Saddam’s Half Brother and Chief Judge Are Hanged
More gruesome news from Iraq: "Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the head of his revolutionary court were executed before dawn [Monday], according to the Iraqi government." (The New York Times)More gruesome news from Iraq: “Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and the head of his revolutionary court were executed before dawn [Monday], according to the Iraqi government.”
Your support matters…NYT: American military officials, who had custody of Mr. Hussein, were particularly upset, and pushed hard to ensure that the executions of his co-defendants — Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former head of the Mukhabarat secret police and the younger half-brother of Mr. Hussein, and Awad Hamad al-Bandar, who was chief judge of the revolutionary court under Mr. Hussein — were carried out properly.
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