Word: tikritis
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...SALAM AL-TIKRITI, relative of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, asking Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki why Saddam Hussein's former secret-police chief was decapitated during his hanging, an accidental result of the rope's being too long...
...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...
...start, Saddam and his co-defendants--all charged with playing a role in the 1982 massacre in Dujail, a town north of Baghdad--have disrupted the trial by questioning the court's legitimacy and accusing the judges of being pawns of the U.S. When Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, Saddam's half brother and former spy chief, was forcibly removed from the room last week after calling the court a "child of adultery," Saddam and the entire defense team stormed out in protest. The trial, which is held in the hulking former Baath Party headquarters inside Baghdad's heavily guarded...
...chief of intelligence, Saddam's half-brother Barazan Ibrahim al-Tikriti is said to have commanded the Dujail reprisals...
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...