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Iraqi court sentences Saddam nephew to 15 years


BAGHDAD, Dec 6 (Reuters) - An Iraqi court sentenced a nephew of deposed leader Saddam Hussein to 15 years in prison for illegally crossing the Syrian border, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

The sentence, handed down on Monday, comes on top of a six-year term given to Ayman Sabawi in September after he was found guilty of financing insurgents and making bombs, the military said.

At that time, the Iraqi criminal court said Sabawi had been sentenced to life in prison.

Ayman, the son of Saddam's half-brother Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikrit, who is also in custody awaiting trial, first made the reference to the illegal border crossing during his September trial.