IRAQ: PRESIDENCY RATIFIES DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST TUNISIAN

Iraq’s Presidency ratified the death sentence against Tunisian citizen Yusri Fadhil al-Tureiqi for his involvement in the destruction of the Tomb of the Askari Imams in Samarra city in 2006, according to al-Iraqiya TV Channel. “The (Iraqi) Presidency has issued a number of Presidential decisions, ratifying the death sentences against a number of convicts.” The Tomb had been target for an explosion that destroyed it in February, 2006, followed by a wave of sectarian violence that overwhelmed Iraq’s central provinces and its capital of Baghdad.
The Tomb was followed by another explosion in June, 2007, that destroyed the remaining parts of the two golden tombs.