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The executions led to significant international criticism, [4] [5] with United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers condemning Iraq's actions as "repugnant to the conscience of the world" [6] and Egypt's Al-Ahram cautioning: "The hanging of fourteen people in the public square is certainly not a heart-warming sight, nor is it the occasion for organizing a spectacle."
Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi (Arabic: أحمد هاشم عبد العيساوي) was an al Qaeda terrorist operating in Iraq in the early 2000s. [1] He allegedly masterminded [2] [3] [4] the ambush and killing of four American military contractors whose bodies were then dragged by a spontaneously formed mob and hung from the old bridge over the Euphrates river in Fallujah, Iraq. [5]
The four armed contractors—Scott Helvenston, Jerry Zovko, Wesley Batalona and Mike Teague—were killed and dragged from their vehicles.Their bodies were beaten, burned, dragged through the city streets, and hung from a Euphrates River bridge.
Capital punishment in Iraq is a legal penalty. It was commonly used by the government of Saddam Hussein (who was himself ultimately executed), was temporarily halted after the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq that deposed Hussein, and has since been reinstated. Executions are carried out by hanging.
The primary news source for the execution was the state-run Iraqi television news station Al Iraqiya, whose announcer said that the "criminal Saddam was hanged to death". A scrolling headline read, "Saddam's execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq's history". Al Arabiya reported that Saddam's lawyer had confirmed Saddam's death. [36]
Iraq had hanged 11 militants sentenced to death on terrorism charges, local security officials said on Thursday. The executions were carried out on Monday at a prison in the southern Iraqi city of ...
The independent experts urged the Baghdad government to immediately halt all mass executions, noting that 21 prisoners had been executed in October, followed by a further 21 last week in Nasiriyah ...
January 15 – Awad Hamed al-Bandar, 61, former chief judge of Iraq, execution by hanging. [65] January 15 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 55, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, former leader of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, execution by hanging. [65] March 14 – Sa'dun Hammadi, 76, Iraqi Prime Minister (1991), leukemia. [66]