Seven members of Iraq's ruling Ba'th Party were executed...

Seven members of Iraq's ruling Ba'th Party were executed on the order of President Saddam Hussein's cousin and the commander in the south, Ali Hasan al-Majid.
"Security elements and Saddam's Fedayeen ? arrested these seven around Basra for alleged laxity in fulfilling their military duties," the information centre of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution said.
They were executed at a security office building in Basra without any interrogation or probe, it added.