EFL:
 In Baghdad, officials also announced that one of Saddam Hussein's nephews was sentenced to life in prison for funding the violent insurgency, and would stand trial on other charges. Government officials had not announced that Saddam's nephew, Ayman Sabawi, was on trial before revealing that he had been convicted and sentenced to life in prison "for funding militants and possessing and manufacturing roadside bombs." | Wonder if he was informed? Oh, well, it's not like I care. About his rights, I mean. |
Sabawi, the son of Saddam's half brother Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, who served as a presidential adviser before the U.S.-led invasion, was captured in early May. The Iraqi Central Criminal Court in Baghdad said Sabawi would face a second trial - beginning Nov. 1 - for other, unspecified additional crimes to which he allegedly confessed during pretrial interrogation. His boyfriend colleague, Tareq Khalaf Mizal, arrested along with Sabawi, was sentenced to six years. |