{"id":9621,"date":"2007-01-15T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9621.html"},"modified":"2007-01-15T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T16:30:54","slug":"another-controversial-hanging-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/another-controversial-hanging-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Another controversial hanging in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Saddam Hussein’s execution went so well, it was time for a return trip to the gallows today. How’d it go? Don’t ask<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Iraq hanged two of Saddam Hussein’s aides early Monday, and one of the condemned was accidentally decapitated.<\/p>\n

The official video of the hangings shows Hussein’s half-brother lying headless below the gallows, his severed head several yards away, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n

The executioner’s noose severed the head of Barzan Hassan, the former chief of Hussein’s secret police, according to a spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s office.<\/p>\n

“It was not like a very pretty scene,” said Basam Ridha, who was one of the witnesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can we not get through a simple hanging anymore with controversy? It seems as if they can’t even perform executions properly anymore.<\/p>\n

Of course, in case the sectarian conflict couldn’t get worse, today didn’t help. In Tikrit, a black banner was raised on the main mosque, named after Hussein, saying, “The people of Tikrit mourn the two martyrs … killed by sectarian hands<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“There is no way a head would be ripped off the body during a hanging. I’m sure they mutilated the bodies after they hanged them,” said Ahmed Mustafa, a 30-year-old student in the northern city of Mosul, accusing Iraq’s Shiite-led government of “sucking the blood of the people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The AP noted reference works on judicial killings explaining that decapitation is a possibility during hangings, but it appears that Sunnis on the streets on Tikrit are convinced this is the latest move to stoke the fires of the conflict.<\/p>\n

Great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Saddam Hussein’s execution went so well, it was time for a return trip to the gallows today. How’d it go? Don’t ask. Iraq hanged two of Saddam Hussein’s aides early Monday, and one of the condemned was accidentally decapitated. The official video of the hangings shows Hussein’s half-brother lying headless below the gallows, his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}