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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has not seen the illicit video of Saddam Hussein's execution because he is focused on the "way forward" in Iraq, the White House said on Wednesday. Iraqi officials are facing criticism over a video of Saddam's hanging, apparently filmed on a mobile phone, that shows Shi'ite officials mocking the former Iraqi leader on the gallows. It angered Saddam's fellow Sunni Arabs and sparked international condemnation.......

The only original video tape hanging of Saddam Hussein was published on IRC last Saturday afternoon after a source inside Iraq made it available to us. We know for sure it the ONLY original, unedited tape, not like all the various manipulated and edited versions on the Internet. We are now being asked to reveal our source, and we WILL NOT, and we will fight for our Constitutional rights. We made need your help to protect us. We are being hounded by the media as well, so we've disconnected the phones. -Phil at IRC http://www.indierockcafe.com/2006/12/cell-phone-video-hanging-of-saddam.html

Warning. This is the video. Click on the link above.

June 24, 2004 -- AFTER terrorists beheaded Korean hostage Kim Sun-il, The New York Times kept the photo showing the horror of his final moments off yesterday's front page. Instead, the Times' front page bizarrely describes Kim as "sitting or kneeling quietly" as he waited to die — in reality the photo, back on Page A-11, shows Kim with his mouth open wide in terror, and the video shows him shaking with fear. It's just the latest instance of how the press often hesitates to show the true savagery of America's enemies in the War on Terror, whether al Qaeda...