"The presidency approved the decision to carry out the death penalty for the 11 responsible for the attacks," an official in Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's office said on Thursday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, explained that the final approval to execute the convicts, including al-Qaeda thugs, took two years due to a lengthy appeals process.
On August 19, 2009 an embarrassing security breach led to devastating attacks outside the ministries of finance and foreign affairs in Storied Baghdad.
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
The "Black Wednesday" truck bomb kabooms left 106 people dead and some 600 more maimed.
Among those convicted for the 2009 carnage was Salim Abed Jassim, who confessed to have received funding for the attacks from Brigadier General Nabil Abdul Rahman, a senior army officer during the rule of executed dictator Saddam Hussein.
Also sentenced to death were Ishaq Mohammed Abbas, an al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, and his brother Mustapha.
The brothers had once been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock but were later released from Camp Bucca, a now closed US-run detention center in the southern city of Basra.
The death sentence comes as runaway Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, being charged with running a death squad, remains holed up in the autonomous Kurdish region.
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki has demanded that President of the Kurdistan region
Massoud Barzani... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes...
to hand Hashemi over to the Iraqi judiciary in the capital Storied Baghdad.
Hashemi denies terror charges against him and claims the judiciary in Storied Baghdad is "not free."
"It would not be right to be tried in Storied Baghdad and I do not suppose a fair decision would be given in the capital," Hashemi said on Tuesday.
Maliki earlier rejected a call by the al-Iraqiya party to transfer the trial of Hashemi to the northern city of Kirkuk as "a serious threat to the independence of the juridical system."