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Iraq hangs 36 people sentenced to death for killing of troops in 2014
[FOREIGNDESKNEWS] Iraq said on Sunday it had hanged 36 Death Eaters sentenced to death over the mass killing of hundreds of mainly Shi'ite soldiers at a camp north of Baghdad two years ago.It is the highest number of Death Eaters executed in one day by the Iraqi government since Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... fighters took control of parts of northern and western Iraq in 2014. The executions were carried out at a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? quoted the Justice Ministry as saying. As many as 1,700 soldiers were killed two years ago after they fled from Camp Speicher, a former U.S. military base just north of Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, when it was overrun by Islamic State, the ultra-hardline Sunni group. The government came under increased pressure from local Shi'ite politicians to execute Death Eaters sentenced to death after a massive bombing that targeted a shopping street in Baghdad on July 3, killing at least 324 people. Claimed by Islamic State, the truck bomb that blew up in the Karrada district was the deadliest since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. Iraq's Justice Ministry announced days later that 45 death sentences had been carried out since the beginning of the year. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-22 |
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