AP: New Videos Show Graphic Saddam Images

[Eugene]

New Videos Show Graphic Saddam Images

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer

Saturday, December 30, 2006

(12-30) 17:25 PST BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) --

The scene was at once macabre and riveting.

One of the most notorious dictators of the late 20th century, his hands bound
behind him, was led up the stairs of the gallows by masked men in leather coats.
A few seconds later, a trapdoor snapped open and — with a crash — Saddam
was dead.

He may have been the first chief of state executed in the age of the Internet
and the camera phone. Probably because of that, his death was graphically
documented on video, and available worldwide, within hours.

By several accounts, Saddam was calm but scornful of his captors, exchanging
taunts and accusations with the crowd gathered to watch him die — insisting
that he was Iraq's savior, not its tyrant and scourge.

State television did not broadcast footage of the actual hanging. But camera
phone video, posted in full or in part on several Web sites, picked up where
the TV coverage left off.

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Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/12/30/international/i172546S14.DTL

[Crabby Appleton]

1. the video is

here if you want to see it.

[YOY]

2. It's posted all over some of the lurid sites on the WWW

Sick...

[Higans]

3. I don't believe it is really him.