Iraq PM orders probe into Saddam video

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Iraq PM orders probe into Saddam video
By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer
21 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The prime minister on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the conduct of Saddam Hussein's execution in a bid to learn who among the witnesses taunted the former Iraqi leader in the last minutes of his life, then leaked a cell phone video.

The video contained audio of some witnesses taunting Saddam with chants of "Muqtada" and of the former leader responding that his tormentors were being unmanly. It surfaced on Al-Jazeera television and the Internet late Saturday, the day Saddam was hanged.

Sami al-Askar, a close al-Maliki political adviser, told The Associated Press that the Iraqi leader had "ordered the formation of an investigative committee in the Interior Ministry to identify who chanted slogans inside the execution chamber and who filmed the execution and sent it to the media."

The video was particularly inflammatory not only because the disrespectful chanting was clearly audible, but also because it showed Saddam's death...

Continued @ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070102/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070102151436

[xultar]

1. OK...The person had a fuckin cell phone holding it up...they know who took it.

[soothsayer]

2. Like abu ghraib, the a-holes investigate the leak, not the incident!

Talk about missing the effing point. They should condemn the unprofessional hanging, not that someone leaked it, for goodness sake. Same thing that this admin does time after time.