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May 19, 2008
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Iraq to execute Al Qaeda leader
BAGHDAD: A leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been sentenced to death for the killing of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, whose murder in March drew worldwide condemnation, the Iraqi government said on Sunday.
The Iraqi Central Criminal Court imposed the death sentence on Ahmed Ali Ahmed, known as Abu Omar, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement.
Rahho, the archbishop of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, was abducted on Feb. 29 after gunmen attacked his car and killed his driver and two guards. His body was found in a shallow grave two weeks later.
At the time, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed Al Qaeda and vowed to bring the bishop’s killers to justice.
His government has been accused by members of Iraq’s dwindling Christian minority of not doing enough to protect them from violent persecution.—Reuters
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