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Iraqi officials ‘held over coup plot’
Iraq has arrested about 50 interior ministry officials for plotting a coup against the Shi’ite-led government, it was reported on Thursday.
‘Chemical Ali’ gets second death sentence
Saddam Hussein’s notorious hatchet-man, Hassan al-Majid, was on Tuesday sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1991 Shi’ite uprising.