IRAQ: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HEAD OF SADDAM’S TRIBE

five men were sentenced to death in Iraq for murdering the head of Saddam Hussein’s Sunni tribe, the victim’s son told AFP.
“The special criminal court in Salaheddin issued a death sentence on the five convicts who killed my father,” said Manaf al-Nida, son of Sheikh Ali al-Nida.
Manaf al-Nida said that one of the men sentenced to death was an Egyptian man who worked for his father.
Sheikh Ali al-Nida and his driver were killed after insurgents planted a bomb in their car which exploded between the town of Tikrit and Saddam’s birthplace of Awja.
Nida was the head of the Al-Baijat tribe whose home turf is in and around the province of Salaheddin, of which Tikrit is the capital.
He was a member of a delegation representing Saddam’s tribe who collected the ousted leader’s body after his execution in December 2006 for burial in Awja.