Suddam Hanging - posted on liveleak from a cellphone

[Rhiandra Rangnar]

Warning: Could Offend Some Viewers.



This was posted on liveleak.com, it is a cellphone recording of the hanging of Suddam.


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=863ce7d4a3

[Bulor]

yea i don't reall think saddam is dead.

1. US gives him back to his country and lets them hang him.

2.CNN's footage shows everything up until the "floor drops"

3.Cellphone footage shows everything until the "floor drops" and once the floor does drop, the cellphone doens't catch the right point of view, until it shows a close up of saddams face.

4.some iraq offical which is present at this hanging, takes out his cell phone and uploads it to youtube?

5. it's such a scam. saddam is chilling with tupac and biggie.

[Keabit Guinness]

And Elvis!

[Nilbert500]

interesting

[Twystyd]

He's dead, Bulor is in the denial stage. Conspiracists rejoice at the new material to keep them busy. Not sense the lunar landing has there been a greater time to escape reality. They gave his body to his people in Tikrit. I doubt they would be interested in cooperating w/ the lunatic fringe cover up.

[Zoidmeister]

I believe he is dead as well but...

The only curious thing about the video was the fact that it almost appeared to be more like a "posse" hanging rather than an official government decreed hanging. I suppose there were American witnesses to the hanging but none are mentioned in the press release.

I would have expected more of an official setting with more government observers etc etc. Prisoners in the U.S. are executed with more officials present than it appears Saddam was.

Ahh well.

[Winke]

He is dead

Winke

[Augomatic]

I believe he is dead as well but...

The only curious thing about the video was the fact that it almost appeared to be more like a "posse" hanging rather than an official government decreed hanging. I suppose there were American witnesses to the hanging but none are mentioned in the press release.

I would have expected more of an official setting with more government observers etc etc. Prisoners in the U.S. are executed with more officials present than it appears Saddam was.

Ahh well.

The whole thing was somewhat unofficial. At one point, there was some worry, because the president of Iraq is against capitol punishment, and some people thought it would be overridden by him.

He didn't, but chances are, people steered clear of involving any agency he is responsible for.

On top of that, the reason no Americans were there is simple, even if it was just one American standing in the corner, if that got leaked, it would be spun into the Americans forcing the execution, or influencing it.

Add to that the general newness of the Iraq police force, they really don't have procedures for anything like this. My guess is what happened is that the Americans turned Saddam over to the Iraqis, and some mid-level bureaucrat or official took it upon himself to carry this thing out.

To me, it's just another sign of the level of organization the Iraqis are currently at, and the fact that it doesn't look like America can pull out of there anytime soon without the whole thing spiralling into a mess.