27 are hanged at Abu Ghraib in first mass execution since Saddam's fall - 09/09/2006

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/08/wiraq08.xml

The brutal excesses of Saddam Hussein's regime were relived yesterday as Iraq's new government announced that it had hanged 27 prisoners convicted of terror and criminal charges.

Mass executions at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, which has several gallows erected in the execution chamber, were suspended after coalition-led troops overthrew Saddam three years ago. The death penalty was reinstituted in 2004, and yesterday's executions took place just days after control of Abu Ghraib was handed over to the Iraqi authorities.

An Iraqi Justice Ministry official said two of those hanged had been convicted of terrorism charges, and the other 25 – including a woman – were convicted of murder and kidnap.

[madokie]

1. tad old there don't you think

By Oliver Poole, Iraq Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:37am BST 09/09/2006

[NNN0LHI]

2. I posted the date in the subject line and no I don't think it is too old

Some things are worth remembering.

Don

[madokie]

3. alrighty then I will agree

theres lots of things that needs to be remembered about these last few years for sure