25/11/2011

Iraq Executes 12 al-Qaeda Over Wedding Massacre

A total of 12 al-Qaeda members convicted for the massacre of 70 people at a wedding massacre have been executed in Iraq.

The 12 members were officially put to death for the murders of cooking gas salesmen, though they were also convicted of involvement in the 2006 wedding massacre, Busho Ibrahim told Sky News Australia.


The terrorists were found to be responsible for the killing of a wedding party celebrating the marriage of a Shi'ite man to a Sunni woman in the Taji area in 2006.

Fifteen people were convicted of the crimes, but 'three of them were not executed today because we still have legal procedures to deal with', the minister added.

(GK)

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