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Iraq
Iraq hands down death penalty for IS terrorist over deadly car bomb blast
2019-04-25
Consequences can sting a bit — briefly.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi court has sentenced an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
holy warrior to death over his involvement in a deadly car kaboom in the province of Diyala.

"The Diyala Criminal Court handed down a death penalty
for a terrorist after he admitted booby trapping a vehicle to target a funeral ceremony in Abu Sayda district in Diyala, an kaboom which left scores of civilians dead and maimed," Alghad Press website quoted the Supreme Judicial Council media center as saying in a press statement on Wednesday.

"The court ruling was issued pursuant to article ¼ of the anti-terrorism law," added the statement.

The law empowers courts to convict people who are believed to have helped jihadists even if they are not accused of carrying out attacks.
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