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In sight of a new hemp noose hanging from the ceiling, the executioners removed his handcuffs to tie his hands behind his back. As he stood close to the trapdoor one wrapped a black scarf around his neck to shield it from rope burns.
When they went to put the black hood over his head, he mumbled: “That won’t be necessary.” The noose was slipped over his head.
He stood looking almost bewildered, and an executioner awkwardly tightened the hand-coiled knot of the noose on the left side of his neck.
Even on the brink of death Saddam had not forgotten the video camera. Just before he dropped through a trapdoor on a platform surrounded by red railing, he shouted the Muslim profession of faith, “God is great and Muhammad is his prophet” and “Palestine is Arab”.
“He was standing with the rope round his neck,” said Rubaie. “The executioner started reading verses from the Koran, ‘There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger’. He repeated it twice and [Saddam] went down in no time.” The hangman pulled a lever, and Saddam dropped silently about 3ft through a metal trapdoor. It was 6.10am. Rubaie said he died instantly. “It was so, so quick, totally painless and there was no movement after that.”
Sami al-Askari, who represented the prime minister at the hanging, said he “heard his neck snap”.
Saddam hung from the rope for about 10 minutes, watched by the audience of about 15 people who could see him dangling under the platform. A doctor checked that his heart had stopped, then one of the executioners untied him. There was blood on the rope. The executioners put him in a white body bag and took photographs as proof for diehard loyalists that Saddam was dead. Iraqi television broadcast a still photograph of the last image of the dictator, his neck at an unnatural angle, sticking out of the white shroud.
Munir Haddad, an Iraqi appeals court judge, also witnessed the execution. He said afterwards: “One of the guards present asked Saddam Hussein whether he was afraid of dying. Saddam said, ‘Why would I? I spent my whole life fighting the infidels and the intruders.’
“Another guard asked him, ‘Why did you destroy Iraq, and destroy us? You starved us, and you allowed the Americans to occupy us’. His reply was, ‘I destroyed the invaders and . . . I destroyed the enemies of Iraq, and I turned Iraq from poverty into wealth’.
“Saddam was normal and in full control. He said, ‘This is my end. I started my life as a fighter and as a political militant. So death does not frighten me’.
“He said, ‘We’re going to heaven, and our enemies will rot in hell’.
“When he was taken to the gallows, the guards tried to put a hood on his head, but he refused. Then he recited verses from the Koran. Some of the guards started to taunt him.”
The guards chanted the name of the Shi’ite firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. “Who is Moqtada?” — Saddam sneered.
“A cleric who was present asked Saddam to recite some spiritual words,” Haddad said. “Saddam did so, but with sarcasm. These were his last words, and then the cord tightened around his neck and he dropped to his death
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| Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-30-06, 10:00 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-30-06, 10:03 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-30-06, 10:06 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-30-06, 10:11 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-30-06, 11:32 PM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-31-06, 10:56 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-31-06, 10:57 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-30-06, 10:12 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-30-06, 10:14 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-30-06, 10:15 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-31-06, 11:01 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-31-06, 11:04 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-31-06, 11:11 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-31-06, 11:12 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-31-06, 11:16 AM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-31-06, 09:25 PM |
| Re: Saddam Hussein executed | Mustafa Mahmoud | 01-01-07, 10:37 AM |
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