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Iraq's vice-president Tareq al-Hashemi has been sentenced death for murder likely to further stoke sectarian tensions after bombings killed 100 people across the country.Hashemi fled Iraq after authorities accused him of running a death squad, The vice president is unlikely to return to Iraq He had accused during the last uprising Shia prime minister Nuri al-Maliki of a crackdown on Sunni opponents and refused to appear in court Hashemi and his son-in-law were found guilty of murdering a lawyer and security official Hashemi's lawyer said there would be no appeal because the trial was conducted absentia. many witnesses heard the bomb.Since the US troops left, Maliki's Shia-led government has been in political insurgents continue .Hours before the sentencing was announced, a wave of bombings and shootings killed people across the country Nassiriya where a bomb hit a French consular.The bombings happened near the city of Amara, 300m south of Baghdad, when two bombs exploded outside a Shia shrine and market place gunmen and a suicide car bomber attacked a military , killing 12 soldiers many people were seen to be holding back tears among the devastation and some policeman were openly sobbing. malik shazzar i witness to the car bomb said she was devastated by the bombing and her sister was at home for fear of going outside.