Iraq mujahidin may face death penalty

[Aidoneus]

The crusaders and collaborationist gangs obviously put their thoughts on policy through the filter--'What Would Saddam Do?'

Iraq mujahidin may face death penalty
Monday 25 October 2004

About 150 to 160 fighters who have appeared in Iraqi courts charged with carrying out attacks on the US-sponsored government could face the death penalty if convicted, the justice minister said.


On Sunday Malik Duhan al-Hasan said: "The Arabs have been referred to Iraqi courts and the verdicts against these foreigners are due to be pronounced soon for acts of terror they carried out in Iraq."

He added that those on trial included Egyptians, Iranians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Moroccans, Yemenis and Syrians.

"The crimes committed in Iraq will be judged according to Iraqi law which reserves the death sentence for those charged with premeditated murder or those who carry out a car bombing to kill the biggest number of people," he said.

Despite personally disapproving of the death penalty, the minister said the dire security situation in Iraq - demonstrated by the weekend massacre of 49 new soldiers after they graduated from a training camp - demanded radical measures.

"When one person is responsible for the death of 50 others, must we treat them with the regard that he chose not to give to those whose lives he took?" he asked.

Capital punishment, which was in force under the ousted government of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was reinstated by the US selected interim government on 8 August after being abolished by the previous US administration.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C7FD5B9B-FCE5-4059-80CF-67BC27A250F6.htm

[AIJ Alom]

1. mujahidin ? From a fellow Muslim HECK NO !!!!

Those bastards are outsiders trying to kill Iraqis and Americans. If they were fighting for Iraq's freedom then they should have overthrown Saddam years ago.