Iraqi official: Close Saddam aide executed
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June 8, 2012, Friday
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SADDAM Hussein's trusted personal secretary, once No. 4 on the US most-wanted list in Iraq, was executed by hanging yesterday, the Iraqi Justice Ministry said.
Abed Hamid Hmoud was the latest in a series of former senior regime officials executed by Iraq's new rulers since the toppling of Saddam during a US-led invasion nine years ago. His body was to be handed over to his family later yesterday, officials said.
Hmoud, a distant cousin of Saddam, was captured by US forces in June 2003, three months after the invasion. At the time, he was No. 4 on the list of wanted regime officials, after only Saddam and sons Qusai and Odai. He was known as the ace of diamonds on the US deck of cards that ranked leaders of Saddam's government.
Hmoud, in his mid-50s, was executed for persecuting members of the Shiite opposition and religious parties banned under Saddam, a court official said. Hmoud had also been among 15 defendants tried for their role in the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War.
As Saddam's presidential secretary, Hmoud controlled access to the Iraqi president. Like Saddam, executed in 2006, Hmoud was from the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit.
The previous execution of a former regime official was in January 2010 when Saddam's notorious cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," was put to death by hanging. Saddam's long-term foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death in 2010 and awaits execution.
Abed Hamid Hmoud was the latest in a series of former senior regime officials executed by Iraq's new rulers since the toppling of Saddam during a US-led invasion nine years ago. His body was to be handed over to his family later yesterday, officials said.
Hmoud, a distant cousin of Saddam, was captured by US forces in June 2003, three months after the invasion. At the time, he was No. 4 on the list of wanted regime officials, after only Saddam and sons Qusai and Odai. He was known as the ace of diamonds on the US deck of cards that ranked leaders of Saddam's government.
Hmoud, in his mid-50s, was executed for persecuting members of the Shiite opposition and religious parties banned under Saddam, a court official said. Hmoud had also been among 15 defendants tried for their role in the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War.
As Saddam's presidential secretary, Hmoud controlled access to the Iraqi president. Like Saddam, executed in 2006, Hmoud was from the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit.
The previous execution of a former regime official was in January 2010 when Saddam's notorious cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," was put to death by hanging. Saddam's long-term foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death in 2010 and awaits execution.
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