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Broadcast omits moment of Saddam's death
Agencies
Saturday December 30, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
An Iraqi family watches television in their home in Basra, as Iraqi state TV transmits a video of the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Photograph: Nabil al-Jurani/AP
Iraqi television today broadcast footage of Saddam Hussein's last minutes alive but stopped short of showing his actual hanging.
The images - intended to prove to the Iraqi people that their former dictator was executed - were aired on the state-funded Iraqiya television channel less than six hours after the death sentence was carried out.
Television pictures to the accompaniment of upbeat music were cut following the placing of the noose around Saddam's neck.
Later pictures on the Massar and Biladi stations, which are affiliated with the Shia Muslim Dawa party of the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, showed what the stations said was Saddam's corpse.
The grainy, low-quality footage had a corpse in a shroud lying with his neck twisted to one side at an awkward angle, and what appeared to be blood or a bruise on his left cheek.
The footage of the moments before the execution had shown a group of guards dressed in civilian clothes and wearing ski masks helping Saddam up a small metal staircase where a cloth was put around his neck before stepping onto the trap door.
The hangman, wearing a beige leather jacket, then places the thick rope over Saddam's head and tightened the noose on the left side of his neck. The hangman exchanged a few words with Saddam, who nodded in return.
One of those who witnessed the hanging, Sami al-Askari, an adviser to Mr Maliki, said Saddam's death was quick.
"One of the guards pulled a lever and he dropped half a meter into a trap door. We heard his neck snap instantly and we even saw a small amount of blood around the rope," he told Reuters.
Saddam was sentenced to death on November 5 for crimes against humanity. The conviction followed a trial over the deaths of 148 men and boys in the Shia Muslim town of Dujail.
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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 |
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