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Efforts to avoid a repeat of uproar over the Government ousted leader's rowdy execution were thwarted when his half-brother's head was severed by the noose.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15195259.htm



Anger at Saddam's half-brother's beheading

Iraqi Shiites, oppressed by Saddam Hussein, welcomed the hanging of two of his aides on Monday though some also joined Sunni Arabs in expressing shock that his half-brother’s head was ripped off by the noose.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16633276/



Saddam's aides were tortured by executioners, defence team claims

The defence team of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Wednesday charged that two former Saddam aides were 'killed and tortured' and not executed as claimed by the Iraqi authorities.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1247785.php/


From Information Clearing House

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Saddam's Half Brother, Top Aide Hanged

Two top aides to Saddam Hussein were hanged before dawn Monday, and the head of one of them - the former Iraqi dictator's half brother, Barzan Ibrahim - was severed from his body during the execution, a government official said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011507D.shtml

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Sunnis blast hangings

York News-Times

01/15/07

The Iraqi government’s attempt Monday to close a chapter on Saddam Hussein’s repressive regime — by hanging two of his henchmen — left many of Saddam’s fellow Sunni Muslims seething after the former leader’s half brother was decapitated on the gallows. A thickset Barzan Ibrahim plunged through the trap door and was beheaded by the jerk of the thick beige rope at the end of his fall, in the same the execution chamber where Saddam was hanged a little over two weeks earlier.

http://tinyurl.com/y97ymc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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SECOND IRAQ HANGING ALSO WENT AWRY
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/world/middleeast/16hang.html


Informant: NHNE



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