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    Iraqi court orders arrest of Trump over killing of paramilitary commander an hour ago -

    An investigation has commenced over the alleged role Donald Trump played in the killing of a top Iraqi paramilitary commander - A court in Baghdad said the US president has questions to answer over the death of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis It is unlikely that Trump would face any punitive action over Al-Muhandis' death An arrest warrant has been issued for the outgoing president of the United States of America, Donald Trump.

    The warrant was issued by a court in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, January 7, as part of its investigation into the killing of top Iraqi paramilitary commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in 2020, Forbes reported. Al-Muhandis was killed in a targeted US drone strike alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guard general, Qassem Soleimani, outside the Iraqi capital’s airport in January last year. The US president later disclosed that he ordered the strike on the motorcade that killed the two men. According to Aljazeera, the court said the decision to issue the warrant:

    “Was made after the judge recorded the statements of the claimants from the family of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis." The warrant was issued under Article 406 of the penal code which provides for the death penalty in all cases of premeditated murder. The order by the Baghdad court comes after Iran issued its own arrest requests, via the international police agency Interpol over the drone strike that killed Iranian general, Qassim Soleimani. A Tehran prosecutor, Ali Alqasimehr, accused Trump, and more than 30 others of being involved in the attack that killed the general. In another report, Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff and current special envoy to Northern Ireland has resigned. He told CNBC in an interview this morning that he called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last night and resigned. Mulvaney called Pompeo on Wednesday, January 6, to notify him of his resignation, stressing that he could no longer stay.

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    February 19, 2021

    Iraqi woman to be hanged for killing her 2 children

    Footage from surveillance cameras showed her tossing them into the Tigris

    By Ramadan Al Sherbini
    Gulf News

    Cairo: An Iraqi court has sentenced a woman to death by hanging after convicting her of throwing her two children into a river in a case that triggered shockwaves in the country.

    The case dates back to last October when the 21-year-old woman was captured on surveillance cameras while throwing the two children over the Al Aimmah bridge into the Tigris River in the capital Baghdad. The victims were aged two and three years.

    The murder unleashed outrage in Iraq and demands to mete out the toughest penalty to the killer.

    Marital dispute

    The woman was arrested and cited in investigations a dispute with her ex-husband as the motive for the crime.

    A criminal court in Baghdad Thursday sentenced the woman to death by hanging twice, according to media reports. The verdict can be appealed.

    The children’s parental grandpa had earlier claimed that his son divorced the woman because of infidelity, but allowed her to continue to see them after he had won a custody case at court.

    https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/iraq...ren-1.77310267

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    Iraq executes 3 'terrorism' convicts: local officials

    • Last month, Iraqi authorities revealed that they had more than 340 execution orders "for terrorism or criminal acts" that were ready to be carried out.

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    NASIRIYAH: Iraq on Wednesday hanged three men convicted on "terrorism" charges in a notorious southern prison, local officials said, despite repeated international condemnations of the country's execution record.

    The officials said the three Iraqis were executed in Nasiriyah prison in Dhi Qar province, the only detention centre in the country that carries out capital punishment.

    A 2005 law carries the death penalty for anyone convicted of "terrorism," which can include membership of an extremist group, even if the convict is not found guilty of specific acts.

    Since declaring the Islamic State group defeated in late 2017, Iraq has condemned hundreds of its own citizens to death for membership of the jihadist group.

    But only a small proportion of the sentences have been carried out, as they must be approved by the country's president -- currently Barham Saleh, who is known to be against capital punishment on a personal level.

    Last month, Iraqi authorities revealed that they had more than 340 execution orders "for terrorism or criminal acts" that were ready to be carried out.

    A presidential source told AFP at the time that a majority of those approvals dated back to before Saleh became president.

    Wednesday's group execution was the third known execution this year alone.

    The first, which saw three people hanged in late January, came just days after a twin suicide attack on Baghdad that killed at least 32 people and was claimed by IS.

    Despite Saleh's moderating influence, Iraq in 2019 carried out the fourth highest number of executions among nations worldwide, after China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International.

    Although there are no public records for 2020, judicial sources told AFP at least 30 executions took place last year.

    In 2021, at least 11 people have been hanged already, according to local officials in Nasiriyah.

    https://www.brecorder.com/news/40069...ocal-officials

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    Three hanged for Iraq bombing that killed more than 300 people

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    Iraq has hanged three people convicted of involvement in a vehicle bombing in Baghdad that killed more than 300 people and injured hundreds in 2016.

    It was the deadliest single bombing in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.

    The Islamic State group (IS) said it had carried out the attack.

    Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's office did not name those executed or say when they had been sentenced. The executions were carried out on Sunday and Monday, it said.

    A government source told AFP news agency that Ghazwan al-Zawbaee, held to be the IS mastermind behind the attack, was among those put to death. Zawbaee had been captured and returned to Iraq in 2021.

    The prime minister informed victims' families that "the rightful punishment of death sentence" had been carried out against "three key criminals found guilty of their involvement in the terrorist bombing", his office said.

    On 3 July 2016 a vehicle filled with explosives was blown up next to a crowded shopping centre in Karrada, a mainly Shia Muslim area of the Iraqi capital.

    People had been enjoying a night out after breaking their daily fasts for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

    Many of the victims were killed by a fire that ripped through the building after the bomb blast.

    Interior Minister Mohammed Ghabban resigned in the wake of the blast.

    The then-Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, accused Zawbaee of being the "primary culprit" behind that attack and "many others".

    IS, a Sunni Muslim group, once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from eastern Iraq to western Syria and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.

    Despite the group's defeat on the battlefield in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, it is estimated that thousands of militants remain active in both countries.

    In March, the UN estimated that IS still had "5,000 to 7,000 members and supporters" across Iraq and neighbouring Syria, "roughly half of whom are fighters".

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66643208
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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