(al-Rubaie)Iraq Official Slams Execution Chaos

[maddezmom]

An Iraqi official has said that Saddam Hussein should not have been taunted when he was executed. National Security Adviser Mowaffak al Rubaie told Sky News: "It was very unprofessional, it was disgusting, it shouldn't have happened."

Unofficial video footage showed the execution to be less dignified than it had seemed in the official video.

Mr al Rubaie conducted interviews at the weekend to say that the procedure had been calm and professional.

But pressed on the chaotic scenes which the mobile footage revealed, he said: "It was meant to be peaceful.

"These are guards, low-level, not educated people, they respond in a natural way, they couldn't control their feelings.

more:http://uk.news.yahoo.com/03012007/140/iraq-official-slams-execution-chaos.html

and in his own words after the execution:

~snip~

Al-Rubaie said that while the execution was carried out with due respect to Hussein -- and following "all international and Islamic standards" -- some witnesses and the executioner could not resist celebrating by dancing around the body after the hanging.

"It's a very ordinary action of a number of people -- some of them officials, some of them ordinary people, even the executioner as well because they have lost their loved ones -- their fathers, brothers, sisters -- this is a natural reaction," he said.

"I would like to make this day a day of unity of Iraqis," al-Rubaie said. "We need to forgive, forget the past now and look forward and progress toward stability, security and prosperity of Iraq."

The execution took place outside the heavily fortified U.S. Green Zone, al-Rubaie said, and no Americans were present.

"It was an Iraqi operation from A to Z," he said. "The Americans were not present during the hour of the execution. They weren't even in the building."

more:http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/30/hussein/

[tanyev]

1. Yup. Just a few bad apples.

Where have we heard that before?

[malaise]

2. He's a proven liar

He's the one who came out saying Saddam looked beaten but that was before the video showed otherwise.

[sabra]

5. Indeed. He truly is the new Baghdad Bob. I remember when

Zarqawi was killed he claimed that they found many top secret documents in his clothing. Later on reports indicated that to be not true...

[n2doc]

3. The new Baghdad Bob? Not even close!

Gotta try harder, al Rubaie- no one is gonna believe that one.

[sabra]

4. NYT interviewed the prosecuter present at the execution who says

al-Rubaie was one of the officials with a cellphone:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3028641

[malaise]

6. No surprise

Who but a bunch of criminals will associate with Bush, Rummy & Cheney

[maddezmom]

7. Does anyone know if al-Rubaie was the execution supervisor or just a gov't witness?

Saddam execution supervisor arrested
03/01/2007 - 12:47:53

An adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki today said the person who made the leaked video of Saddam Hussein’s hanging had been detained.

The adviser, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, did not identify the person.

“In the past few hours, the government has arrested the person who made the video of Saddam’s execution,” the adviser said.

“He was an official who supervised the execution and now he is under investigation.”

An Iraqi prosecutor who was present for Saddam Hussein’s execution denied on Wednesday a report that he had accused the country’s national security adviser of possible responsibility for the leaked video of the former dictator being hanged.

“I am not accusing Mowaffak al-Rubaie (the national security adviser), and I did not see him taking pictures,” Munqith al-Faroon, an Iraqi prosecutor in the case that sent Saddam to the gallows, told The Associated Press.


more:http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=205976912&p=zx59776y8

[sabra]

8. al-Rubaie is Maliki's right hand man. I read that he was the one

that brought the six masked executioners. It seems like someone has also gotten to Munqith al-Faroon as he is now changing his story... :crazy:

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Hoisted by his own Verizon?

Can you hear me now, motherfucker?

[leftchick]

10. It happened at an American Base for god's sakes

:puke:

[LynnTheDem]

11. Flip... Flop... Flip Flip...Flop Flip Flop...

Just another liar of the bushCabal.