The Saddam Hussein hanging video was quite controversial in that many believed that the entire ordeal was handled poorly by the new government and the leaked cell phone video would be problematic for the fragile new democracy in Iraq. Now a new video shows Saddam after the hanging on a gurney with what appears to be a bloody and perhaps even slit throat.
New Purported Saddam Hussein Hanging Video Shows Bloody Aftermath
Fox News reports that the 27-second video, appears to show Saddam's body on a gurney, covered with a white shroud that is removed so the person videotaping has a clear shot at his head and neck. A large and gaping wound is visible on the neck.
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Securing the Body
Before 7 a.m., helicopters ferried Iraqi officials back to the Green Zone, along with Hussein's body. For nearly 17 hours, Maliki and his officials remained locked in a dispute with Sunni officials and leaders of Hussein's Albu Nasir tribe, with Maliki's officials refusing to release the body, saying they wanted no shrine to him. Throughout, the body, in a white shroud, remained inside the ambulance in the parking lot behind Maliki's office.
For the last time, the Americans intervened, flying a delegation from Hussein's hometown of Tikrit to Baghdad, and returning them 110 miles north again after Maliki, at close to midnight, agreed to let the body go.
It was transferred to a pine coffin, loaded onto the open back of a police pickup, and driven back to Landing Zone Washington, the Green Zone helipad.
Upset by events in the execution chamber, and concerned at attracting any fresh anger from Iraqi Sunnis, the Americans ordered their troops not to touch Hussein's body after the execution, even as it was loaded and unloaded from their helicopters. This left Iraqi officials to unload the stretcher carrying the body when the execution party returned to the Green Zone from the prison. Rubaie, the security adviser, said he helped carry the stretcher bearing the corpse from the helicopter to a waiting ambulance.
"We weren't walking, we were jogging" to the ambulance, he said. "This was a chapter we wanted to get done and finished with. We just wanted it to be over."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/06/news/web.0107SADDAM.php?page=4