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Saddam aides hanged, anger at beheading "mishap" (Half-brother's head popped off)
Reuters (excerpt) ^ | January 15, 2007

Posted on 01/15/2007 2:29:33 AM PST by HAL9000

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BAGHDAD, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Two of Saddam Hussein's aides were hanged before dawn on Monday, the Iraqi government said, admitting that the head of his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was also ripped from his body during the execution.

On the defensive after international uproar over sectarian taunts during the illicitly filmed hanging of the ousted president two weeks ago, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh insisted there was "no violation of procedure" during the executions of Barzan and former judge Awad Hamed al-Bander.

But defence lawyers and politicians from Saddam's once dominant Sunni Arab minority expressed fury at the fate of Barzan, Saddam's once feared intelligence chief, and there was also scepticism and condemnation of Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated government cross the mostly Sunni-ruled Arab world.

"The convicts were not subjected to any mistreatment," Dabbagh said describing the beheading by the rope as a rare mishap. "Their rights were not violated. There was no chanting."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barzanaltikriti; barzanibrahim; decapitation; iraq; oops; popgoestheweasel; saddamexecution; saddamhanging; saddamtrial
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1 posted on 01/15/2007 2:29:35 AM PST by HAL9000
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To: SevenofNine

ping


2 posted on 01/15/2007 2:33:15 AM PST by monkapotamus
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To: HAL9000

Pop Goes the Weasel....


3 posted on 01/15/2007 2:34:02 AM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Kozak

absolutely tasteless comment, Kozak!






(And may go down as one of the funniest! )


4 posted on 01/15/2007 2:36:20 AM PST by YaYa123
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To: HAL9000
"Their rights were not violated. There was no chanting."

Thank God there was no chanting. Imagine the horror of hearing chants three seconds before your head comes off your body.

5 posted on 01/15/2007 2:40:07 AM PST by Aeronaut (Hebrews 13:4)
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To: YaYa123

Beheaded by a rope or beheaded by a knife, you would never know the difference.


6 posted on 01/15/2007 2:41:08 AM PST by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: HAL9000

they can't even get a hangin right, they're supposed to set the drop length to the weight.


7 posted on 01/15/2007 2:41:22 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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To: HAL9000

ouch, thats gonna leave a mark


8 posted on 01/15/2007 2:43:50 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: IncPen

ping
You think the deceased will object?


9 posted on 01/15/2007 2:45:03 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Samurai_Jack

Probably has a bit to do with their age too. He was 57 or so, thinning skin?


10 posted on 01/15/2007 2:45:15 AM PST by Dave Elias
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To: HAL9000

Too many Doritos.


11 posted on 01/15/2007 2:47:35 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: Kozak

"Pop Goes the Weasel...."

Did he die?


12 posted on 01/15/2007 2:48:55 AM PST by lawdude (2006: The election"s we will live to die for!)
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To: Thrownatbirth

Smoked too many camels and goats.


13 posted on 01/15/2007 2:49:38 AM PST by battlegearboat
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To: Kozak

Champagne?


14 posted on 01/15/2007 2:52:22 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: HAL9000

Since the trash has no brains when their heads popped off did their bodies still run around like headless chickens?


15 posted on 01/15/2007 2:53:09 AM PST by dleecomeback07 (Does anyone have a QB the Bears can borrow?)
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To: HAL9000

May they meet their boss where the sun don't shine.


16 posted on 01/15/2007 2:54:42 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: HAL9000

This is common mishap with inexperienced hangmen. Rope length is very important to calculate based upon the weight of the scumbag you are hanging.


17 posted on 01/15/2007 2:58:39 AM PST by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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To: HAL9000

That'll happen on a long drop hanging from time to time.


18 posted on 01/15/2007 3:00:01 AM PST by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Yep...I saw that post-mortem pic of dead Saddam and there was a nasty gash around his neck where his head almost popped off. , where the rope was too lonf for his body weight. You'd think that their American advisors would go back and find some of the trade standards from Old West hangmen, who were quite professional in their craft and had everything down to a science.


19 posted on 01/15/2007 3:12:15 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: AZRepublican
This is common mishap with inexperienced hangmen.

I blame Bush. Bremer fired all the good executioners in Baghdad. /s
20 posted on 01/15/2007 3:12:34 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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