Saddam, Tikriti, Bandar hung - Amazing pictures - video

You have been misled by Google - this posting relates to the execution of Sadam and included the (we subsequetly discovered) erroneous information that he was lynched with Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar .

However if you want to see the gory removal of Tikriti's head and have a purely prurient interest in his beheading go here. If you want to see Saddam when he is dead revealing his injuries etc., go here

This is the original post :-

Curtis Doebbler, An American attorney (one of two on Saddam Hussein's Dujail trial team), has condemned Saddam Hussein's execution minutes after his client was hanged in Baghdad at dawn....Saddam's half-brother and former Iraqi intelligence chief Barzan al-Tikriti and former head of the Iraqi revolutionary court Awad Hamed al-Bandar - were also executed, Saddam first, then Tikriti and finally Bandar. Video here Warning tough stuff!!


"The execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is an unfortunate display of arrogant aggressor's injustice by the United States of America under the leadership of American President George W. Bush. It sets back achievements in international criminal law many decades and sends a clear message to people all over the world that the United States' aggression cannot be stopped by the law. It is truly a sad day for international justice and sad beginning to a new year.

One cannot imagine a greater inspiration to violence against America and her allies than the action taken this morning. The way that the former Iraqi President, and now brave martyr, stood up to the most powerful, deadly and lawless army in the world almost single-handedly for more than a decade will undoubtedly contirbute, as an inspiration, to violence against American interests all over the world.

One can only hope that a new year will bring the prosecution of those who have perpetrated this violation of international law starting with the American President and his governmental allies to the American jurists and their colleagues who willingly worked to ensure an unfair trial and an extrajudicial and summary execution. One can also not but hope that those who pursue these individuals will not use the same illegal means to bring them to justice that they have encouraged by their example, but rather that the law will be used to bring them to justice and restore the integrity of the law that has been lost by this illegal action.

My heart felt sympathies go out to the family of the President and all the Iraqi people who suffer yet another injustice at the hands of American aggressors."

During the Trial 3 lawyers were killed ;

Lawyer, Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi was abducted 20th October 2005, the day after the trial commenced by 10 masked gunmen wearing Iraqi Police and his dead body was found in the street near Baghdad's Fardous Mosque Diaa al-Saadi.

Lawyer Adel al-Zubeidi, was shot dead Nov 8th 2005 a colleague Thamer Hamoud al-Khuzaie, also in the car was injured. It was claimed the killers arrived at the scene in a Government car.(Pic of accident scene)

On 20th June this year lawyer Khamis al-Obeidi's (married with 6 children) body (see pic) was found dumped in Baghdad, hours after he was abducted from his home. This precipitated a hunger strike by Saddam Hussein and a call to the UN by the defence for the trial to be moved.

You can read what President Bush said today here..."Today, Saddam Hussein was executed after receiving a fair trial ...." blah blah blah