Iraq hangs 27 'terrorists'

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Iraqi authorities hanged 27 convicted "terrorists" on Wednesday, the interior ministry announced.

"Twenty-seven terrorists were hanged today in Baghdad. Most of them were Iraqis," interior ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf told AFP.

He said they were convicted for attacks on Iraqi civilians and sentenced to death, in an execution order signed by an Iraqi vice president.

The authorities reinstated the death penalty which was abolished after the US-led invasion of March 2003.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=140904

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Isn't that what Saddam's on trial for?

[warrens]

2. Sounds like we got a real good legal system set up there

Wonder how long that trial lasted, in minutes and seconds.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. wonder if the "Texecutioner" had anything to do with the reinstatement??

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The U.S. president-elect's record of 152 executions in 5 years as Texas governor could be an irritant in dealings with Europe, even if its governments, which all ban the death penalty, are unlikely to let distaste for American penal habits disrupt more vital diplomatic business.

Bush, branded a killer this year by a senior French minister, had a further taste of what he can expect within hours of his confirmation in office on Thursday as the head of the continent's intergovernmental human rights body, the Council of Europe, sent him a barbed message of congratulation.

"The death penalty is a grim shadow on the United States. I call on George Bush to show the courage of a true leader and begin the debate on abolition -- following the lead of Europe," the Council's secretary- general Walter Schwimmer said.

http://www.ccadp.org/texecutioner-outrage.htm

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