Saddam Hussein trial judge executed by ISIS

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The judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death has been captured and executed by ISIS militants, it is claimed.

Raouf Abdul Rahman, who sentenced the Hussein to death by hanging in 2006, was reportedly killed by rebels in retaliation for the execution of the 69-year-old.

His death has not been confirmed by the Iraqi government, but officials had not denied reports of his capture last week. He is believed to have been arrested on June 16, and died two days later.

Jordanian MP Khalil Attieh wrote on his Facebook page that Judge Rahman, who had headed the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal during Saddam's trial, had been arrested and sentenced to death.

'Iraqi revolutionaries arrested him and sentenced him to death in retaliation for the death of the martyr Saddam Hussein,' he said, according to Al-Mesyroon.

Attieh also said that Judge Rahman had unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Baghdad disguised in a dancer's costume.

The Facebook page for Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam's former deputy who has emerged as a key figure among the Sunni militants, also posted that the rebels had been able to arrest Judge Rahman.

Judge Rahmann, who was born in the Kurdish town of Halabja, took over midway through the trial in January 2006 after previous judge Rizgar Amin was criticised for being too lenient in his dealings with Hussein and his co-defendants.

The father of three had graduated from Baghdad University's law school in 1963 and worked as a lawyer before he was appointed as the chief judge of the Kurdistan Appeals Court in 1996. (Daily Mail)

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Dilshan Fernando Monday, 23 June 2014 04:04 PM

This is the real religious extremism.

Devapriya mendisypu Monday, 23 June 2014 04:19 PM

Good lesson for nosy Yankees & their collies all over the world for poking into internal affairs of sovereign countries on cooked up lies & no sane Iraqi will ever believe sadam could have brought so much of destruction to once a proud nation to utter disgrace due to us uk & allied butchers

Don Don Monday, 23 June 2014 05:54 PM

Mills of God grinds slowly, but surely.

Prem Monday, 23 June 2014 05:57 PM

Fair funishment for unfair judgement.

HambanGOiya Tuesday, 24 June 2014 04:11 AM

Just can imagine... what they would do if Bush duo had been arrested?

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