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| Iraq |
| Iraqi Court Sentences More Terrorists |
| 2006-05-23 |
| CCCI Convicts 12 BAGHDAD, Iraq – The Central Criminal Court of Iraq convicted 12 security detainees May 10 through May 16 for various crimes including organizing, heading, leading, joining armed groups, murder and possessing illegal weapons. The trial court found Mahdi Ahmed Musa Ali al Jabouri guilty of violating Article 194 and Article 406 of the Iraqi Penal Code for organizing, heading, leading, joining armed groups and murder, and sentenced him to death. Coalition Forces apprehended him for leading a terror cell in Mosul. The defendant said he believes in killing Coalition Forces, Iraqi Police and Iraqi National Guard members because he says they are not enforcing God’s will. The defendant has regularly kidnapped people, interrogated them and then killed them, frequently in front of their families. He has attacked Iraqi Police stations with sniper shots and RPGs, stolen their computers and weapons and set the stations on fire. The defendant confessed to the murder of an Iraqi National Guard colonel in order to discourage people from supporting the Iraqi government. The trial court found Kareem Abdellah Sabbar, Munzir Ali Khamis, Qasey Hamid Abid and Khaleel Abid Al-Hussein Ali guilty ... sentenced to life imprisonment. Coalition Forces apprehended them after searching their house where they found five 122mm mortars, five functional charges, a burlap sack with five types of rounds and increments for other mortars and one AK-47 with four magazines. Coalition Forces returned to the site the next day and completed a detailed search of the property where they found a kidnapped Egyptian man who had been held there for 18 days and had been severely beaten and tortured. .... To date, the CCCI has held 1069 trials of insurgents suspected of anti-Iraqi and anti-Coalition activities threatening the security of Iraq and targeting MNF-I. These proceedings have resulted in 960 individual convictions with sentences ranging up to death. |
| Posted by:glenmore |
| #7 I think the Iraqis need to appreciate some of their more appropriate traditions and bring back Hassan with the really big scimitar for public beheadings of scum like these. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2006-05-23 17:58 |
| #6 maybe the 9th court, Ginsberg, Kennedy, and Arlen Specter will cite this foreign law and support capital punishment? Selective appreciation, I guess |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-23 16:45 |
| #5 Nice to see the Iraqi judges clearing their docket backlog. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-05-23 16:12 |
| #4 State needed to do that, I think, to prevent an outcry internationally. Let the Iraqis do as they see fit with these murderous thugs. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-05-23 14:02 |
| #3 State Department abolishes death penalty, Iraqi government reinstates it: The Iraqi authorities have hanged 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency, the first execution of militants since the US-led invasion. "The competent authorities have today carried out the death sentences of 13 terrorists," a cabinet statement said. The name of only one of those executed was released. Shuqair Farid, a former policeman, allegedly confessed he had enlisted Iraqis to carry out attacks. Three convicted murderers were hanged last September. The US-led coalition abolished the death penalty in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but it was re-instated during the handover to Iraqi control in June 2004. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-05-23 14:01 |
| #2 NS: Given the tastes of people over there they should definitely put the executions on pay-per-view. Anybody know the method of execution? Hanging. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-05-23 13:59 |
| #1 Given the tastes of people over there they should definitely put the executions on pay-per-view. Anybody know the method of execution? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-23 13:43 |