Alaa Hussein, the former head of Iraq's puppet occupation...

Alaa Hussein, the former head of Iraq's puppet occupation government in Kuwait, appealed against his death sentence in a final bid to escape possible execution for treason. On July 9 a Kuwaiti court of appeal upheld the death sentence against him after on May 3 a criminal court rejected an attempt by Hussein to reverse a death sentence passed against him in absentia in 1993 for treason and cooperating with Baghdad. He returned from self-imposed exile in Norway in January believing he would be pardoned. Hussein insisted on his innocence, saying Iraq forced him to lead a puppet regime.