11 executed in Iraq

November 17th, 2011 - 8:39 pm ICT by IANS  

Baghdad, Nov 17 (IANS/AKI) Eleven people were executed Thursday in Iraq for their involvement in terrorist activities, the justice ministry said.

Among those executed was a Tunisian national who detonated a bomb at a Shiite shrine in 2006.

The Tunisian was convicted for bombing the Askari shrine, a spokesman for the ministry of justice said.

The bombing in February 2006 caused no casualties but more than 1,000 people were killed in violence that followed it, according to reports.

–IANS/AKI
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