December 31, 2006
Cameraphone footage of Saddam’s Execution made its way to video sharing sites
Saddam’s Execution Video Makes it to Google Video, YouTube and Revver.
"This video video shows Saddam Hussein being hanged from the vantage of a witness using his or her cellphone.
This shows almost everything -- except for the snap of the neck, viewer discretion advised".
More from the BBC:
"New footage of Saddam Hussein's final moments reveals the former Iraqi president exchanged taunts and insults with witnesses at his execution.
The grainy images are believed to have been filmed on a mobile phone.
Unlike on the silent, official film showing a subdued Saddam Hussein, the execution is a charged, angry scene.
In it people chant the name of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and tell Saddam Hussein to "go to hell", while the former leader mocks their bravery."
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