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  • Saddam aides hanged, anger at beheading "mishap" (Half-brother's head popped off)

    01/15/2007 2:29:33 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 89 replies · 3,632+ views
    Reuters (excerpt) ^ | January 15, 2007
    Excerpt - 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...
  • Saddam half-brother, ex-official hanged

    01/14/2007 8:29:57 PM PST · by Perdogg · 55 replies · 1,962+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Jan. 14, 2007, 10:16PM | By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press Writer
    BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein's half brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism.