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Car bombs in Iraq: 13 dead, 22
injured
BAGHDAD, January 4 (PL) .—At least 13 people died
and another 22 were injured when two car bombs
exploded in unison in the Sunni neighborhood of West
Al Mansur, the police reported.
The cars blew up when dozens of people were waiting
in line at a gas station, witnesses said, adding
that the detonations caused a lot of material damage
to buildings and vehicles parked in the area.
Meanwhile, the execution this Thursday of senior
officials linked to the government of Saddam
Hussein, his stepbrother Barzan al Tikrit and Judge
Awad al Bandar, was postponed by the Cabinet of
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki.
A
Shiite deputy commented that the execution could
take place this Sunday, while another source close
to the head of the executive stated that
“international pressure and that of the Arab world”
have prevented the sentence being carried out for
the time being.
Al Bandar and Al Tikrit were sentenced to death on
November 5 together with the former Iraqi president
after being found guilty of the death of 148 Shiites
in the locality of Dujail in 1982.
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