Iraq's Sunnis angry over hanging and decapitation
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) -- Iraqi Shiites, oppressed by Saddam Hussein, welcomed the hanging of two of his aides on Monday, though some joined Sunni Arabs in expressing shock that his half-brother's head was ripped off by the noose.
Hussein's two co-defendants were hanged before dawn on Monday, the Iraqi government said.
They admitted that the head of his half-brother Barzan Hassan was torn from his body by the force of the rope during the execution. (Full story)
In Hussein and Hassan's home town of Tikrit, a Sunni Arab stronghold north of Baghdad, a black banner was raised on the main mosque, named after Hussein, saying: "The people of Tikrit mourn the two martyrs ... killed by sectarian hands."
"There is no way a head would be ripped off the body during a hanging. I'm sure they mutilated the bodies after they hanged them," said Ahmed Mustafa, a 30-year-old student in the northern city of Mosul, accusing Iraq's Shiite-led government of "sucking the blood of the people."
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Hussein's two co-defendants were hanged before dawn on Monday, the Iraqi government said.
They admitted that the head of his half-brother Barzan Hassan was torn from his body by the force of the rope during the execution. (Full story)
In Hussein and Hassan's home town of Tikrit, a Sunni Arab stronghold north of Baghdad, a black banner was raised on the main mosque, named after Hussein, saying: "The people of Tikrit mourn the two martyrs ... killed by sectarian hands."
"There is no way a head would be ripped off the body during a hanging. I'm sure they mutilated the bodies after they hanged them," said Ahmed Mustafa, a 30-year-old student in the northern city of Mosul, accusing Iraq's Shiite-led government of "sucking the blood of the people."
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