Saddam henchmen may cheat gallows
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The Iraqi government is split over whether to enforce the death sentence on Chemical Ali and two others.
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prisoners as demanded by an al Qaeda ally whose group has already beheaded two Americans. would spare 62-year-old Kenneth Bigley after the body of American Jack Hensley was recovered in Baghdad.
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Judges may be stopped from freeing criminals on legal 'loopholes' under government plans.
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BAGHDAD -- Three close associates of former president Saddam Hussein will move to the next stage of their legal cases before Christmas, when investigative judges will begin questioning them to gather facts for their trials, Iraqi government officials said
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Iraqi authorities are struggling to clear up the confusion over whether the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s ousted dictatorship has been nabbed.
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BAGHDAD -- Prosecutors charging former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with genocide presented potentially damning documents yesterday in his trial showing his government used banned chemical weapons in a late-1980s counterinsurgency operation against rebellious Iraqi Kurds.
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Specific sentences and charges against the six former Saddam Hussein regime officials in the so-called Anfal trial in Iraq, according to the International Center for Transitional Justice:
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Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," and two other regime officials were sentenced Sunday to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children with chemical weapons, artillery barrages and mass executions two decades ago.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 20, 2004 - A militant group posted a video on the Internet purporting to show militants sawing off the heads of three Iraqi members of a Kurdish party for cooperating with US forces.
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Iraq will put some of Saddam Hussein&#39;s top lieutenants on trial next week, a month before a national election many hope will lay the ghosts of his rule
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Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed ordered guards to execute a group of 200 people as he stamped out a Shi'ite uprising in 1991, a court trying him for crimes against humanity heard on Monday.
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Law promoted as way to return former members of Hussein's party to public life may cost jobs.
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The identity of a man is being scrutinized by the authorities in Iraq in an effort to establish whether or not one of Saddam Husseinâs top lieutenants has been arrested.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo detainees accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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The U.S. government may pursue the  death penalty for accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias  Moussaoui if he is convicted, a federal appeals court  reaffirmed on Monday, clearing the way for his trial to  proceed.
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Personnel have admitted to beating or threatening to kill Iraqi detainees and stealing money from Iraqi civilians but have not been charged with criminal conduct, newly released documents say.
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SADDAM Hussein's enforcer 'Chemical Ali' was yesterday sentenced to hang for masterminding genocide against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.  Ali Hassan al-Majeed, Saddam's cousin, trembled as the judge read the verdict.