Saddam Half Brother, Ex-Official Hanged

Posted on January 14, 2007

It shouldn’t be long now before we start hearing the ‘human rights’ crowd start crying about how inhumane this was.

Saddam Hussein’s half brother and the former head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism.

Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam’s half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court, had been found guilty along with Saddam in the killing of 148 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader in the town of Dujail north of Baghdad.

“They (the government) called us before dawn and told us to send someone. I sent a judge to witness the execution and it happened,” al- Faroon said.

The two men were to have been hanged along with Saddam on Dec. 30, but Iraqi authorities decided to execute Saddam alone on what National Security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie called a “special day.”

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One Response to “Saddam Half Brother, Ex-Official Hanged”

kerwin_brown on January 16th, 2007 12:58 am

Someone is complaining because the head of one of the hanged individuals came off. Big deal! Dead is dead. I am more concerned about going into the hospital and the medical staff making an error that ends up killing me. I do not hear human rights advancing their political agenda by screaming that the victims of that hospital misconduct have had their rights violated.