Man pays blood money to Saddam relatives

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

SANAA, Yemen, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A Yemeni security source said Saturday a Yemeni businessman was released from prison after paying blood money for killing an Iraqi related to Saddam Hussein.

The official said on condition of anonymity that Ahsan al-Hatha paid one million dollars to relatives of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for killing Hamad Hassan al-Majeed, a nephew of Ali Hassan al-Majeed, Saddam's cousin known as Chemical Ali.

Al-Hatha was accused of shooting al-Majeed in a Chinese restaurant in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, last February during an argument about Saddam Hussein.

The official told United Press International the Yemeni businessman was released according to tribal laws, in which the families of the killer and victim settled out of court with al-Hatha paying one million dollars as compensation.

http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051015-121540-8490r

Capitalism in a fashion that this administration salivates over.

[MADem]

1. Common practice. You literally can get away with murder over there nt