IRAQ: DEATH PENALTY FOR MASTERMIND OF SHANGAL TOWN EXPLOSION

a man was sentenced to death for blowing up his car in front of the office of Kurdistan Democratic Party Brach 17 in Shangal town in Iraq in 2005, killing 15. The head of the Duhok court, Judge Muhammad Amin Sharafani, explained that the masterminds were a father and son. The father was declared innocent, the son, Rakan Abid Ahmed, was sentenced to death. “Ahmed was the leader of the Islamic Iraqi State terrorist organisation.” The decision will now head to Erbil Judicial Court.