November 5, 2006

Guilty!

* Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging.
(Hussein is also in the middle of another trial involving the 1988 Anfal campaign, the government offensive in the country's Kurdish region. Hussein is charged in that case with genocide.)
* Awad Hamed al Bander, former chief judge in Saddam's Revolutionary Court, has been sentenced to hanging.
* Saddam's half-brother Barzan al Tikriti, head of the feared Mukhabarat intelligence service, was sentenced to hanging.
* Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was sentenced to life in prison.
* Three Ba'ath party officials were sentenced to 15 years in prison.
* Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid, former Ba'ath official, given 15 years in prison.
* Mizhar Abdullah Ruwayyid, former Ba'ath official, given 15 years in prison.
* Ali Dayih Ali, former Ba'ath official, given 15 years in prison.
* Mohammed Azawi Ali, a Ba'ath party official in Dujail, was cleared.