Iraq Executes Man For Role In 2003 Imam Ali Blast
The Imam Ali shrine in Al-Najaf (file photo) (epa)
Justice Ministry spokesman Busho Ibrahim said Oras Muhammad Abdul-Aziz was executed by hanging on July 3.
Iraq's Central Criminal Court in 2006 handed down a death sentence to Abdul-Aziz for his role in the August 2003 bombing of the Imam Ali shrine in Al-Najaf.
The blast killed at least 85 people, including leading moderate Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, then the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).
(AFP)
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