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Court Upholds Saddam's Death Sentence
Dec 26, 2006 : 8:43 am ET - BAGHDAD, Iraq --  An Iraqi appeals court has upheld the death sentence for Saddam Hussein, Iraq's national security adviser said Tuesday. "The appeals court approved the verdict to hang Saddam," said the official, Mouwafak al-Rubaie. On Nov. 5, an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam to the gallows for the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town after an attempt on his life there. Posted by: .com 2006-12-26 |
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