BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the chief judge under his Baath Party regime followed him to the gallows early Monday, hanged for their roles in the killings of 148 men and boys after a 1982 assassination attempt, a defense lawyer said.
Barzan Hassan, the former chief of his secret police, and Awad Bandar, the country's former chief judge under the former regime, were hanged about 5 a.m. Monday (9 p.m. Sunday ET), said Badee Aref, a defense lawyer for several of the former regime officials.
A source in the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki confirmed the executions had taken place.
A close source to the Iraqi High Tribunal told CNN that both men were executed at the same location where Hussein had been executed and a building where Hussein's intelligence officers had hanged so many others. The men were executed at the same time, the source said.
Hassan and Bandar were sentenced to death in November for the executions of 148 people from the mostly-Shiite Muslim village of Dujail after an unsuccessful attempt to kill Hussein. Their death sentences were upheld by an Iraqi appeals court in December but delayed amid the controversy surrounding Hussein's Dec. 30 execution.
Mobile-phone video of Hussein's hanging showed Shiite guards taunting the Sunni former dictator on the scaffold, outraging other Sunnis and sparking criticism of the execution as a sectarian lynching.
So, one of them was beheaded by the rope. Is that a special insult for Muslims, because I know that was a punishment for some offenders of Islam in early days.
Quite simply, the road has come to an end. The person is not Muslim so it would be very hypocritical to pray for them to become Muslim at this point.
We do not know the outcome of Allah's (swt) justice for them.
We will offer condolances to the families if we know the family, however for the deceased we do not believe our prayers would be of any benefit to them after death.
the guy killed 148 people, i dont understand how anyone could pray for somebody like that
When a person who has professed to be a Muslim. We pray that they have died as a Muslim and that Allah(swt) will have returned them to the "sirat mustaqeem" prior to death and that they are being judged as a Muslim.
Also all Muslims are part of the Ummah and we have no way nor right to question if the person did or did not die as a Muslim. We have to think in terms that the person during his last breath died as a true Muslim.
We know that after Death we can no longer change the outcome of the person's fate. But, we can express concern that the person died as a Muslim and was walking the "Sirat Mustaqeem" at the moment of death, no matter what we heard or saw during that person's life.
These are my own understandings and parphrased thoughts . Astagfirullah
i hope they dont show any images about the hanging... no more kids to copycat that act...
and for the family of the victims who died in copycat hangings because of the images shown on tv and internet... they should sue the Iraqi government for alowing those images to be shown worldwide...
howd u know i was turkish.?..and u live in one of the houses originating from the M.F.G foundation dnt u....so do i...but in Australia. this is so cool.its so nice interacting with real 'hizmet' people.(if u dnt know whta that is u can ask ur housemates.
You told me you were turkish in a private message before. I couldn't write you back since I'm a limited member.
i hope they dont show any images about the hanging... no more kids to copycat that act...
and for the family of the victims who died in copycat hangings because of the images shown on tv and internet... they should sue the Iraqi government for alowing those images to be shown worldwide...
they released the video of the new hanging, and it's more violent than the first one.
the guy killed 148 people, i dont understand how anyone could pray for somebody like that
OMG! Those were my exact words a couple years back! Dude, you're freaking me out! Trust me, when you see enough of this world, you'll learn to pray for 'somebody like that'. You pray for people who need them, not for people who don't.
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