[Marxism] 13 resistance fighters hanged by puppet Iraqi government

[Andrew Pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

The NY Times is going ga-ga today about alleged executions by alleged  al-Sadr 
street gangs. Meanwhile the "legal" execution of resistance  fighters late last 
week has gone almost completely unnoticed.
  What group did they belong to? What crimes were they convicted of? What was 
their defense?
  We're not likely to find out. Not for them, or for the many more like them to 
come.
  Add THIS to your undercounted bodies!
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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-iraq10mar10,1,4751074.story?coll=la-news-a_section
  From the Los Angeles Times
            13 Convicted Insurgents Are Executed in Iraq           Move  comes 
as Premier Jafari faces criticism that he has been ineffective  against rebels. 
U.S. confirms it will hand over Abu Ghraib prison.
                          By Louise Roug
                       Times Staff Writer

                 March 10, 2006

    BAGHDAD ? Iraqi authorities Thursday hanged 13 prisoners, including a  
woman, convicted of being insurgents, said an official who was present.

  The  executions, which were authorized by the Iraqi government, were the  
first to involve insurgents. It was the second time since Saddam  Hussein's 
ouster in 2003 that the death penalty was carried out.

  The  hangings come at a time when interim Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari's  
bid to keep his position in a new government has been questioned by  Iraqi 
political factions.

  "The prime minister is not soft,"  said Bassam Ridha, a Jafari advisor who 
witnessed the executions. He  dismissed the timing as coincidence.

  "The new Iraq will have to have a different flavor ? harsh on the criminals," 
Ridha said.
  [snip]

                
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