{"id":19257,"date":"2012-06-08T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T09:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19257"},"modified":"2012-06-08T12:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T09:15:32","slug":"iraq-executes-saddam-hussein-top-aide-19257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/iraq-executes-saddam-hussein-top-aide-19257\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq executes Saddam Hussein top aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/abid-hamid-0122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/abid-hamid-0122.jpg\" alt=\"Iraq executes Saddam Hussein top aide \" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<h1>Iraq executed Saddam Hussein\u00a0trusted personal and\u00a0presidential\u00a0secretary\u00a0Abed Hamid Mahmud.\u00a0Saddams Hussein \u00a0secretary and chief bodyguard Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti was executed by hanging for crimes of genocide relating to the suppression of Iraqi Shia Muslims.<\/h1>\n<p>Abed Hamid Mahmud was the latest in a series of former senior regime officials who have been executed by Iraq\u2019s new rulers since the toppling of Saddam Hussein during a United States-led invasion 9 years ago. His body was to be handed over to Mahmuds family later.<\/p>\n<h2>Abed Hamid Mahmud executed in Iraq<\/h2>\n<p>Abed Hamid Mahmond was a distant cousin of Saddam Hussein family. Al-Tikriti\u00a0was number 4 on the list of Iraqi officials targeted by American forces following the 2003 US-led invasion behind only Saddam Hussein and his 2 sons Uday and Qusay.<\/p>\n<p>A court official has told that personal secretary and bodyguard chief of dead Saddam Hussein\u00a0Abed Hamid Mahmud,\u00a0was executed for persecuting members of the Shiite opposition and religious parties that were banned under Hussein.Abed Hamid Mahmud was also among 15 high-profile defendants tried for their role in the uncerdible crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"headline\">Top Saddam aide executed in Iraq<\/h3>\n<p>Abed Hamid\u00a0Mahmond was the fifth former Saddam official to be executed in Iraq after the dictator. Others, including former prime minister Tareq Aziz and intelligence chief Sadoun Shakir, have been sentenced to death but are still being held in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The last official\u00a0execution of a former regime \u00a0was in the last two years in January 2010, when Saddam Hussein\u2019s notorious cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid known as \u201cChemical Ali\u201d for his role in poison gas attacks, was put to death by hanging.\u00a0Saddam Hussein\u2019s long-term foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death in 2010 and awaits execution.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq executed Saddam Hussein trusted personal and presidential secretary Abed Hamid Mahmud. Saddams Hussein  secretary and chief bodyguard Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti was executed by hanging for crimes of genocide relating to the suppression of Iraqi Shia Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,101,14],"tags":[24547,24551,24550,24553,2462,24549,24548,24552],"class_list":["post-19257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-world","tag-abed-hamid-mahmud","tag-executed-by-hanging","tag-executed-in-iraq","tag-iraq-executes-mahmud","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-saddam-hussein-aid","tag-saddam-hussein-top-aide","tag-top-saddam-aide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}