Barzan Hassan and Awad Bandar Hanged

CNN is reporting that Saddam Hussein's half-brother, Barzan Hassan, the former chief of Hussein's secret police, and Awad Bandar, the chief judge under his Baath Party regime, were executed early Monday. Hassan and Bandar were sentenced to death in November for the executions of 148 people from the mostly Shiite Muslim village of Dujail after an unsuccessful attempt to kill Saddam Hussein. Their death sentences were upheld by an Iraqi appeals court in December but delayed amid the controversy surrounding Saddam Hussein's Dec. 30 execution.  [JH]