jimnyc
01-15-2007, 03:50 PM
Didn't see this posted anywhere yet. They hung the other 2 dirtbags overnight, and one of their heads popped off! :lmao:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq hanged two aides to Saddam Hussein before dawn on Monday but government efforts to avoid a repeat of uproar over the ousted leader's rowdy execution were thwarted when his half-brother's head was severed by the noose.
Many of the government's Shi'ite Muslim supporters rejoiced at the death of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's once feared intelligence chief who was accused of sending people to death in a meat grinder. But voices in Iraq's Sunni Arab minority saw the decapitation as a deliberate sectarian act of revenge.
Government spokesmen said the severing of Barzan's head was a rare hangman's blunder. Critics said it may have been partly a result of Barzan's illness with cancer.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-01-15T201218Z_01_MAC638878_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq hanged two aides to Saddam Hussein before dawn on Monday but government efforts to avoid a repeat of uproar over the ousted leader's rowdy execution were thwarted when his half-brother's head was severed by the noose.
Many of the government's Shi'ite Muslim supporters rejoiced at the death of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's once feared intelligence chief who was accused of sending people to death in a meat grinder. But voices in Iraq's Sunni Arab minority saw the decapitation as a deliberate sectarian act of revenge.
Government spokesmen said the severing of Barzan's head was a rare hangman's blunder. Critics said it may have been partly a result of Barzan's illness with cancer.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-01-15T201218Z_01_MAC638878_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&src=rss&rpc=22