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Iraq
Iraq: Militant executed for 2003 bomb blast
2007-07-07
An alleged al-Qaida militant was executed for his role in one of the first and bloodiest bombings in Iraq, a 2003 blast that killed Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and 84 other people, a Justice Ministry official said Friday. The militant, Oras Mohammed Abdul-Aziz, was executed by hanging Tuesday in Baghdad after being sentenced to death in October, ministry Undersecretary Busho Ibrahim told the Associated Press.

The execution announcement was the first word that a suspect had been tried in the al-Hakim killing. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack - a huge car bomb in August 2003 that went off outside the Shrine of Ali in Najaf, one of Shiite Islam's holist sites - and killed al-Hakim.
Posted by:Fred

#2  You could say the individual is really hung. Maybe you get long, tall virgins. Come to think of it you don't get any virgins; that is an islamic myth.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-07-07 11:49  

#1  Is hanging a particularly bad way to go - in Islam, I mean. Does it restrict one's virgins, for example?

Not as bad as being sewn into pigskin, I'm sure.
Posted by: Bobby   2007-07-07 09:09  

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