Chemical Ali, Hashim, Tikriti to hang tomorrow – Saudi paper

[sabra]

Source: Voice of Iraq

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.

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[soothsayer]

1. super. should further inspire more 10 to 19 y.o. kids to hang themselves

[Eugene]

2. Iraq President Objects to Execution

Source: Associated Press

Iraq President Objects to Execution

Friday September 7, 2007 4:16 PM

By YAHYA BARZANJI

Associated Press Writer

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) - The Iraqi president raised
objections Friday to the planned execution of Saddam
Hussein's former defense minister, who is due to be
hanged with two other former regime officials for their
roles in a massacre of Kurds.

President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, said former Defense
Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai deserved to be
spared because he had been carrying out orders
under threat of death by Saddam and because he had
engaged in official contact with the Kurdish
community under the ousted regime.

Earlier this week, an Iraqi appeals court upheld the
death sentences imposed against al-Tai, along with Ali
Hassan al-Majid, who gained the nickname “Chemical Ali”
after poison gas attacks on Kurdish towns in the 1980s,
and Hussein Rashid Mohammed, former deputy director
of operations for the Iraqi Armed Forces.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6904081,00.html

[daleo]

3. At least "Depleted Uranium" Bush is safe. n/t

[EFerrari]

4. Is VOI a US propaganda rag? Does anyone know? n/t