Word: taha
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...scared, terrified, very terrified. You know how a man feels when he is about to be executed." BASSAM RIDHA adviser to Iraq's Prime Minister, describing the mood of former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan as Ramadan was led to the gallows on the morning of March...
BASSAM RIDHA, adviser to Iraq's Prime Minister, describing the mood of former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan as Ramadan was being led to the gallows on the morning of March...
...Joining Saddam on the gallows will be his cousin and enforcer, Barazan al-Tikriti, and Awad al-Bander, who presided over many of the dictator's kangaroo courts. Saddam's former vice president, Taha Yaseen Ramadan, got life and three lower-ranking officials were each sentenced to 15 years. One official was acquitted for lack of evidence...
Even before he became Vice President in 1991, Taha Yassin Ramadan was known as one of Saddam's top enforcers...
That was how it ended for Adel al-Zubaidi on a sunny afternoon in early November. The attorney defending Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti and former Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan was heading home from work with a colleague when two Opel sedans and two orange-and-white taxis boxed in his car on the busy main street of his neighborhood. Two men wearing jeans got out firing Russian-made PKC heavy machine guns, riddling the red Proton sedan with bullets, says al-Zubaidi's son-in-law, who arrived on the scene 10 minutes after...