Saddam aide decapitated in hanging - Democratic Underground

Herman Munster

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Mon Jan-15-07 08:10 PM
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Saddam aide decapitated in hanging

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2157383.ece

The head of Saddam Hussein's half-brother was ripped from his body when he was hanged at 3am yesterday, providing a ghoulish spectacle likely to deepen hatred between Sunni and Shia in Iraq.

A video tape of the execution of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, once Saddam's merciless intelligence chief, shows his hooded head lying some feet away from his body. The former judge, Awad Hamer al-Bander, was hanged with him.

"The convicts were not subjected to any mistreatment," said a government spokesman who claimed the accidental beheading was an act of God.

"Their rights were not violated. There was no chanting."

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Art_from_Ark

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Mon Jan-15-07 08:15 PM
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1. What did they hang him with? Razor wire?

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rockymountaindem

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Mon Jan-15-07 08:20 PM
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3. No, that just happens if they drop the condemned too far n/t

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DemBones DemBones

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Mon Jan-15-07 08:19 PM
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2. Capital punishment is barbaric,

worse so when it's botched.

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theoldman

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Mon Jan-15-07 08:35 PM
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4. He was old and weak. They dropped him too far.

Nice to know that these are our buddies. I have always heard that you are known by the company you keep. The Chinese use a bullet to the back of the head resulting in instant death. We consider them barbaric.

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Wed Jan-17-07 08:52 AM
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5. The barbaric thing in China is the rampant application.

You'll get the DP for taking a bribe of for selling cocaine, for example. It's hardly limited to murder. They're miles ahead of everybody else in number of executions -- even of the US and Saudi Arabia.

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