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- <text id=90TT0731>
- <title>
- Mar. 26, 1990: World Notes:Iraq
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 48
- World Notes
- IRAQ
- A Shocking Execution
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Last week the world was shocked when Farzad Bazoft, a
- British-based Iranian-born journalist, was hanged in Baghdad
- after being convicted on charges of having spied for Israel and
- Britain. Bazoft, 31, was arrested last September while on
- assignment for the British weekly the Observer. He had been
- investigating a mysterious explosion that reportedly killed
- hundreds of workers at a military complex south of Baghdad.
- Daphne Parish, 53, a British nurse who drove Bazoft to the
- site, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
- </p>
- <p> Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally appealed to
- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for clemency, but to no avail.
- After the hanging, Iraqi Information Minister Latif Nassif
- Jassim told journalists, "Mrs. Thatcher wanted him alive. We
- gave her the body."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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