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| Gerry Lincoln |
Official Held in Saddam Hanging Video
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The person believed to have recorded Saddam Hussein's raucous execution on a cell phone camera was arrested Wednesday, an adviser to Iraq's prime minister said.
A U.S. military spokesman, meanwhile, said the United States would have handled the execution differently had it been in charge.
The adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, did not identify the person. But he said it was "an official who supervised the execution" and who is "now under investigation."
"In the past few hours, the government has arrested the person who made the video of Saddam's execution," the adviser said.
Iraqi state television broadcast an official video of Saturday's hanging, which had no audio and never showed Saddam's actual death. But the leaked cell phone video showed the deposed leader being taunted in his final moments, with witnesses shouting "Go to hell!" before he dropped through the gallows floor and died.
The unruly scene was broadcast on Al-Jazeera television and was posted on the Internet, prompting a worldwide outcry and big protests among Iraq's minority Sunnis, who lost their preferential status when Saddam was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
"If you are asking me: 'Would we have done things differently?' Yes, we would have. But that's not our decision. That's the government of Iraq's decision," said Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman.
He said that Saddam was "dignified" and "courteous" as he was transferred from US military control to Iraqi custody before he was executed.
"He spoke very well to our military police, as he always had, and when getting off at the prison site he said farewell to his interpreter; he thanked the military police squad," Caldwell said.
Some Sunni Muslims have taken to the streets in mostly peaceful protests in the days since Saddam's execution, mourning their former leader and protesting the manner in which he was executed.
Al-Maliki on Tuesday ordered his Interior Ministry to investigate the video - who made it and how it reached television and Web sites for public viewing.
On Wednesday, an Iraqi prosecutor who was also present at the execution denied a report that he had accused National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie of possible responsibility for the leaked video.
"I am not accusing Mowaffak al-Rubaie, and I did not see him taking pictures," Munqith al-Faroon, a prosecutor in the case that sent Saddam to the gallows, told The Associated Press.
"But I saw two of the government officials who were ... present during the execution taking all the video of the execution, using the lights that were there for the official taping of the execution. They used mobile phone cameras. I do not know their names, but I would remember their faces," al-Faroon said in a telephone interview.
The prosecutor said the two officials were openly taking video pictures, which are believed to be those which appeared on Al-Jazeera satellite and a Web site within hours of Saddam's execution.
The New York Times on Wednesday reported that al-Faroon told the newspaper "one of two men he had seen holding a cell phone camera aloft to make a video of Mr. Hussein's last moments up to and past the point where he fell through the trapdoor was Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Mr. Maliki's national security adviser."
The Times said it had been unable to reach al-Rubaie for comment. AP also could not reach him Wednesday. His secretary said the security adviser, a close aide to al-Maliki, was in Najaf and would not return until later.
Al-Faroon said there were 14 Iraqi officials, including himself and another prosecutor, as well as three hangmen present for the execution. All the officials, he said, were flown by U.S. helicopter to the former military intelligence facility where Saddam was put to death in an execution chamber used by his own security men for years.
The prosecutor said he believed all mobile phones had been confiscated before the flight and that some of the officials' bodyguards, who arrived by car, had smuggled the camera phones to the two officials he had seen taking the video pictures.
Some of the last words Saddam heard, according to the leaked cell phone video, were a chant of "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada," a reference to Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American Shiite cleric, whose Mahdi Army militia is believed responsible for many killings that have targeted Sunnis and driven many from their homes.
Al-Sadr's father was killed by Saddam. The militant cleric is a key al-Maliki backer.
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| Gerry Lincoln |
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| DUDE-HERE |
| THIS WILL MAKE LIBBYS VERY HAPPY. HOW DARE THEY INSULT SADDAM AND THE MUSLIM WORLD AFTER ALLITS NOT BUSH RIGHT LIBBYS |
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| Gerry Lincoln |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
THIS WILL MAKE LIBBYS VERY HAPPY. HOW DARE THEY INSULT SADDAM AND THE MUSLIM WORLD AFTER ALLITS NOT BUSH RIGHT LIBBYS |
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| acefree |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
THIS WILL MAKE LIBBYS VERY HAPPY. HOW DARE THEY INSULT SADDAM AND THE MUSLIM WORLD AFTER ALLITS NOT BUSH RIGHT LIBBYS |
most everything u type is hate and labelling. be happy :) im a liberal, dont tell me what will make me happy. its not true. one time type an intellgent post i challenge u :) |
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| acefree |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
THIS WILL MAKE LIBBYS VERY HAPPY. HOW DARE THEY INSULT SADDAM AND THE MUSLIM WORLD AFTER ALLITS NOT BUSH RIGHT LIBBYS |
and what is a libby? (ive asked this question 42 times) |
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| DUDE-HERE |
Quote: Originally posted by acefree
and what is a libby? (ive asked this question 42 times) |
damb are you dumb
a libby is a liberal ...not that hard |
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| DUDE-HERE |
Quote: Originally posted by Slippy
Liberals. |
remember allin teh family when cleavon little and Demond Wilson broke into the bunkers house and cleavon says to make
" look what we have here , a genuine liber-ral "
that was funny |
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| Halcyon |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
remember allin teh family when cleavon little and Demond Wilson broke into the bunkers house and cleavon says to make
" look what we have here , a genuine liber-ral "
that was funny |
I am curious DUDE-HERE... Are you a born and bred native of Venice California? Did you really grow up in Southern Cali? Because I never thought of Venice CA to be so like Arkansas or Nebraska... You're about the biggest redneck hillbilly I've ever seen in California.... |
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| angrychink |
Quote: Originally posted by Halcyon
I am curious DUDE-HERE... Are you a born and bred native of Venice California? Did you really grow up in Southern Cali? Because I never thought of Venice CA to be so like Arkansas or Nebraska... You're about the biggest redneck hillbilly I've ever seen in California.... |
ignorant stupidity has no boundaries
look at dude |
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| Gerry Lincoln |
Quote: Originally posted by Halcyon
I am curious DUDE-HERE... Are you a born and bred native of Venice California? Did you really grow up in Southern Cali? Because I never thought of Venice CA to be so like Arkansas or Nebraska... You're about the biggest redneck hillbilly I've ever seen in California.... |
He seems functionally illiterate.
I have a hard time trying to figure out what he's trying to express — hence the "what-are-you-saying" graphic. |
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| DUDE-HERE |
Quote: Originally posted by Halcyon
I am curious DUDE-HERE... Are you a born and bred native of Venice California? Did you really grow up in Southern Cali? Because I never thought of Venice CA to be so like Arkansas or Nebraska... You're about the biggest redneck hillbilly I've ever seen in California.... |
phila orig..venice since 1995
clinton was from arkansas, whats wrong with arkansas
pig fucker
arkansas tooth pic
and when have you ever seen me and you have never been to lancaster or victorville..thats where the rednecks are that and lake tahoe |
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| BarkonCue |
| This sounds like bull-shit to me because if officials seen the Phone Cams being used, why weren't they confiscated at that time ? What a mess ! |
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| Gerry Lincoln |
Quote: Originally posted by BarkonCue
This sounds like bull-shit to me because if officials seen the Phone Cams being used, why weren't they confiscated at that time ? What a mess ! |
Judging by the way the thing was filmed, it seems as though the videographer occasionally lowered his camera phone — most likely so that some official who might have gazed in his direction wouldn't spot it. Otherwise he could have held the thing as steady as the guy that filmed Michael Richards' meltdown.
With the size of these things, how hard would it really be to smuggle a cell phone into a room? The guy could have stashed it down his pants. I'm sure those macho Arabs didn't check everyones' balls. |
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| BarkonCue |
| Quote: On Wednesday, an Iraqi prosecutor who was also present at the execution denied a report that he had accused National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie of possible responsibility for the leaked video. |
"I am not accusing Mowaffak al-Rubaie, and I did not see him taking pictures," Munqith al-Faroon, a prosecutor in the case that sent Saddam to the gallows, told The Associated Press.
"But I saw two of the government officials who were ... present during the execution taking all the video of the execution, using the lights that were there for the official taping of the execution. They used mobile phone cameras. I do not know their names, but I would remember their faces," al-Faroon said in a telephone interview.
Yea ok, but here the prosecutor says i seen the phone cams but said nothing ......
Why would he have done that ? |
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| Gerry Lincoln |
Quote: Originally posted by BarkonCue
Yea ok, but here the prosecutor says i seen the phone cams but said nothing ......
Why would he have done that ? |
I missed seeing that. One article said that all the witnesses had to turn in their cell phones before entering the execution room.
There are a lot of unanswered questions and the way they dole out information, I guess all we can expect is . . . speculation and rumors.
The truth would be a refreshing change but we're so used to lies, i doubt if we'd even recognize veracity if it smacked us on the head at this point. |
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| kevin49er |
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
damb are you dumb
a libby is a liberal ...not that hard |
So by rule that makes you a "Con" or a "Connie"?
Or shall we just call you KHHHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!! |
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