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that found him guilty of two murders. Abdul Sattar al-Berqdar, a spokesman for Iraq's
Supreme Judicial Council, said that Hashimi was sentenced to hang "because he was involved directly in killing a female lawyer and a general with the Iraqi army." A third charge against Hashimi was dismissed for
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Safavid prisons". The Iraqi government executed at least 26 people in August, many of them on terrorism charges.
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killed at least 7 and injured 17 others, most of them police recruits. Earlier in the day, two car bombs and an IED blast killed seven and injured at least 40 others. Roadside blasts in the Sunni towns of Hawija and Ar Riyad nearby injured at least
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killed 16 people and wounded around 100 others outside a Shi'ite shrine. After the local hospital quickly became overwhelmed, residents were forced to use the mosque's loudspeakers, usually reserved for the call to prayer, to ask for blood
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Baghdad, killing 32 and injuring 102 others. Iraqi sources later revised the death toll to at least 51.
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770:. Inquirer. Agence France-Presse. 9 September 2012.
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794:"Insurgents Carry Out Wave of Attacks Across Iraq"
733:"Insurgents Carry Out Wave of Attacks Across Iraq"
698:"Explosions kill 58 in Iraq, French consulate hit"
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532:An explosion at the offices of an oil company in
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669:List of terrorist incidents, July–December 2012
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1018:"Insurgents Stage Deadly Attacks Across Iraq"
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1060:Bombings in the Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)
985:"al-qaeda claims latest deadly Iraq attacks"
969:. Thomson Reuters Foundation. Archived from
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1100:Terrorist incidents in Baghdad in the 2010s
489:and his son-in-law were sentenced to death
482:During the afternoon hours, fugitive Iraqi
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917:"Death toll rises to 51 in Baghdad blasts"
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1125:21st century in Nineveh Governorate
1090:Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2012
1065:Islamic terrorist incidents in 2012
961:Salman, Raheem (9 September 2012).
938:Raheem, Kareem (9 September 2012).
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