Criminal court resumes Merchants' execution case.Byline: SH (P)/SR BAGHDAD, Aug. 19 (VOI VOI Voice Over Internet VOI Volume of Interest (medical imaging) VOI Venus Orbit Insertion (NASA) VOI Value of Information (decision making) VOI Value of Investment ) - The Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court on Tuesday resumed its sessions of the trial related to the merchants' mass execution in 1992. Tareq Aziz
Tareq Aziz (Bengali: তারেক আজিজ) (born 4 September 1983 in Chittagong) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. , deputy premier of the former Iraqi regime (under Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. ), and seven other Iraqi former officials are being tried in this case. Chief Justice Raouf Abdul-Rahman Rasheed headed the session which began with hearing a prosecution witness, who spoke to the court from behind a curtain, with the use of voice alteration equipment, for security reasons. In 1992, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered the execution of 40 Iraqi merchants, accusing them of destroying the national economy under the embargo that was imposed on Iraq after the Iraqi invasion to Kuwait in 1990. Chief Justice Raouf Abdul-Rahman Rasheed was the head of the court that tried al-Dujail case, and he issued a death sentence for Saddam Hussein in that case. Saddam Hussein was hanged according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. that verdict. Copyright A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] 2008 Aswat al-Iraq
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