Iraqi PM Orders Probe Into Saddam's Execution After “Inflammatory” Cell-Phone Video Surfaces...

Associated Press CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA January 2, 2007 06:03 PM

Iraq's prime minister ordered an investigation Tuesday intoSaddam Hussein's execution to try to uncover who taunted the former dictator in the last minutes of his life, and who leaked inflammatory footage taken by camera phone of the hanging.

The unofficial video, on which at least one person is heard shouting "To hell!" at the deposed president and Saddam is heard exchanging insults with his executioners, dealt a blow to Iraq's efforts to prove it was a neutral enforcer of the law. Instead, the emotional, politicized spectacle raised tensions between the Shiite majority and Sunni Arabs who ran the country until their benefactor, Saddam, was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

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