ago by a last-minute reprieve was executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing a woman during an attempted rape. "None of this should have happened and now that I'm dying there is nothing left to worry about," James Colburn said in a brief final statement as he was strapped to the death chamber gurney. "I know it was a mistake. I have no one to blame but myself," he said. Colburn added that it was "no big deal" about whether he knew the...

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar -- Iraqi paramilitary forces are seizing children and threatening Iraqi men with execution if they don't fight for the regime, U.S. and British officials said Thursday. The U.S. commanders around the south-central city of Najaf reported the development to Gen. Tommy Franks, who is commanding forces in the Gulf, said U.S. Central Command spokesman Jim Wilkinson. "Once again, we see the regime's terrorist tactics, where they bring the innocent onto the battlefield as they try to do anything to stay in power," he said. He gave no further details. U.S. troops have engaged in fierce firefights...

<p>March 27, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - U.S. officials are carefully studying reports that at least three GIs were "executed" - shot between the eyes - after surrendering with their hands in the air to Iraqi forces.</p> <p>Pentagon sources said new details were emerging about the incident Sunday in which 12 soldiers were caught in an ambush in a town south of Nasiriyah.</p>

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The enlisted man who allegedly opened fire after rolling grenades into an officers' tent on Sunday morning, killing a Lehigh Valley native, will be tried before a regular military court and likely will face the death penalty, according to legal experts. The Army has launched a formal investigation into the murder of Army Capt. Christopher Seifert, a Army captain in the 101st Airborne Division. A grenade attack followed by a round of fire took the life of the 27-year-old officer and wounded 15 other soldiers at 1:22 a.m. Sunday at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait. Pentagon spokesmen and Army officials would not...

Mentally ill condemned killer to face execution LIVINGSTON (AP) — The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to grant clemency Monday to a mentally ill condemned killer facing execution later this week. James Colburn doesn't deny killing the 55-year-old woman as she resisted a rape attempt at his apartment, but his lawyers contend he should be spared because he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Colburn, 43, set to die Wednesday evening, was turned down by the parole board in a 16-1 vote with one abstention. Colburn's lawyer, James Rytting, acknowledged Mon day that he didn't expect the panel to rule...

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TEXT ONLY 23 Mar 2003 19:15 UTC About VOA BROADCAST LANGUAGES BROADCASTS   Latest NewscastNews Now LiveOther WebcastsProgram ScheduleNews Now-        ProgrammingVOA TV PROGRAMS TOPICS   Arts & Culture Business Health & Medicine Science & Tech Sports POLICY & ANALYSIS   EditorialsFocus INSIDE VOA NEWS CorrespondentsPronunciation GuideContact VOANEWS Bodies of US Soldiers Indicate Possible Execution, say US officialsAlex BelidaPentagon23 Mar 2003, 20:11 UTC Listen to Alex Belida's Report (RealAudio)  Belida Report - Download 118k (RealAudio)   Defense officials say the bodies of what may be American soldiers shown in a controversial Arab television broadcast have wounds indicating they were probably executed....

Another inmate set to become Texas execution No. 300 03/19/2003 Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A week after condemned killer Delma Banks eluded the death chamber with a last-minute Supreme Court reprieve, another convicted murderer faced the distinction of becoming the 300th Texas inmate executed since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment 20 years ago. Keith Bernard Clay, 35, of Baytown, was set to die Thursday night for killing a convenience store clerk during a robbery in 1994 in his hometown just east of Houston. "I have peace of mind," he said last week from a tiny cage in...

Death row convict granted hearing of mental retardation 03/13/2003 Associated Press AUSTIN - A Dallas man on death row for 13 years for killing a security guard was granted a new hearing by a Texas appeals court Wednesday to address claims that he is mentally retarded. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that people with mental retardation cannot be executed because it violates the constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Gayland Bradford, 34, was convicted in the shooting death of Brian Edward Williams, 29, during a robbery at a south Dallas convenience store in 1988. At Bradford's...

Texas to execute 300th inmate 03/12/2003 Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas - In the 22 years since convicted killer Delma Banks arrived on Texas death row, he's watched 299 prisoners be taken away for execution. Barring a U.S. Supreme Court reprieve, he'll be No. 300 Wednesday night. "You're talking to men, one day they move them out and they don't return," Banks, 44, condemned for a fatal shooting near Texarkana, recently told the Houston Chronicle. In spending more than half of his life awaiting lethal injection, Banks has been on death row longer than the 16-year-old victim in his case,...

Execution of repeat burglar set 03/11/2003 Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Death row inmate Bobby Glen Cook admits to being a thief but insisted he was no killer. "I've never been violent," says Cook, 41, condemned for the 1993 shooting death of an East Texas fisherman. "Just thefts." Cook, with an extensive criminal record, faced lethal injection Tuesday night for the murder of Edwin Earl Holder, 42, of Buffalo. Also Online Texas Executions: Coverage from TXCN.com Offender profile: Bobby Glen Cook Related links Texas Department of Criminal Justice Scheduled executions Offenders on death row At the time of the...

'No protest' on Osama execution 07mar03 AUSTRALIA would not intervene if Osama bin Laden was to be executed, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has said. The Australian Government opposed capital punishment in principle, but its stance did not necessarily apply to the al-Qaeda mastermind, Mr Downer said today. His comments follow Prime Minister John Howard's statement today that he thought everyone would welcome bin Laden's death. Mr Howard told American viewers that if bin Laden was caught, he would be dealt with in accordance with United States law and that provided for capital punishment. "The Government doesn't support the death penalty...

Feb. 24, 2003, 9:16AM `I'm trying to get off death row' Inmate seeking stay with retardation claim By RACHEL GRAVES Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Christobal Perez / Chronicle Death row inmate Richard Head claims he is mentally retarded and therefore should not be executed for the 1997 slaying of a woman in a wheelchair. Prosecutors say Williams has low-average intelligence but is not retarded. LIVINGSTON -- Squashed in a tiny, barred cell and wearing a white prison jumpsuit, Richard Head Williams displayed a shy, gaptoothed smile and posed for a photographer as though he were a fashion model, not a...

Two Central Intelligence Agency operatives have been captured by Marxist guerrillas in Colombia, it appeared yesterday, while another two were dead, perhaps assassinated, after a light aircraft they were travelling in crash-landed. United States officials were prepared only to admit that one of their aircraft, carrying four American citizens and a Colombian, was forced to make an emergency landing in the guerrilla-dominated southern province of Caqueta. "Somewhere during the flight, the engine cut out and they were looking for a place to put down," said a State Department spokesman, Chip Barclay. Sources in the Colombian defence ministry have indicated there...

LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- The state has executed a man convicted of stabbing and strangling an 18-year-old college student after he lured her to a bogus job interview. Richard E. Fox, 47, died by injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He had confessed to the slaying, and his attorneys last week said there were no legal issues left to review. It was Ohio's sixth execution since the state resumed the death penalty in 1999. "He's been very upbeat, spending the last few hours with his family members," said Andrea Dean, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, hours...