'Down with the occupiers,' his half-bro shouts as sentence is read
(NEWSER) - Saddam Hussein’s ex-foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, and his cousin “Chemical Ali” al-Majid were both sentenced today to 15 years in prison for their involvement in the 1992 execution of 42 Baghdad merchants. The pair was among eight defendants, and only one—then governor of Iraq’s central bank—was acquitted, the Washington Post reports. Two of Hussein’s half-brothers received death sentences. More»
