Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during a Press conference about the upcoming elections in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. al-Hashemi vetoed part of a key election law, throwing national polls slated for January and a planned U.S. troop draw-down into question. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
A U.S.-backed Sunni militia leader whose arrest provoked violence between Sunni fighters and forces of Iraq's Shi'ite-led government has been sentenced to death for murder and kidnapping, a court spokesman said on Thursday
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