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From terrorism to legal Islamism: Iraqi Shia parliamentarian was sentenced to death for role in U.S. and French embassy bombings

February 7, 2007

Iraqi Parliamentarian Is Terror Convict
By Staff
Feb 6, 2007
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21262710.shtml

JSEXy="0">One of Iraq's members of parliament was sentenced to death in absentia by Kuwait in 1984 for terrorist activity, CNN reported Tuesday.

JSEXy="0">Jamal Jafaar Mohammed won a parliamentary seat representing an area south of Baghdad in December 2005, and is a member of the ruling Shiite Muslim coalition and the Iranian-backed paramilitary Badr Organization.

JSEXy="0">A Kuwaiti court sentenced Mohammed to death in 1984 for the December 1983 car bombings of the French and U.S. embassies that killed five people and injured 86 others.

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