First post-Saddam executions soon: Jaafari

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The first executions in Iraq since the ousting of Saddam Hussein will take place in the next few days, Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari told reporters.

"The President (Jalal Talabani) has signed three death sentences and the next few days will see the first executions in Kut," 175 kilometers (110 miles) south of Baghdad, Jaafari said Tuesday.

Three members of the Al-Qaeda-linked group Ansar al-Sunna were sentenced to death in May, a verdict later approved by the Supreme Council for Justice, the highest judicial authority in Iraq.

Kurd Bayan Ahmad al-Jaf, a 30-year-old taxi driver, as well as two Sunnis, Oudai Dawud al-Dulaimi, a 25-year-old builder, and Taher Jassem Abbas, a 44-year-old butcher, were condemned to death after being convicted of killing and kidnapping policemen and raping Iraqi women.

They were the first death sentences to be announced by Jaafari's government after capital punishment was suspended by US authorities following the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050816/wl_mideast_afp/iraqexecute

[Coventina]

1. Hooray!! Mission accomplished!!!! Let Freedom reign!!!!

:sarcasm:

on edit: spelling

[saigon68]

13. FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH

FREE TO KILL YOUR DETRACTORS AND YOUR ENEMIES

[NNN0LHI]

2. Are we going to cut their heads off? n/t

[StrafingMoose]

9. They would need to do the same job to...

Poppy Bush, James Baker III and Ronald Dumsfeld too in the trial. Hey are we talking about just & fair trials in a state where rule of law applies? :D

[AlCzervik]

3. oh my, Bush must be so excited, i bet he'll have it on video conference.

[Endangered Specie]

4. What method of execution?

Lets not forget that the condemned arent exactly people youd want to defend. If they did murder/rape people, my only conern then is that the execution isnt put on as a show or something.

[Coventina]

5. I have a lot more concerns than that

Did these people receive due process? Appeals, etc?

With all the chaos over there, and no constitution yet written, I have grave misgivings about whether these people had anything resembling a fair trial.

Remember how we are supposedly installing an "American-style" democracy? Well, how can you do that with no constitution?

A death sentence takes years to enforce in our "American-style" democracy. Why are these sentences being carried out so quickly?

And guess what? American Service people are raping and murdering in Iraq, and I don't see them being executed. What is that so?

The whole thing stinks.

AFAIAC, things are no better than when Saddam was in charge.

[TroglodyteScholar]

6. You must've missed the news...

American officials acknowledged recently that Democracy was an unrealistic goal, so we're settling for an Islamic Republic. Mission accomplished!

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[Career Prole]

8. The first *official* executions, is what they should say.

Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses:

07/16/04 "Sydney Morning Herald' --

Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.

They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city's south-western suburbs.

They say Dr Allawi told onlookers the victims had each killed as many as 50 Iraqis and they "deserved worse than death".

The Prime Minister's office has denied the entirety of the witness accounts in a written statement to the Herald, saying Dr Allawi had never visited the centre and he did not carry a gun.

But the informants told the Herald that Dr Allawi shot each young man in the head as about a dozen Iraqi policemen and four Americans from the Prime Minister's personal security team watched in stunned silence.

Iraq's Interior Minister, Falah al-Naqib, is said to have looked on and congratulated him when the job was done. Mr al-Naqib's office has issued a verbal denial...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6498.htm

[daleo]

10. With the chaos that is Iraq, executions are bound to be arbitrary

Even if the people involved are guilty of murder, you know the process will be intensely political and will only add fuel to the fire of nascent civil war.

"Charging a man with murder in Viet Nam (Iraq) was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500." - Willard, Apocalypse Now.

[Chicago Democrat]

11. Better kill them all off quick before the "elections"

groan....

So the Sunnis are being collectively punished now it seems


We have deposed one group of thugs and put in another..

Pissing everyone off and destroying the country as well....


BIGGEST DISASTER SINCE THE CIVIL WAR.... Perhaps worse

[struggle4progress]

12. First we brought back the rape rooms. Then we brought back ..

.. the mass graves. And now it's time for demonstration executions ...

[bemildred]

14. Starting with him. no doubt. nt