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He was the head of the Revolutionary Court which issued death sentences against 143 Dujail residents, in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on the president on July 8, 1982 (a year before the United States assumed diplomatic ties with Hussein to help thwart their common enemy: Iran). At the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Dujail trial the Iraqi Special Tribunal tried al-Bandar for crimes against humanity for issuing the death sentences. On November 5, 2006, al-Bandar was sentenced to death by hanging along with co-defendants Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who was beheaded as a result of the hanging.
The sentence was widely expected to be carried out on December 30, 2006, shortly before 6:00 Department of Administration and Management Iraqi local time.
Hussein was hanged at 6:05 Department of Administration and Management Iraqi local time (0305 UTC). Initially, al-Tikriti and al-Bandar were also believed to have been hanged with him.
A few hours later, official statements clarified that the executions of al-Bandar and his remaining co-defendant had been postponed to give special significance to the day that Hussein was executed. The United States claimed that it did not have helicopters available to fly the remaining two to the place of execution.
The Iraqi government later said that they did not have time.
On January 3, 2007, an Iraqi government official told the Associated Press that preparations were under way to hang Saddam"s half-brother al-Tikriti, a former intelligence chief, and al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court on Thursday January 4, 2007. Both were hanged before dawn on January 15, 2007. They were pronounced dead at 3:05 Department of Administration and Management (0005 UTC).
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Bandar"s legal counsel was not allowed to attend.
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Bandar"s defence counsel comprised
Bader Awad Hamed Alsa’doon (Lead)
Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi (also: Sa’doon al-Janabi) - assassinated on 20 October 2005.