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Headlines : "War on Terror"Iraq PM Orders Probe into Saddam's Execution Video
Saddam and the witnesses were flown by helicopter from one U.S. base to another U.S. military facility within Baghdad’s “green zone” for this execution.
Those in attendance and participating in Saddam’s hanging were certainly security screened by U.S. military personnel.
The person in possession of the camera phone in question either bypassed this security or was allowed to have it.
Hindsight is 20/20.
Another case of the U.S. government and occupation forces in Iraq providing the opportunity for the sowing of more seeds of further sectarian strife.
While the press has largely blamed this incident on the ineptitude of the Iraqi central government, the circumstances of the execution were under direct American control.
[Posted By GWHunta]Republished from Associated Press / Yahoo News
The video contained audio of some witnesses taunting Saddam with chants of “Muqtada” and of the former leader responding that his tormentors were being unmanly. It surfaced on Al-Jazeera television and the Internet late Saturday, the day Saddam was hanged.
The taunts referred to Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric who is a main backer of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Shiite leader who pushed for a quick execution of Saddam.
Al-Jazeera said when it broadcast the video that it was exclusive to them. The pictures appeared on the Web at about the same time.
Sami al-Askar, a close al-Maliki political adviser, told The Associated Press that the Iraqi leader had “ordered the formation of an investigative committee in the Interior Ministry to identify who chanted slogans inside the execution chamber and who filmed the execution and sent it to the media.”
The video was particularly inflammatory not only because the disrespectful chanting was clearly audible, but also because it showed Saddam’s death as he dropped through the gallows floor and then swung by his neck, his eyes open and neck twisted dramatically to his right.
Posted by GWHunta
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