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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
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 48
World Notes
IRAQ
A Shocking Execution
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<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."
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</body>
</article>
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