IRAQ. PRESIDENT URGES DELAY SADDAM CASE EXECUTIONS
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said the government should delay the execution of two of Saddam Hussein’s
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said the government should delay the execution of two of Saddam Hussein’s co-defendants.
Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court, were sentenced to death with Saddam. They were found guilty, along with the former Iraqi leader, of involvement in killing 148 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader in the northern town of Dujail. "In my opinion we should wait on the executions," Talabani said at a news conference with US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad. "We should examine the situation," he said without elaborating.
Talabani said he did not know when Ibrahim and al-Bandar would be hanged.
Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court, were sentenced to death with Saddam. They were found guilty, along with the former Iraqi leader, of involvement in killing 148 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader in the northern town of Dujail. "In my opinion we should wait on the executions," Talabani said at a news conference with US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad. "We should examine the situation," he said without elaborating.
Talabani said he did not know when Ibrahim and al-Bandar would be hanged.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Afp, 10/01/2007)