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Headlines : "War on Terror"'Chemical Ali' execution approved
Asked when Majid would be hanged, an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki told Reuters news agency: “It will be a matter of days.”
The presidency, which is made up of President Jalal Talabani and two vice-presidents, has not yet approved the hanging of Tikriti and Hashim, says the BBC’s Jim Muir in Baghdad.
The two men will remain in custody not knowing whether they are to live or die, says our correspondent.
The trio, all in the custody of American forces, were supposed to have been hanged by October.
[Posted By gaanjah_mama]Republished from BBC
He was condemned to death on genocide charges for killing 100,000 people during the 1988 Anfal campaign against the Kurds in northern Iraq.
Chemical Ali – whose real name is Hassan al-Majid – was initially sentenced to death in June last year but legal wrangling held up the case.
The execution was approved two days ago, to be carried out within 30 days.
He was convicted along with two other top officials – Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti, a senior military chief, and the former defence minister, Sultan Hashim al-Tai.
Posted by gaanjah_mama
"The global village is deteriorating at a rapid pace, and in the children of the world the result is rage." -Romeo Dallaire ____________________________________________________________ Harold: "You're good with people." ...
When a Baathist kills Kurds, it’s genocide, but when a Turk does it, it is self defense?
This is the thing I didn’t understand already when they killed Saddam, hanging him up…. very medieval …. really, do we actually live in the 21st century or what?
I fully agree Foo. They should have used lasers, or strapped him to the front of the bullet train.
all he really wanted was to be shot… but yeah frikkin lazers woulda been cool…