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Iraqi Kurdistan sentences 12 Ansar
al-Islam members to death
5.4.2006
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ERBIL, Kurdistan-Iraq, April 4, 2006, - A court
in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region (Kurdistan)
Tuesday sentenced to death 12 members of militant
group Ansar Al-Islam for numerous killings and
explosions, an Erbil judiciary official said.
"Zana Nusrat Abdel Karim, the chief of a cell of
Ansar al-Islam and 11 other members were condemned
to death by the criminal court of Erbil," the
official told AFP.
The 12 were convicted of numerous "terrorist"
activities and killings of civilians in Kurdistan's
Erbil and Dahuk regions, the official said.
Karim, 35, a mechanical engineer and resident of
Erbil used to carry out the killings of civilians at
his home, the official added.
Another accused, Karzan Ismail Shamlah, was
sentenced to life imprisonment as the prosecution
was unable to prove his direct role in the crimes.
The official said the sentences were passed under
Iraqi law and not just Kurdistan law.
On July 13, 2005, the Kurdistan Democratic Party-run
television had aired confessions of the accused.
"We used to attract people to my house and then slit
their throats. The killings were part of training to
the group members on how to kill people," Abdel
Karim, the chief of the cell, was shown as saying in
the video footage.
He said the bodies of the victims were cut in pieces
and "put in plastic bags and later dumped."
The footage also showed such a training scene, where
a victim's throat was slit.
AFP
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