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=== News Update ===
Good Morning, Baghdad! Two Hangings, One Decapitation Before Breakfast
<http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/01/good-morning-baghdad-two-hangings-one.html>Winter
Patriot
January 15, 2007
Public barbarity reached yet another new low this morning -- even for
occupied Iraq -- when two of Saddam Hussein's former aides were hanged
before dawn in Baghdad, one of them losing his head in the process.
Like John Kerry's dumb joke, the American media have already decided for us
-- the hanging was "botched". Reuters are packaging Jonathan Wright's piece
from Cairo under the heading:
<http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2007-01-15T124522Z_01_L15262958_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-ARABS.xml&src=rss>Botched
hanging in Iraq arouses Arab suspicions
and it leads with the "official version":
The botched hanging of Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan on Monday
aroused Arab suspicions of foul play and malice, deepening the divide
between the Iraqi government and Arabs in other countries.
The noose pulled off Barzan al-Tikriti's head as he fell from the gallows,
suggesting that the hangman had misjudged the length of rope needed just to
break his neck.
Government spokesman Ali Dabbagh said there was no "violation of procedure"
in the hanging of Barzan and fellow convict Awad Hamed al-Bander, Saddam's
former chief judge, for crimes against humanity over the killings of 148
Shi'ites.
but if you keep reading you can see that the "Arab street" doesn't buy the
official version at all.
from Morocco to Yemen, ordinary Arabs cast doubt on the official
explanation. Some recalled the chaotic and abusive treatment of Saddam
Hussein when he was hanged on December 30.
Zaid al-Boudani, a shopkeeper in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, said: "I am very
sad today, as many other Muslim Arabs are. This execution is part of the
revenge campaign going on in Iraq. The way his head was ripped off shows
hatred and revenge."
The president of Morocco's Human Rights Center described the hangings as a
barbaric and vengeful act carried out under external pressure, probably
from Iran and the United States.
"We had never heard that the head of a hanged person was ripped from his
body, only in this case, which mirrors the hatred and violence," said the
president, Khaled Charkaoui.
Wright provides more details of Arab reaction later in the article:
Issam Ghazzawi, a Jordanian lawyer who saw Barzan on Friday, said he was
convinced the decapitation was deliberate.
"His head was cut off after he was hanged to mutilate his body in [...] a
barbaric act of revenge that is against any human values and is vigilante
justice by a group of thugs," he said.
Qassim Abdul-Zahra of the Associated Press, reporting from Baghdad via the
Toronto Star, says <http://www.thestar.com/article/171227>reaction inside
the occupied country is equally skeptical:
Khalaf al-Olayan, a leader of the main Sunni bloc in parliament, demanded
to see any video taken during the execution.
"It is impossible for a person to be decapitated during a hanging," he told
Al-Jazeera television. "This shows that they (the government) have
mutilated the body and this is a violation of the law."
"We want to see the video that was taken during the execution of the two
men in order for them (government) to prove what they are saying," he added.
Qassim Abdul-Zahra adds:
The two men were to have been hanged along with Saddam, but Iraqi
authorities decided to execute the former dictator alone on what National
Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie called a "special day."
Oh, yes! Very special, indeed!
And now we have two special days to recall with extreme fondness, as one
wave of barbaric carnage follows another. The daily death toll barely
warrants a mention:
At least 78 people were reported killed or found dead on Sunday, including
41 bullet-riddled bodies discovered in Baghdad. The U.S. military also said
two American soldiers died Sunday from roadside bombs in Baghdad.
source:
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/01/good-morning-baghdad-two-hangings-one.html
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