'Chemical Ali' sentenced to hang
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An Iraq court on Sunday sentenced three firmer aides to Saddam Hussein, inlcuding the man known as "Chemical Ali" to death by hanging for their role in a 1980s genocide campaign that that killed up to 100,000 Kurds.
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Pakistan ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani soldier has been sentenced to death and another soldier given 10 years imprisonment after they were convicted in an attempt to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf, the army spokesman said yesterday. Other air force and army personnel are facing similar trials in military courts over last year's bomb attack -- believed to have been plotted by ...
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SAN'A, Yemen - A Yemeni judge sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years Wednesday, the first convictions and sentences for the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, an attack blamed on Osama bin Laden's terror network.    Saudi-born Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is in U.S...
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CHEMICAL Ali, the man accused of ordering the gassing of thousands of Kurdish civilians during the 1980s, will be the first senior member of Saddam Husseinâs regime to face trial, Iraqâs defence minister said yesterday.
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A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's crown prince was sentenced Friday to the maximum 23 years in prison for illegal business dealings with Libya.
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An Indian court has sentenced the son of an influential politician to life behind bars for the murder of a young model, a crime he could have got away with had there not been a public outcry.
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A US soldier was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after his conviction on charges he tried to aid al Qaeda by detailing ways to destroy US weapons and kill soldiers to undercover agents, the Army said.
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Three people who kept an epileptic man hostage for six weeks are sent to prison for a total of 29 years.
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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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A Turkish court sentenced seven people, including a Syrian al Qaeda militant, to life in prison on Friday for suicide bomb attacks on Jewish and British targets in Istanbul which killed more than 60 people in 2003.
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Majid is accused of having ordered 1988 gassing of the Kurds in Halabja that killed some 5,000 people. BAGHDAD - Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein nicknamed &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; for the gassing of
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BAGHDAD, June 24 -- Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein, including the one known as "Chemical Ali," were found guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the mass slaughter of as many as...
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In major relief for Bollywood actor Fardeen Khan, a Mumbai court Thursday allowed his plea that he be   charged for possessing only one gram of cocaine, for which the maximum jail term is six months.
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An Iraqi court upholds the death sentence against Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali.
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A military court in Pakistan has sentenced to death a soldier it found was involved in an assassination attempt on Pakistan&#39;s President Pervez Musharraf.
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BAGHDAD -- An Al Qaeda militant has been hanged for his role in one of the first major bombings in Iraq, a 2003 blast that killed a Shi'ite leader and 84 other people and foreshadowed the four-year insurgency that has followed, a Justice Ministry official said yesterday.
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A former boxer who pledged to "kill all black people" is convicted of attempting to murder two people.