Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was one of Saddam Hussein's top advisors and was executed in January 2007. A video of his hanging, which showed his severed head, was released to reporters and widely criticized around the world.
The stories and anecdotes I have read and heard about Saddam Hussein are varied and often contradictory. The variety of things said and written about the late president of Iraq shows that we outside Iraq and perhaps in the west in general still know few real details about the man. Were a lot of things about him made up? I truly believe so. The fabrications made were not just about the big things like weapons of mass destruction, but even in tiny elements of the man beginning with his name...
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Dawn E. Crawford
Iraq still divided one year after Saddam’s death
31/12/2007 11:20:00 PM GMT
(AFP) Saddam remains an icon capable of dividing the Iraqis
"Saddam may have been a dictator... But in comparison to the current leaders of Iraq he's innocent..."
By Emma Sabry
The first anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s execution may have passed in Iraq with scant mention by the government or the press, but it was marked by his loyalists...
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Linked from breakingnews.iol.ie Reporters were shown a video of the hanging of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti. The video supposedly includes gory shots of his severed head lying away from his body... ---
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...
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Saddam Hussein and his aides should certainly have been held to account for the horrific human rights crimes committed by his government but this should have been through a fair trial process and without recourse to the death penalty. Reports that Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti had his head severed during the hanging only emphasis the brutality of this already cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.
- Malcolm Smart, Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme
Source: electroniciraq.net
