Hussein’s Two Close Associates Executed
After former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were executed early in the morning (local time) of January 15. They were accused of leading the killing of some 148 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt in the town of Dujail, north of Baghdad. They were found guilty and faced capital punishment.
It has been sixteen days since Hussein was executed on the morning of December 30.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh held a press conference on the day and officially announced, “Execution applying to those two suspects, Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, is carried out.”
Accordingly, punishment against three convicted prisoners who were fully responsible for killing 148 local people in the village during the massacre is finally completed in earnest.
The Iraqi appellate court considered the degree of punishment against former vice-president Tahah Yashin. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at the first trial after being prosecuted in the same case, but the court decided the punishment was too light. Now the existing punishment is transferred back to the first trial court, the Iraqi high court of justice, so there is the possibility of one more execution in the future.
Execution is conducted at a building in northern Baghdad where Hussein was killed. It was used as the information board when Hussein held the reigns of power.
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