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December 26, 2006
Saddam To Die Within 30 Days
Lost his appeal. The clock ticks.
An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that Saddam Hussein should hang for crimes against humanity, Iraq's national security adviser told Reuters.
Under the statute governing the Iraqi High Tribunal, the death sentence must be carried out within the next 30 days.
The former Iraqi leader and two former aides were sentenced to death in November for crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shi'ites from the town of Dujail after he escaped assassination there in 1982.
"The court just upheld the verdict and sentence," Iraq's national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told Reuters.
Old by now, but good news.