{"id":1012,"date":"2006-11-06T01:18:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T00:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/06\/iraqi-pm-hails-saddams-sentence-to-death\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T01:18:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T00:18:06","slug":"iraqi-pm-hails-saddams-sentence-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/06\/iraqi-pm-hails-saddams-sentence-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi PM hails Saddam&#8217;s sentence to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi prime minister has hailed the sentencing of Saddam Hussein to death by hanging for crimes against humanity as &#8220;a verdict on a whole dark era&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nouri Maliki said he was a criminal who deserved the punishment he was given.<\/p>\n<p>The former Iraqi leader was convicted over the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail following an assassination attempt on him in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>US President George W Bush said the verdict was a &#8220;milestone&#8221; for Iraq but the EU urged it not to execute him. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants will be given the right to appeal, but that is expected to take only a few weeks and to end in failure for the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>In Iraq celebrations broke out among Shia Muslims, but Sunni areas saw protests and some clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Almost three years since his capture, soaring sectarian violence has brought Iraq to the brink of civil war &#8211; and correspondents say few Iraqis think the trial verdict will ease the conflict.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE VERDICTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Saddam Hussein<\/strong>, former Iraqi president: found guilty and sentenced to death<\/li>\n<li><strong>Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti<\/strong>, Saddam Hussein&#8217;s half-brother: found guilty and sentenced to death<\/li>\n<li><strong>Awad Hamed al-Bandar<\/strong>, Chief Judge of Revolutionary Court: found guilty and sentenced to death<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taha Yassin Ramadan<\/strong>, former Iraqi vice-president: found guilty and sentenced to life in jail<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abdullah Kadhem Ruaid,<\/strong> Senior Baath official: found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in jail<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abdullah Rawed Mizher<\/strong>, Senior Baath official: found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in jail<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ali Daeem Ali<\/strong>, Senior Baath official: found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in jail<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mohammed Azawi Ali<\/strong>, Baath official: acquitted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/6119428.stm\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi prime minister has hailed the sentencing of Saddam Hussein to death by hanging for crimes against humanity as &#8220;a verdict on a whole dark era&#8221;. Nouri Maliki said he was a criminal who deserved the punishment he was given. The former Iraqi leader was convicted over the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/06\/iraqi-pm-hails-saddams-sentence-to-death\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iraqi PM hails Saddam&#8217;s sentence to Death&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}