Senior Iraqi official: "the Americans took all our phones, even mine which has no camera."

[sabra]

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/3/worldupdates/2007-01-02T220220Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-282057-1&sec=Worldupdates

Saddam hanging nearly halted over jeers - prosecutor

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior Iraqi court official nearly halted Saddam Hussein's execution when supporters of a radical Shi'ite cleric and militia leader taunted the former president as he stood on the gallows.

Prosecutor Munkith al-Faroon, who is heard appealing for order on explicit Internet video of Saturday's hanging that has inflamed sectarian passions, said on Tuesday he threatened to leave if the jeering did not stop -- and that would have halted the execution as a prosecution observer must be present by law.

"I threatened to leave," Faroon told Reuters. "They knew that if I left, the execution could not go ahead."

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"Two officials were holding mobile phone cameras," said Faroon, who was a deputy prosecutor in the case for which Saddam was hanged and is the chief prosecutor in a second trial that will continue against his aides for genocide against the Kurds.

"One of them I know. He's a high-ranking government official," Faroon said, declining to name the man. "The other I also know by sight, though not his name. He is also senior.

"I don't know how they got their mobiles in because the Americans took all our phones, even mine which has no camera."

[Missy M]

1. Very interesting article....

the Americans took all the phones yet the US claims they had no hand in the execution.

[sabra]

2. interesting indeed.

seems like there's lots of finger pointing going on...

[jwirr]

3. Afraid of what the Last Witness would say before he died. *ss

thought of everything.