jagalman
20-03-2007, 08:39 AM
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BAGHDAD, March 20--Iraq hanged Saddam Hussein's former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan before dawn for crimes against humanity on Tuesday.
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Taha yassin hand sign doing pyramid before hanging
He is the fourth ex-regime figure, including Saddam himself, to be executed for the killing of 148 Iraqis from the town of Dujail after the ousted dictator escaped an assassination bid there in 1982.
Bassem Ridha, senior advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the execution took place at an undisclosed place at 3:05 am (0005 GMT) Tuesday.
Ridha said the execution was smooth.
Lawyer Badie Aref said on Monday that the US military had allowed Ramadan, who was aged almost 80, to call his family.
It was the Popular Army created by Ramadan which was accused of rounding up suspects after the attempt on Saddam's life. In all 148 were arrested but never seen again.
Saddam himself was hanged for the Dujail killings on December 30 and was followed to the gallows by two henchmen, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Ahmed al-Bandar, on January 15.
Ridha said Ramadan's clothes and other belongings were handed over to his lawyer and his body would be delivered to relatives later on Tuesday.
An appeals court had on Thursday confirmed the death sentence first imposed against Ramadan on February 12 by the Iraqi High Tribunal which is trying former regime officials.
He was originally given a life sentence in November, but the prosecution filed a petition demanding that he too be executed.
Ramadan, born in 1938, was captured by Kurdish fighters in his birthplace of Mosul in northern Iraq in August 2003 and turned over to US forces.
Born into a peasant family in the late 1930s, Ramadan worked in a bank before joining the Baath party in 1956 and participating in a 1968 coup that returned it to power.
In 1970, he formed the Popular Army, the Baath Party's armed wing, and was a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, the country's highest authority under Saddam.
He became vice president in 1991 and was notorious as much for the brutality of the regime as for his own language.
As industry minister in the 1970s, he once declared: "I don't know anything about industry but what I do know that anyone who does not work hard will be executed."
http://english.alalam.ir/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=018030120070320083228
BAGHDAD, March 20--Iraq hanged Saddam Hussein's former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan before dawn for crimes against humanity on Tuesday.
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7678/78826016my0.jpg
Taha yassin hand sign doing pyramid before hanging
He is the fourth ex-regime figure, including Saddam himself, to be executed for the killing of 148 Iraqis from the town of Dujail after the ousted dictator escaped an assassination bid there in 1982.
Bassem Ridha, senior advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the execution took place at an undisclosed place at 3:05 am (0005 GMT) Tuesday.
Ridha said the execution was smooth.
Lawyer Badie Aref said on Monday that the US military had allowed Ramadan, who was aged almost 80, to call his family.
It was the Popular Army created by Ramadan which was accused of rounding up suspects after the attempt on Saddam's life. In all 148 were arrested but never seen again.
Saddam himself was hanged for the Dujail killings on December 30 and was followed to the gallows by two henchmen, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Ahmed al-Bandar, on January 15.
Ridha said Ramadan's clothes and other belongings were handed over to his lawyer and his body would be delivered to relatives later on Tuesday.
An appeals court had on Thursday confirmed the death sentence first imposed against Ramadan on February 12 by the Iraqi High Tribunal which is trying former regime officials.
He was originally given a life sentence in November, but the prosecution filed a petition demanding that he too be executed.
Ramadan, born in 1938, was captured by Kurdish fighters in his birthplace of Mosul in northern Iraq in August 2003 and turned over to US forces.
Born into a peasant family in the late 1930s, Ramadan worked in a bank before joining the Baath party in 1956 and participating in a 1968 coup that returned it to power.
In 1970, he formed the Popular Army, the Baath Party's armed wing, and was a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, the country's highest authority under Saddam.
He became vice president in 1991 and was notorious as much for the brutality of the regime as for his own language.
As industry minister in the 1970s, he once declared: "I don't know anything about industry but what I do know that anyone who does not work hard will be executed."
http://english.alalam.ir/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=018030120070320083228