"Chemical Ali" sentenced to hang
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Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as "Chemical Ali", was sentenced on Sunday to hang for masterminding a genocidal military campaign that used poison gas against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.
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An Iraqi court on Monday raised the sentence against Saddam Hussein's vice president to death by hanging for the killings of Shiites in the town of Dujail.
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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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BEIRUT/DUESSELDORF, Germany  - A Beirut court sentenced a Lebanese man to life in prison and another to 12 years on Tuesday for their roles in a failed attempt to detonate bombs on German trains in 2006, judicial sources said.
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Ahmad Shlash, Ezzo Hussein al-Hussein sentenced to death for being involved in bomb attack, firefight in Damascus. DAMASCUS - Two of 22 defendants accused of involvement in a bomb attack and firefight in the
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The imam of a Georgia mosque who pleaded guilty to providing support to the militant group Hamas was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison.
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A man who pleaded guilty to selling heroin laced with a powerful painkiller that killed two people was sentenced Thursday to more than 30 years in prison.
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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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China sentences the former head of its Food and Drug Administration to death for corruption, state media says.
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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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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is given a suspended sentence.
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CAMP PENDLETON, California  - A U.S. medic who helped kidnap an Iraqi grandfather later killed execution-style by an American squad was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday, but will end up serving a year under a plea deal.
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A former high-ranking official at Chinaâs top food and drug watchdog agency has been sentenced to death.
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SAN&#39;A, Yemen Sept. 29, 2004 - A Yemeni judge sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years Wednesday for orchestrating the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, an
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.  - A prominent U.S. Muslim  activist was sentenced on Friday to 23 years in prison for  illegal financial dealings with Libya and for his role in a  Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's de facto leader.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A man serving a life sentence for murder was sentenced to three additional years in prison for passing out cheese sandwiches while in jail. Douglas Eugene Wilson, 45, pleaded guilty Monday to possession of contraband and was sentenced by District Judge Thomas Kane.
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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