TIKRIT COURT SENTENCES AL-QAEDA-LINKED GROUP LEADER TO DEATH

the Criminal Court in Tikrit, Iraq, sentenced an al-Qaeda-linked group member to death, a police source said. Adnan Faraj, a Dhuluyia resident, was the military commander of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq in Salah al-Din. The source pointed out the ruling was based on item four of the counter-terrorism law after the suspect pleaded guilty to killing an Iraqi army officer in Dhuluyia town during the summer of 2005.