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| Iraq Sentences Insurgents (sort of) |
| 2006-03-02 |
| INSURGENTS FOUND GUILTY OF POSSESSION OF ILLEGAL WEAPONS AND EMPLACING IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES Release Date: 3/1/2006 (I cut out a lot of this.) BAGHDAD, Iraq—The Central Criminal Court of Iraq held 24 trials last week convicting 37 security detainees for various crimes including possession of illegal weapons, illegal border crossing and emplacing improvised explosive devices. In the first case, Coalition Security Forces apprehended Ali Shaker Mahmoud, Lu’ay Farhan Thiab and Ziad Ahmed Abdulla for burying an improvised explosive device Aug. 26, 2004. All three defendants were charged with emplacing an IED under Article 345 of the Iraqi Penal Code. The Trial Court found all three defendants guilty of emplacing an IED and sentenced them to 2 years confinement with credit given for time served. In the fourth case, Coalition Security Forces apprehended the below defendants after observing them establishing an ambush position along a main supply route Sept. 18, 2005. The patrol established the observation point because Anti-Iraqi Forces had conducted ambushes of Coalition Convoys for several months from the same point along the supply route. The defendants were charged with violating Article 430 of the Iraqi Penal Code. The Trial Court found the defendants guilty and sentenced them as follows: 1) Jassim Mohammed Ibrahim – 2 Years 2) Fhadil Rasheed Salih – 2 Years 3) Faris Bizai Jawad – 2 Years 4) Ahmed Mahmud Mizhir – 2 Years 5) Abdul-Rehman Mohammed – 2 Years 6) Khasim Mohammed Ali – 2 Years (Half these guys are named Mohammed!) In the fifth case, Coalition Security Forces apprehended Zahy Abdul Kareem after conducting a raid on his home May 18, 2005. Coalition Security Forces searched the house and found one pound of PE-four explosives, one assembled IED detonation device, one RPG Launcher, two RPG sights, one RPG hand grip, one RPG trigger mechanism, one SKS sniper rifle, three AK-47 assault rifles, two military radio telephone sets, one pound of gun powder, one hundred 9mm rounds of ammunition and two hundred PKC rounds of ammunition. The defendant was charged with violating Coalition Provisional Authority Order 3/2003, 6/2A, Possession of Illegal Weapons. The Trial Court found the defendant guilty and sentenced him to 1 year imprisonment. (Even by Boston standards this strikes me as a lenient sentence.) In the sixteenth case, Coalition Security Forces apprehended Na’yef Dalaf Omar for possession of four hand grenades and an explosive belt Nov. 7, 2003. The Trial Court found the defendant guilty of the charge and sentenced him to 1 year imprisonment and a fine of $1,000 U. S. Dollars. In the eighteenth case, Coalition Security Forces apprehended Hassan Mohammed Abdullah, a Saudi national, for entering the country of Iraq illegally to assist the insurgency against the government of Iraq Nov. 28, 2004. The Trial Court found the defendant guilty of the charge and sentenced him to Life (20 years) imprisonment. (The big punishment must be for being foreign.) In the nineteenth case, Coalition Security Forces apprehended Wafiak Mohammed Shihata (What a perfect name!) on suspicion that he allegedly had a weapons cache near his home, was suspected of kidnapping, and may have been involved with five IED explosions near his home July 5, 2005. The defendant was charged with violating Article 1246, Iraqi Passport Law. The Trial Court found the defendant guilty of the charge and sentenced him to 2 years imprisonment. In the twenty-third case, Coalition Security Forces apprehended Tha’er Mohammed Sulayman for illegal border crossing Jan. 4, 2005. The defendant was charged with violating Article 10/1/A of the Iraqi Passport Law, Illegal Border Crossing. The Trial Court found the defendant guilty of the charge and sentenced him to 6 years imprisonment. To date, the CCCI has held 919 trials of insurgents suspected of anti-Iraqi and anti-Coalition activities threatening the security of Iraq and targeting MNF-I. These proceedings have resulted in 822 individual convictions with sentences ranging up to 30 years imprisonment. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #1 Interesting mix of sentences. Still, in the case where the gentlemen spent almost two years in Iraqi prisons before being tried, I can understand giving them credit for time served. The stories I've seen have not made me confident that Iraqi prisons were far removed from hell holes. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-03-02 22:13 |