Saddam Execution Guard Infiltrated By Outsiders...Supervisors Arrested...

Associated Press Steven R. Hurst January 3, 2007 07:44 PM

Iraqi authorities reported the arrests Wednesday of two guards and an official who supervisedSaddam Hussein's hanging and said the guard force was infiltrated by outsiders who taunted the former leader and shot the video showing his body dangling at the end of a rope.

The unauthorized video, which ignited protests by Saddam's fellow Sunni Arabs in various Iraqi cities, threatens to turn the ousted dictator into a martyr. Saddam was shown never bowing his head as he faced death, and asking the hecklers if they were acting in a manly way.

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