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...senior Iraqi official tells Time. After all, Hashem was no ordinary criminal. Saddam Hussein's last Defense Minister had been condemned to death by an Iraqi court for his role in the slaughter of thousands of Kurds. Like his former boss before him, Hashem was held in Camp Cropper, a U.S. military base on the outskirts of Baghdad, and would have to be flown to his execution by U.S. military helicopter. The Iraqi government planned to hang Hashem at 3 a.m. on the anniversary of 9/11. A speech had been written for the occasion, to be delivered by an Iraqi...
...Iraqi government had planned to carry out his death sentence at 3 a.m. on the sixth anniversary of 9/11. But Hashem, like all high-value prisoners from the former regime, was in U.S. custody. And at 10 p.m., word came that the helicopter from the U.S. prison at Camp Cropper was not coming, and the condemned man would not be handed over. Hashem's life was spared - for the moment...
...They don’t even give considerations for Harvard housing if you have children,” said Marie Cropper, a Ph.D candidate in public policy who has an adolescent daughter. “Moving farther away from campus can be cheaper, but the up-front cost...
...advised many students. “I think she was unique because many of the students she advised won the best thesis award,” Mares says. “She put every effort to help them produce a high-quality work.” Porsha Q. Cropper was one of Gay’s advisees at Stanford and followed her to Harvard.“You don’t just write a paper and get an A,” Cropper says. “She expects the best from her students and they give...
...documented deaths of prisoners in detention, Miles found, medical death certificates were often not issued until months or even years after the actual deaths. One prisoner's corpse at Camp Cropper was kept for two weeks before his family or criminal investigators were notified. The body was then left at a local hospital with a certificate attributing death to "sudden brainstem compression." The hospital's own autopsy found that the man had died of a massive blow to the head. Another certificate claimed a 63-year-old prisoner had died of "cardiovascular disease and a buildup of fluid around...