Harsh justice where U.S. relies on Iraq tribes
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AL QAIM, Iraq  - Seated between his police chief and a U.S. Marine battalion commander, the Iraqi mayor opened his weekly security meeting by explaining how he had authorized one of the local tribes to carry out a summary execution.
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Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi chief prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some human rights experts as unfair and flawed.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - An Army sergeant went on trial  Tuesday in the death of an Iraqi civilian who was pushed off a  Tigris River bridge in a case that helped fuel anger over U.S.  abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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American fortunes in Iraq are ever more dependent on feuding Iraqis who seem, at times, almost heedless to American appeals.
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The letter to the editor was printed over nine months ago but its effect is still reverberating through Arizona. The Dec. 2 letter in the Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen made a suggestion on how to end "the horror" of American soldiers being killed in Iraq: Go to the nearest mosque and kill five Muslims.
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access to an Islamic courthouse that had been run by militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr. &quot;Cover your noses. This is where his Mehdi Army slit the throats of people and then left them to rot,&quot; one said.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 -- A coalition of 300 Iraqi tribal leaders on Saturday demanded the release of Saddam Hussein so he could reclaim the presidency and also called for armed resistance against U.S.-led forces.
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Analysis: Shi'ites and Sunnis accuse the U.S. of deliberately failing to protect them from each other, as raging violence mocks the idea that Iraqis are almost ready handle their own security
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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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At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists were court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own unit's mission to Iraq.
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A growing number of Iraqis blamed the United States for creating conditions that led to the single worst suicide bombing in the war.
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Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some rights experts as unfair and fundamentally flawed.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 -- The trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, in which he was sentenced this month to death by hanging, was marred by flaws so serious that they undermined the trial's fairness and called into question the verdict, an international human rights watchdog group said in a...
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A tribal chief who challenged Iraq&#039;s most feared terrorist and sent fighters to help U.S. troops battle al-Qaida in western Iraq died in a hail of bullets Sunday &amp;#151; the latest victim of an apparent insurgent campaign against Sunni Arabs who work with Americans.
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Saddam Hussein's lawyers urged Iraqis on Thursday to reject the former president's genocide trial, accusing the court of bias against him.
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Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant warns in a newly released video statement that Iraqi tribal leaders who side with U.S. troops against al Qaeda fighters will face reprisals. "They will lose both their religion and life," Ayman al-Zawahiri says.
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Members of one of Iraq's minority faiths face new repressions and discrimination after the fall of Saddam's regime