home

Tag: iraq hangings

Saddam's Half-Brother Beheaded by the Hanging Noose

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Mon Jan 15, 2007 at 02:04:09 PM EST
Tags: iraq hangings (all tags)
Share This: Digg! StumbleUpon del.icio.us reddit reddit


[Illustration, not a photo of this hanging]

Absolutely gruesome:

...as the trapdoors swung open, they dropped and the rope severed the hooded head of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's younger half-brother and former intelligence chief.

Government officials said they had decided not to distribute any part of the film to the public.

Iraq says the beheading was caused by a hangman's error "in setting the noose or the length of the rope."

They showed the video to journalists because there was no possibility of a cover-up...the bodies were being turned over to families for burial.

Here's a video of a BBC journalist describing the hanging video.

(19 comments, 244 words in story) There's More :: Permalink :: Comments