"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
According to Ridha the accidental decapitation "an act of God." So God decapitated the head of Iraqi KGB head. Interesting Mesopotamian message from God to former KGB dominions, don't you think so gentlemen?
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/15/...ions/index.html
Hussein's half-brother, other co-defendant hanged
POSTED: 8:54 a.m. EST, January 15, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- 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 severed head several yards away, The Associated Press reported.
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.
"It was not like a very pretty scene," said Basam Ridha, who was one of the witnesses.
Ridha said the executions were carried out with dignity and respect, and called the accidental decapitation "an act of God."
The other man hanged was Awad Bandar, the chief judge under Hussein's Baath Party regime.
They went to the gallows for their roles in the killings of 148 men and boys from the mostly Shiite village of Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi government official said.
The two men, dressed in orange prisoner uniforms, "looked very surprised" that they were actually going to be hanged, said Ridha.
They "were very apologetic," asking that they not be put to death, he said. "They asked God for forgiveness," he said.
Orange hoods were placed over their heads, unlike Hussein, who asked not to be given a hood when he was hanged on the same gallows on December 30, Ridha said.
Hussein's half-brother, other co-defendant hanged
POSTED: 8:54 a.m. EST, January 15, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- 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 severed head several yards away, The Associated Press reported.
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.
"It was not like a very pretty scene," said Basam Ridha, who was one of the witnesses.
Ridha said the executions were carried out with dignity and respect, and called the accidental decapitation "an act of God."
The other man hanged was Awad Bandar, the chief judge under Hussein's Baath Party regime.
They went to the gallows for their roles in the killings of 148 men and boys from the mostly Shiite village of Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi government official said.
The two men, dressed in orange prisoner uniforms, "looked very surprised" that they were actually going to be hanged, said Ridha.
They "were very apologetic," asking that they not be put to death, he said. "They asked God for forgiveness," he said.
Orange hoods were placed over their heads, unlike Hussein, who asked not to be given a hood when he was hanged on the same gallows on December 30, Ridha said.