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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein yells at the
court as he receives his verdict during his trial held under tight
security in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone November 5, 2006.
(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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BEIJING, Nov. 6 -- Former Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein has been sentenced to death. The country's High Tribunal found him
guilty of crimes against humanity for the killings that followed an attempt to
assassinate him in 1982.
Saddam initially refused the judge's order to rise.
Two bailiffs lifted Saddam to his feet and he remained standing through the
sentencing. Saddam shouted, "Long live Iraq. Long live the nation. God is
greater than the occupiers."
The court also sentenced two other defendants to
death. Saddam's cousin Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and his chief judge Awad
al-Bandar. Former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan was sentenced to life in
prison.
The charges stemmed from the killing of 148 Shi'ite
men in Dujail after an assassination attempt against Saddam in 1982. A death
sentence or life imprisonment generates an automatic appeal, delaying any
execution by months at least.
(Source: CCTV)
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