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March 11th, 2009, 01:27 PM
Tariq Aziz Gets 15 Years For 42 Deaths
March 11th, 2009
From the admittedly biased BBC News:
Tariq Aziz guilty of Iraq murders
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Tariq Aziz, for many years the public face of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime, has been jailed for 15 years for his role in the execution of 42 merchants.
Aziz had denied any role in the summary trials of the men accused in 1992 of profiteering during economic sanctions.
Two of Saddam Hussein’s half-brothers were also found guilty and sentenced to death by a court in Baghdad.
Another top official, Ali Hassan al-Majid - commonly known as Chemical Ali - was jailed for 15 years.
Two other Iraqi officials were jailed for six and 15 years, while a former governor of the Iraqi central bank was acquitted.
The trial is not viewed by Iraqis as a big political event, the BBC’s Mike Sergeant in Baghdad says…
This is Aziz’s first conviction in the controversial Iraqi High Tribunal process, which has been criticised by human rights groups on a number of counts…
‘Flawed’ process
On Wednesday, two of Saddam Hussein’s half-brothers - former presidential adviser Watban Ibrahim and former intelligence chief Sabawi Ibrahim - were sentenced to death by hanging.
Co-defendant Majid was jailed for 15 years. Majid had faced his fourth capital conviction in the merchants’ case, having already been sentenced in the Anfal campaign against the Kurds in the late 1980s, the crushing of a Shia uprising in 1991 and the 1999 killings.
Saddam Hussein himself was hanged in December 2006 in a separate case.
Human Rights Watch issued a report into the trial of Saddam Hussein, concluding that the process was flawed and its verdict unsound because of "serious administrative, procedural and substantive legal defects".
Notice that the BBC suggests that all of these convictions are the result of a ‘flawed process.’
Based solely on the word of the terrorist sympathizers at Human Rights Watch.
This is what passes for journalism in the 21st century.http://sweetness-light.com/archive/tariq-aziz-gets-15-years-for-42-executions
March 11th, 2009
From the admittedly biased BBC News:
Tariq Aziz guilty of Iraq murders
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Tariq Aziz, for many years the public face of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime, has been jailed for 15 years for his role in the execution of 42 merchants.
Aziz had denied any role in the summary trials of the men accused in 1992 of profiteering during economic sanctions.
Two of Saddam Hussein’s half-brothers were also found guilty and sentenced to death by a court in Baghdad.
Another top official, Ali Hassan al-Majid - commonly known as Chemical Ali - was jailed for 15 years.
Two other Iraqi officials were jailed for six and 15 years, while a former governor of the Iraqi central bank was acquitted.
The trial is not viewed by Iraqis as a big political event, the BBC’s Mike Sergeant in Baghdad says…
This is Aziz’s first conviction in the controversial Iraqi High Tribunal process, which has been criticised by human rights groups on a number of counts…
‘Flawed’ process
On Wednesday, two of Saddam Hussein’s half-brothers - former presidential adviser Watban Ibrahim and former intelligence chief Sabawi Ibrahim - were sentenced to death by hanging.
Co-defendant Majid was jailed for 15 years. Majid had faced his fourth capital conviction in the merchants’ case, having already been sentenced in the Anfal campaign against the Kurds in the late 1980s, the crushing of a Shia uprising in 1991 and the 1999 killings.
Saddam Hussein himself was hanged in December 2006 in a separate case.
Human Rights Watch issued a report into the trial of Saddam Hussein, concluding that the process was flawed and its verdict unsound because of "serious administrative, procedural and substantive legal defects".
Notice that the BBC suggests that all of these convictions are the result of a ‘flawed process.’
Based solely on the word of the terrorist sympathizers at Human Rights Watch.
This is what passes for journalism in the 21st century.http://sweetness-light.com/archive/tariq-aziz-gets-15-years-for-42-executions