Sunday, November 05, 2006

GUILTY!




Sentenced to death by hanging. Story here.

Saddam was on trial with seven co-accused:

  • Awad Hamed al Bander, former chief judge in Saddam's Revolutionary Court, has been sentenced to hang
  • Saddam's half-brother Barzan al Tikriti, head of the feared Mukhabarat intelligence service, was sentenced to hang
  • Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was sentenced to life in prison
  • Three Ba'ath party officials were sentenced to 15 years in prison
  • Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid, former Ba'ath official, given15 years
  • Mizhar Abdullah Ruwayyid, former Ba'ath official, given 15 years
  • Ali Dayih Ali, former Ba'ath official, given 15 years
  • Mohammed Azawi Ali, a Ba'ath party official in Dujail, was cleared.

Saddam is in the middle of a second crimes against humanity trial and the appeal against the Dujail death sentence will start on Monday, taking two months.