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Fugitive Iraqi denounces verdict

Sunni vice president says terror trial, death sentence a sham

By LARA JAKES AND SINAN SALAHEDDIN

Posted: September 11, 2012 at 3:17 a.m.

Iraq’s fugitive Sunni vice president on Monday declared his “absolute innocence” in a terror trial that had sentenced him to death on charges of masterminding the murder of rivals, and rejected the conviction against him as a politically motivated sham.

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