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If they're so eager to die a martyr's death, why do they object when someone kills them?
Buh-bye.
I don't get it: how do you hang half a brother? What happened to the other half?
It's not only possible but it is common for a head to be pulled from the body during hanging, much as a head can be wrung from a chicken. The possibility of rope beheading can usually be reduced by carefully adjusting the slack in the rope according to body weight and only allow the body to only fall far enough to ensure the neck will be broken.
(End of lesson 1: Hangman 101)
Aw, that's a shame!
Is it supposed to be "hanged" or "Hung"??
Like the old drill instructor used to say, "Hey yard bird, get your head and a$$ wired together!"
Anyone know if it's on YouTube or similar sites yet? :)
Reminds me of when Grandma used to kill the fryers and roasters. I used to help capture them. Had long heavy wire with a hook on the end. I would hook 'em like a bad act on amateur night.
They were right tasty too. Grandma was way ahead of her time. We had eggs from free range chickens way before it became "cool", the meat was firmer and less mushy too. It took us decades to get used to the store bought variety of both chicken and eggs, to the extent that we ever did. Now we buy the "cage free" eggs, and they actually do approach what we got from Grandma (or in my wife's case the lady down the road from Grandma, her grandma was allergic to chicken feather, although she had raised them at one time).
Botched hanging arouses suspicions
Jan 16, 2007
The botched hanging of Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan on Tuesday aroused Arab suspicions of foul play, deepening the divide between the Iraqi government and Arabs in other countries.
The noose pulled off Barzan al-Takriti's head as he fell from the gallows, suggesting that the hangman had misjudged the length of rope needed just to break his neck.
Government spokesman Ali Dabbagh said there was no "violation of procedure" in the hanging of Barzan and fellow convict Awad Hamed al-Bander, Saddam's former chief judge, for crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shi'ites.
But from Morocco to Yemen, ordinary Arabs cast doubt on the official explanation. Some recalled the chaotic and abusive treatment of Saddam Hussein when he was hanged on December 30.
Zaid al-Boudani, a shopkeeper in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, said: "I am very sad today, as many other Muslim Arabs are. This execution is part of the revenge campaign going on in Iraq. The way his head was ripped off shows hatred and revenge."
The president of Morocco's Human Rights Centre described the hangings as a barbaric and vengeful act carried out under external pressure, probably from Iran and the United States.
"We had never heard that the head of a hanged person was ripped from his body, only in this case, which mirrors the hatred and violence," said the president, Khaled Charkaoui.
Azzam Saleh Abdullah, Barzan's brother-in-law, told Al Jazeera in a telephone call that the Iraqi authorities had not informed the family in advance that the execution was imminent.
"We heard the news on television and were shocked. The Iraqi government should have informed us. They know the traditions very well," he added.
"As for ripping off his head, this is the Safavids' rancour. They only came to Iraq to commit revenge and shed Iraqi blood. They did not come for democracy or to build a state. May God curse this democracy," he said.
'Iraqi blood'
"Safavid" is a reference to the dynasty which established Shi'ite Islam as the Iranian state religion from the 16th century and which sometimes controlled parts of Iraq.
Hardline Iraqi Sunnis have started using the term to suggest that the Shi'ites are not true Iraqis.
Issam Ghazzawi, a Jordanian lawyer who saw Barzan on Friday, said he was convinced the decapitation was deliberate.
"His head was cut off after he was hanged to mutilate his body in an a barbaric act of revenge that is against any human values and is vigilante justice by a group of thugs," he said.
At the hanging of Saddam, the executioners shouted sectarian taunts at the former president, who was overthrown and captured after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.
The Moroccan Human Rights Association, the main independent human rights body in the North African country, said the hangings were a "criminal political assassination".
"The trial of Saddam Hussein and his aides by a pro-US Iraqi court lacks the conditions for a fair trial and makes the verdicts unjust and their hangings a criminal political assassination masterminded by American imperialism", it said.
Yemeni bus driver Hassan Mohammad agreed in blaming the US military presence. "Barzan is another victim of the American occupation in Iraq and the way he was executed shows how the Iraqi government is punishing (people) to avenge their rejection of American dominance and occupation," he said.
But some Arabs in the Gulf, where Saddam was not popular, said they were happy to see Barzan hang.
Ali al-Baghli, a leading Kuwaiti analyst and a former oil minister, said: "Justice has finally been done! ... (Barzan) committed a lot of crimes against humanity and at least he had undergone a legal trial."
"This is the rule of law... They deserved what they got. They cannot kill and torture without facing justice," added Mansoor Al-Jamri, editor of the independent Bahraini newspaper Al Wasat.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/960621
it's nothing to lose your head about...