Hanging: Headless body shown
By volschenkh
@volschenkh (1043)
South Africa
January 15, 2007 1:32pm CST
Why would anyone want to see this on video? Its revolting! Yes the man was quilty of horrible cromes, but why show the video?
15/01/2007 16:11 - News24.com
Baghdad - The official video of the hanging of Saddam's co-defendants shows his half-brother lying headless below the gallows, his severed head several meters away.
The video shows Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, being hanged side by side.
They wore red prison jumpsuits. As they reached the gallows black hoods were put on their heads.
Five masked men surrounded them.
After the trap doors opened, al-Bandar could be seen dangling from the rope.
Ibrahim's body was lying on the floor, chest down, his severed head meters away.
The execution was conducted on the same gallows where Saddam was hanged December 30.
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@lauriefnp (5109)
• United States
18 Jan 07
I can't imagine why anyone would want to watch this, and how they could stomach it. I think that this is as sick and barbaric as some of the things that Saddam was convicted of. I think that life in solitary confinement would have been a much more appropriate punishment. All this does is encourage the sick mentality that killing is OK. These people are treating murder as if it were a spectator sport. It's sick.
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@medooley (1873)
• United States
16 Jan 07
I saw an article about this on yahoo and they said that it was not being shown the public... did the article you read say something else?
Also in the article that I read they said that the people that they did show it to, they showed it to them to prove that they did not intend to behead him. To show them proof they hadn't mutilated his body on purpose. I believe that they figured with the outcry they got from Saddam being heckled before he was hung that they would recieve even more for having the head ripped off a body.
But, even if they show that it wasn't done on purpose, there is going to be an outcry anyway.
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@sunshinecup (7871)
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15 Jan 07
I can't stomach things like that. But I reckon it's the same mentality that went behind public executions. A warning and a lesson to those that think they may wish to take their place someday. That and there is an angry amount of people, hurt very viciously by these people, that most likely will want to see it for themselves. If it was my family affected by these people, as others were, I would want a video tape of it.
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@AvarianParakeet (55)
• United States
15 Jan 07
I guess that this is the same basic idea behind showing the bodies of Uday and Qusai(sp?) to the Afghanis. It would bring some victims great comfort to see that their persecutor was brought to justice in a fitting manner. As far as wanting to see it, some people just aren't that grossed out or disturbed by violence. It's our generation.
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