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| Iraq |
| Iraq's parliament speaker says he opposes hanging of Saddam-era minister |
| 2007-10-26 |
| The parliament speaker joined Iraq's president Thursday to oppose the execution of a Saddam Hussein-era defense minister convicted of genocide against Kurds, arguing that sending him to the gallows would set a dangerous precedent for the armed forces. "I am entirely against it," he said on Iraq's Al-Sharqiya television, which interviewed him in Damascus, Syria. "I am even against him being held to account," he said. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani's opposition to the execution of Sultan Hashim Ahmed al-Tai likely will deepen the dispute over the former defense chief execution - st becoming a major political crisis. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Yet more proof that Iraq's current government is worth less than a sack full of dead mice. As opposed to our Congress? Politicians are vermin ... everywhere. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-10-26 16:50 |
| #3 That'd be the token Sunni speaker of Parliament brought in to bring ethnic balance to the Iraqi government (Kurdish president, Shia prime minister, etc) in an apparent attempt to replicate the historic stability of Lebanon's governments? Hashim Ahmed seems to have been a Murat-esque valiant meathead, but he was in charge of the forces which waged Anfal. His head *should* be on the block. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2007-10-26 14:00 |
| #2 Yet more proof that Iraq's current government is worth less than a sack full of dead mice. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-26 13:27 |
| #1 "Hangin's too good fer that varmint!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-10-26 11:30 |