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Jalal Talabani urges delay Saddam aides'
executions
10.1.2007
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January 10, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq),-- Iraqi
President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday the
government should delay the execution of two of
Saddam Hussein's co-defendants.
Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief,
Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former
head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were sentenced
to death with Saddam.
They were found guilty, along with the former Iraqi
leader, of involvement in killing 148 Shiite Muslims
after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former
leader in the northern town of Dujail.
"In my opinion we should wait on the executions,"
Talabani said Wednesday at a news conference with
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad. "We should
examine the situation," he said without elaborating. |
Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd |
Ibrahim and al-Bandar were originally scheduled to
be executed with Saddam on Dec. 30. Their executions
were postponed, however, until after the Muslim
holiday of Eid al-Adha, which ended a week ago.
Iraqi officials have said the two men were expected
to be hanged in the coming days, but no date has
been released. Talabani said he did not know when
Ibrahim and al-Bandar would be hanged.
Saddam's execution devolved into an unruly scene
that brought worldwide criticism of the Iraqi
government. Video of the execution, recorded on a
cell phone camera, showed the former dictator being
taunted on the gallows.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said that
Khalilzad asked him to delay Saddam's execution for
10 days to two weeks, but added that Iraqi officials
rejected the demand.
AP
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