Baghdad radio announced today that four Iraqis were executed before dawn for allegedly spying for the United States. It said the four were all Moslems and did not specify the manner of their execution in the Baghdad Central Prison. Presumably they were hanged. The Iraqi regime drew world-wide condemnation and admonition from several Arab states when it hanged and publicly displayed the bodies of 14 Iraqis, nine of them Jews, in Baghdad and Basra last Jan. 27. The hanged men had been convicted of spying for Israel. Eight other alleged spies were hanged in Baghdad last Feb, 20, all of them Moslems.
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