Saddam's former chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bandarhad reacts after being sentenced to death during his trial in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad in this Nov. 5, 2006 file photo. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

Saddam Hussein (2nd R) chats with his intelligence chief and half-brother, Barzan al-Tikriti (2nd L) as his sons Uday (L) and Qusay walk past in an undated holiday photo from the private archive of an official photographer for the regime. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

    BAGHDAD, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Saddam Hussein's two co-defendants, his half brother and the former chief of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were hanged before dawn on Monday, CNN reported.

    Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother, and Awad Hamed al-Bandarhad been found guilty along with Saddam of the killing of nearly 150 Shiites in Dujail village, some 60 km north of Baghdad, following a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader.

    The execution came two weeks and two days after Saddam's execution on Dec. 30, which drew a mixed reaction from around the world.

    On Jan. 6, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Iraq to suspend the execution of "those whose death sentences may be carried out in the near future."

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Date of Saddam codefendants to be executed not sure

    BAGHDAD, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Reports conflicted on Wednesday about the date of executing Saddam's two codefendants for crimes against humanity in the Dujail case.

    Both Saddam's half brother Barzan Ibrahim, a former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, are to be hanged on Thursday, Dubai-based al-Arabiyah TV reported.