IRAQ. TWO IRAQI’S SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FOILED ATTACKS ON S. KOREAN MILITARY

September 19, 2006: two Iraqi’s who attempted to bomb the South Korean military facilities in Iraq were sentenced to death.
The men were accused of firing four rockets at the compound of South Korea's Zaytun Division in Iraq’s northeastern city of Irbil in May 2005. In July of the same year the suspects were arrested by Kurdish authorities and confessed to the crime. "The bombs exploded near the compound, not inside it. There were no South Korean casualties," a South Korean military official said, asking to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the information.
South Korea had imposed a news blackout on the incident. The suspects, who belong to the local terrorist organization Ansar Alsunna, were sentenced to death for attempted attacks on military facilities, according to South Korea and Kurdish officials. (Sources: Yonhap News, 19/09/2006)