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Iraq

Saddam Hussein's half-grandson acquitted in Speicher massacre case

2023-09-24

[Shafaq News] The Rusafa Criminal Court in Baghdad has acquitted Abdullah Yaser Sabawi Ebrahim, a relative of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, of any involvement in the 2014 "Speicher Massacre". Ebrahim's clearance followed his extradition from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... last year, facilitated by Interpol. Alongside Sabawi, Ziad Tariq Khalaf Nazzal was also cleared of all charges related to the massacre, as official documents disclosed on Saturday. The Supreme Judicial Council confirmed the decision, noting a lack of concrete evidence against both Nazzal and Ebrahim. Following the verdict, both individuals were released, barring any further pending charges. After the arrest, Saad Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan beseeched global human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. bodies to reveal the uncertain fate of his detained kin under Lebanese jurisdiction. Abdullah Yaser Sabawi Ebrahim is the son of Sabawi Ebrahim al-Hassan al-Tikrit ...birthplace of Saddam Hussein... i, Saddam's half-brother who was sentenced to life for funding gangs and kabooms.

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Iraq

Iraq recovers the grandson of Saddam Hussein's half-brother over Speicher

2022-11-12

[Shafaq News] On Friday, the Iraqi security authorities announced that the grandson of Saddam Hussein's half-brother Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikrit ...birthplace of Saddam Hussein... i, accused of participating in the Speicher massacre, returned to Iraq from Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... The massacre of the Iraqi army detachment at Camp Speicher in June 2014 was unprecedented when ISIS fighters captured and murdered at least 1,500 Iraqi Shi'a Air Force cadets outside Tikrit Air Academy (formerly known as Camp Speicher) The Iraqi Ministry of Interior said that the Interpol police in the Ministry recovered Abdullah Yasser al-Sabawi, Saddam Hussein's grandnephew, after being apprehended in Beirut. Abdullah Yasser Sabawi was detained in the Lebanese city of Jbeil. "He is accused of carrying out criminal operations that resulted in the death of thousands of innocents, based on an Interpol warrant that the relevant Lebanese security agencies have enforced," Abbas Ibrahim, head of Lebanon's General Security intelligence agency, told al-Iraqiya. Maj. Gen. Ibrahim added, "the Lebanese security services have executed an Interpol warrant, and this is our duty towards our people in Iraq."

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Lebanon arrests grandson of Saddam's brother over Speicher massacre

2022-08-21

[AnNahar] Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... ’s General Security agency has arrested Abdullah Yasser Sabawi, a grandson of Saddam Hussein’s half-brother Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikrit ...birthplace of Saddam Hussein... i, who is accused of involvement in the 2014 Camp Speicher massacre in Iraq. "He is accused of carrying out criminal operations that resulted in the death of thousands of innocents, based on an Interpol warrant that has been enforced by the relevant Lebanese security agencies," General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim told Iraq’s IMN TV. "We operate as per the international law, the judiciary and the warrants of exchanging and extraditing runaways among nations, especially a brotherly country like Iraq," Ibrahim added. "We in turn reject any impunity and we support the implementation of the law without any interferences or pressures, and this is our duty towards our people in Iraq," the major general added. According to media reports, Sabawi, 27, had sought refuge in Lebanon in 2018 along with his family, after having lived in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... in the wake of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. "Sabawi’s apartment in the Lebanese city of Jbeil was raided on June 13 and he was arrested on charges of collaborating with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, based on a request from Iraqi authorities," the reports said. The Camp Speicher massacre occurred on June 12, 2014, when the Islamic State group killed between 1,095 to 1,700 Iraqi cadets in an attack on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. At the time of the massacre, there were between 5,000 and 10,000 unarmed cadets in the camp, and IS fighters selected the Shiites and non-Moslems for execution. It is the second deadliest act of terrorism in history, only surpassed by the September 11 attacks.

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Iraq

Saddam Hussein's half brother dies of cancer

2013-07-09

Saddam Hussein's half brother and former director of his feared general security services died of cancer on Monday in a Baghdad hospital, a senior official said. Sabawi Ibrahim Al Hassan, who had received several death sentences, was transferred to the hospital from prison as his health deteriorated at dawn. His body will be handed over to his family. Al-Hassan had lived in exile for a period after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, but was deported to Iraq by the Syrian government in 2005. He was suspected of directing and financing insurgency operations by Saddam loyalists in Iraq from Syria. His photo appeared as the Six of Diamonds in decks of playing cards distributed by the US military featuring members of Saddam's deposed regime. Al Hassan was No. 36 on the US list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis at the time. Under Saddam, Al Hassan served as head of intelligence and security during the 1991 Gulf War. He then ran the general security services until 1996, when he took up his final post of presidential adviser to Saddam. His son, Ayman Sabawi Ibrahim, was arrested in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit and was sentenced to life in prison, but escaped in northern Iraq in late 2006.

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Iraq

Saddam half-brothers to be executed within a month

2011-07-16

Hang 'em high. BAGHDAD — Iraq will execute two of Saddam Hussein’s half-brothers within a month along with three other former regime figures, an official said on Friday after the five were handed over by the US military. “They (the five officials) will be executed within one month.,” said justice ministry spokesman Haidar al-Saadi. “They include Watban Ibrahim Hassan and Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti,” two half-brothers of the former dictator. Also among the group handed over and slated to be executed were former defence minister Sultan Hashem Ahmed and ex-generals Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti and Aziz Saleh Numan. The five were sentenced to death in different trials from 2007 to 2011. “Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari visited with the presidency council earlier this week and they agreed not to delay the ratification of their condemnation to death,” Saadi said. “We believe that the council will sign the documents within days and they will be executed within one month.” Under Iraqi law, all death sentences must be formally approved by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, or by either of his two vice presidents. Watban Ibrahim Hassan, a former interior minister, was sentenced to death in March 2009 for his involvement in the 1992 execution of 42 merchants accused of food price speculation. He is the only senior Saddam-era official to have publicly apologised for wrongs committed by the dictator’s Baath party. Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a former chief of Saddam’s intelligence service, was condemned to death in the same trial. Former defence minister Ahmed and ex-general Tikriti were sentenced to death in June 2007 in connection with the repression of Iraq’s Kurds in the 1987-88 Anfal campaign in which 180,000 people died. Numan was given his death sentence last month over the violent suppression of an uprising of Shiite Muslims in south Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War. So far, Saddam and four of his top officials have been executed since the 2003 invasion.

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Iraq

Iraq to execute Saddam's half-brothers

2011-07-16

[Emirates 24/7] Iraq will execute two of Saddam Hussein's half-brothers within a month along with three other former regime officials, an official said on Friday, a day after the five were handed over by the US military. The group, transferred to Iraqi custody on Thursday morning, were among 206 high-value detainees still being held by American forces ahead of a US military pullout due by the end of the year. "We received the final 206 Iraqi prisoners being held by US forces, including five bigwigs from the former regime," said justice ministry front man Haidar al-Saadi. "They (the five officials) will be executed within one month. They include Watban Ibrahim Hassan and Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti," two half-brothers of the late dictator. Also among the group handed over and slated to be executed are former defence minister Sultan Hashem Ahmed and ex-generals Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti and Aziz Saleh Numan. The five have been sentenced to death in different trials. "Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari visited with the presidency council earlier this week and they agreed not to delay the ratification of their condemnation to death," he said. "We believe that the council will sign the documents within days and they will be executed within one month." Under Iraqi law, all death sentences must be formally approved by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, or by either of his two vice presidents. The 206 prisoners transferred were being held by US forces at a detention facility on Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... 's outskirts, formerly known as Camp Cropper. Though the site was handed over to Iraq on July 15, 2010, American soldiers were charged with holding the group of high-value detainees. Saadi said that of the larger group, the paperwork for 10 detainees had not yet been completed. Saddam, who was deposed in a 2003 US-led invasion, himself spent three years in Camp Cropper until his execution on December 2006. Watban Ibrahim Hassan, a former interior minister, was sentenced to death in March 2009 for his involvement in the 1992 execution of 42 merchants accused of food-price speculation. He is the only senior Saddam-era official to have publicly apologised for wrongs committed by the dictator's Baath Party. Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a former chief of Saddam's intelligence service, was condemned to death in the same trial. Ahmed and Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti were sentenced to death in June 2007 in connection with the repression of Iraq's Kurds in the 1987-88 Anfal campaign in which 180,000 died. Numan was handed down his death sentence last month over the violent suppression of an uprising of Shiite Mohammedans in south Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War.

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Iraq

Death penalty for three Saddam-era spies

2011-04-22

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's High Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced to death three Saddam Hussein-era spies convicted of assassinating the father of a sitting Iraqi lawmaker in Beirut in April 1994. "The court sentences to death Hadi Hassuni, Abdul Hassan al-Majid and Farukh Hijazi, who were agents of the intelligence services," tribunal spokesman Mohammed Abdul Saheb told AFP. Two other men, military intelligence chief Saber Duri and Saddam's secretary Abdul Hamid Mahmoud, were sentenced to life imprisonment at the conclusion of the trial, which began in October 2009. See the companion story from Aswat al-Iraq. Sabawi Ibrahim Hassan, the executed dictator's half-brother, and Saddam's deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz were acquitted in the trial. Those two will still swing, just not for this one. The convictions came over the murder of Sheikh Taleb al-Suhail al-Tamimi, head of the Banu Tamim tribe, who fled Iraq for the Lebanese capital with his family after a Baath Party coup in 1968. He later attempted his own coup against Saddam, who rose to power in 1979, but was gunned down outside his Beirut home on April 14, 1994. Lebanon severed its ties with Iraq in the aftermath of the killing, but arrested five Iraqi diplomats and one Lebanese accomplice over the assassination. All but one were released without charge, with one diplomat having died in prison in Lebanon. The other four diplomats later returned to Iraq only to flee after the 2003 US-led invasion that ousted Saddam. Tamimi's daughter, Safia al-Suhail, has been an Iraqi lawmaker since 2005. She was elected to the Council of Representatives in March 2010 polls as part of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's slate, but is now an independent lawmaker. "I am satisfied because I have expected this decision for 15 years, but at the same time I will continue my fight to bring to justice those who managed to escape and take refuge abroad," Suhail told AFP by telephone.

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Iraq

Tariq Aziz gets 15 years for crimes against humanity

2009-03-12

Tariq Aziz, formerly the urbane, Westernised frontman for Saddam Hussein and the only Christian in the Iraqi dictator's inner circle, was sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday for crimes against humanity. Aziz, who was the face of Saddam's regime for years, looked shocked when the sentence was given out at his trial in Baghdad and asked to sit down. He has been suffering ill health for some time. He was found guilty on four counts of crimes against humanity, including complicity in murder and torture in connection with the execution of 42 Iraqi merchants who had been accused by Saddam of being involved in increasing food prices at a time when the country was struggling under international sanctions. They were rounded up in July 1992 and executed soon after a quick trial. Prosecutors in the trial said that the former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister was complicit in the deaths because he was a member of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council that rubber-stamped Saddam's decision to have the merchants arrested. Aziz was one of those named on a US list of "most-wanted" regime members that was published in the form of a deck of cards. He was number 43. But the man often seen in public with a cigar in his mouth, and who tried to defend Saddam on the world stage, gave himself up soon after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003. In court he wore a blue jacket, black shirt and his trademark thick, black-rimmed glasses. After he was sentenced he kept his eyes closed as other defendants stood up to hear their sentences. Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan and Sabawi Ibrahim, director of public security - both half-brothers of Saddam - were sentenced to death on the same charges. Ali Hassan al-Majeed, better known as Chemical Ali - who has already been given three death sentences from previous cases - was also given a 15-year prison sentence for the death of the merchants.Three other defendants received sentences of life in prison, 15 years and six years. Issam Rashid Hweish, formerly of the Central Bank in Baghdad, was acquitted owing to lack of evidence.

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Iraq

Tariq Aziz gets 15 years in stir

2009-03-11

BAGHDAD, Iraq — An Iraqi court sentenced Iraq's former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, and Ali Hassan al-Majeed, a senior colleague of Saddam Hussein, to 15 years in prison today for their role in what the court deemed a crime against humanity, the killing of 42 merchants in Baghdad in 1992 for profiteering. The sentence was the first against Aziz, a fluent English speaker who was the public face of Hussein's government before turning himself into U.S. authorities a month after his government fell in April 2003. It comes less than two weeks after the 73-year-old Aziz was acquitted by the same court, Iraq's highest, in another case. Two of Hussein's half-brothers, Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan and Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, were sentenced to death for their role in the executions. "Long live Iraq! Long live Iraq! Down with the occupiers!" Sabawi al-Hassan shouted as the verdict was read in the courtroom. The men were among eight on trial for the killings of the Baghdad traders, accused at the time of racketeering while the country was under devastating U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. They were tried in a summary trial, then executed without being given the chance of appeal or defense. Abed Hammoud, Hussein's secretary, was sentenced to life in prison. Mizban Khidr Hadi, a top Baath Party official, was imprisoned for 15 years. A six-year term was handed down to Ahmad Hussein Khudier, the head of the presidential office. Essam Rasheed Huwaish, then governor of the Central Bank, was acquitted. Majeed already has three death sentences against him, the first in the case that gave him the moniker by which he is popularly known, "Chemical Ali." In June 2007, a court convicted him of genocide for ordering the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds in the 1988 Anfal campaign, when Iraqi forces fired poison gas on villages. Aziz was a well-known figure in Iraq, serving as foreign minister, then deputy prime minister. But he was never thought to wield real power within Hussein's inner circle. His family has complained that he is in poor health, suffering from heart and respiratory problems, along with high blood pressure and diabetes.

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Iraq

Chemical Ali court adjourned

2008-07-09

(VOI) - Iraq's Central Criminal Court on Tuesday decided to postpone its session on the trial regarding the execution of 40 merchants in 1992 to July 16 after hearing the plaintiffs' statements and the presentation of a corroborating documentary. The court began proceedings during Tuesday's session, headed by Raouf Abdel Rahmam Rasheed, by presenting a documentary showing the cutting of a merchant's hand who testified as an eyewitness. The merchant told the court 'security forces (in 1992) cut his right hand and mistreated him before he fled to the Netherlands as a political refugee via Amman.' Speaking behind a screen with a voice-distorting device to conceal his identity, the first eyewitness recalled 'how events took place four months before the execution of merchants in 1992,' adding 'his relative told him while he was in Amman that his father , an uncle, and a cousin were among the slain.' The court session concluded with Ali Hassan al-Majid, former president Saddam Hussein's step brother and his staunch henchman, who spoke about undergoing hard circumstances in the detention center. 'He has been severed from his family since his arrest in 2003,' he noted, adding 'he was allowed for contacting once this year for only ten minutes.' . One of the defendants, Sabawi Ibrahim, Saddam's second step-brother, denied any role, saying the agency that conducted the arrests was not affiliated with the public security forces, which he headed at the time.' The session witnessed a strained debate between Judge Raouf Rasheed and a defendant Sabawi before dismissing the latter from the courtroom. Tariq Aziz, the diplomat who served as the public face of Saddam Hussein's government, appeared in court on Tuesday accused of being part of a 'systematic campaign' to kill over 40 Iraqi merchants. The deaths came in a sweep conducted by the government in 1992 against merchants on charges of destroying Iraq's economy crushed by the imposed UN sanctions. The case is the fourth one to be run by the Criminal Court and the first for Tariq Aziz, Saddam' s best lieutenant who was promoted to deputy prime minister in the 1990's. The court is presided over by Judge Raoud Rasheed, who handed down the the death verdict to Saddam Hussein.

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Iraq

Prison chief held after Saddam nephew escapes

2006-12-11

BAGHDAD - An Iraqi prison chief and his deputy were under arrest on Sunday after Saddam Hussein’s nephew, accused of funding the Sunni insurgency, escaped jail a day earlier, sparking a huge manhunt by police. Ayman Al Sabawi, the son of Saddam’s half brother, Sabawi Ibrahim Al Tikriti, escaped Badoush prison near the northern city of Mosul on Saturday after the jail’s night watch commander told colleagues he was transferring him to another prison. Interior Ministry officials said they believed the commander had been bribed to help Sabawi escape. The night watch captain, whose family has also disappeared, convinced guards to free Sabawi after showing them a forged transfer form, they said. Gee, an inside job. Whoda thunk it? “The interior minister has ordered that a committee be formed to investigate (the escape) and the arrest of the head of the prison and his deputy,” ministry spokesman Major General Abdul Kareem Khalaf told state television. Mosul police said the two officials had been detained late on Saturday night and were being questioned on Sunday. Khalaf said officials thwarted a previous attempt by Sabawi to escape about a month ago. He said that plot had been engineered by a group of Saddamist sympathisers calling themselves Aawda (the Return Group). Sabawi, who was captured in a village near Mosul in 2004, had been serving a six-year sentence for funding the insurgency but was also wanted in connection with other crimes.

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Iraq

Saddam's Nephew Escapes Prison in Iraq

2006-12-09

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A nephew of Saddam Hussein serving a life sentence for making bombs for Iraq's insurgency escaped from prison Saturday in northern Iraq, authorities said. Ayman Sabawi, the son of Saddam's half brother Sabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti, fled the prison some 45 miles west of Mosul in the afternoon with the help of a police officer, according to local police Brig. Abdul Karim al-Jubouri. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf confirmed the escape but declined to elaborate. Sabawi was convicted of illegally crossing the border from Syria and sentenced to 15 years in prison late last year by an Iraqi court. He was sentenced to life in prison in an earlier case for possession of illegal weapons and manufacture of explosive devices. He was captured in May 2005 by security forces during a raid on Tikrit, the former leader's hometown. His father, who served as a presidential adviser before the U.S.-led invasion, was captured there two months earlier.

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