CCCI Sentences 14 to Life in Prison.........

This is where I work and who I work for. I was fortunate enough to be able to sit through this trial.


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The Central Criminal Court of Iraq
convicted 14 security detainees May 3
through May 9 for various crimes including
possessing illegal weapons and joining
terrorist groups.
The trial court found Ammar Fat’hi
Hassan Hussein guilty of violating Article
194 of the Iraqi Penal Code for joining
terrorist groups to endanger innocent
people’s lives and to unsettle the stability
and security of Iraq. They sentenced him to
life imprisonment.
Coalition Forces apprehended him for
being a cell leader in Abu Talha’s Mosul
Terror Cell. Three Iraqis who had been
tried and convicted of crimes related to
their membership in the MTC testified at
the trial against the defendant.
The trial court found Ra’ad Dawood
Salman Al Zobai guilty of violating
Coalition Provisional Authority Order No.
3 for possession of illegal weapons and
sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment.
Coalition Forces apprehended him after
discovering a weapons cache in his home
where they found 1,500 rounds of 7.72
mm ammunition, 50 AK-47 magazines, a
large quantity of soap, soldering irons, an
electronic multimeter test set, and Iraqi
police uniforms and documents.
Coalition Forces searched the yard
surrounding the house and discovered
timers, batteries, blasting caps, thirty feet of
detonation cord, five grenades, five pounds
of C-4 explosive, bags of gunpowder, small
arms ammunition, one artillery round,
one RPK machine gun and three RPG
launchers.
The trial court found Subhi Esmail
Trad, Ahmad Eubayid Sumair, Khudir
Abd Al Hamid Alwan, Auda Kalbush
Mutuk, Saladin Subhi Jubayir, Hussin
Silabi Authman, Rid Yusif Yakuh, Hussein
Karim Muhammad, Sahir Hamadallah
Adab, Abid Ibrahim Muhammad and Yasir
Ismail Ibrihim guilty of violating Coalition
Provisional Authority Order No. 3 for
possession of illegal weapons and sentenced
each of them to life imprisonment.
Coalition Forces apprehended them
after raiding a remote terrorist training camp
and finding two Draganov sniper rifles, 200
armor-piercing rounds, four machine guns,
one RPG launcher, 11 RPG rounds, five
AK-47 rifles with seven loaded magazines,
two 9 mm pistols, hundreds of rounds of
small arms and artillery ammunition, body
armor, night vision goggles, $10,000 in
U.S. currency and four wired cordless
phone base stations.
The trial court found Mohammed
Kamel Mussa guilty of violating Coalition
Provisional Authority Order No. 3 for
possession of illegal weapons and sentenced
him to six years imprisonment. Coalition
Forces apprehended him after finding 60
sticks of PE-4 explosive and two anti-tank
mines inside his residence and buried in
his backyard. The defendant confessed in
writing at the investigative hearing and at
trial to the material facts.
Upon conviction, all defendants are
turned over to the Iraqi Corrections Service
to serve their sentences.
To date, the CCCI has held 1053 trials
of insurgents suspected of anti-Iraqi and
anti-Coalition activities threatening the
security of Iraq and targeting MNF-I. These
proceedings have resulted in 948 individual
convictions with sentences ranging up to
death.