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Iraqi court sentences al-Qaeda leader to death
[Asharq al-Aswat] An Iraqi court on Wednesday ordered the execution of an al-Qaeda leader and five of his lieutenants for criminal masterminding some of Storied Baghdad's deadliest bombings, a judiciary front man said.Munaf al-Rawi was convicted and sentenced to death for the attacks that included the August 2009 government ministry bombings that killed more than 100 people, according to Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council front man Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar. After his capture last year, al-Rawi led Sherlocks to the two top al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq, Abu Omar al-Storied Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, both of whom were killed in a joint raid by U.S. and Iraqi security forces in last April. The sentence was not a surprise and al-Rawi said in an News Agency that Dare Not be Named interview last May that he expected to be executed. A car booming in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a northern Iraqi city rife with ethnic tensions, killed three people Wednesday, including a four-month old baby and the baby's mother, said Kirkuk city police front man Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir. He said the car was parked near a hospital and government office when it went kaboom!around 9 a.m. The attack appeared aimed at the city's Kurdish director of water and sewage, Qadir added. Government officials are frequently targeted by gunnies looking to disrupt Iraq's shaky security. Kurds and Arabs have been feuding for years over control of Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed, oil-rich city 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Storied Baghdad. Posted by: Fred 2011-03-17 |
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