Thursday Video: The Sudden Hanging of Saddam Hussein

Posted By Blake Hounshell Thursday, January 4, 2007 - 11:25 AM Share

The viral video rage du jour is, of course, the grainy mobile video of Saddam Hussein's hanging that has sparked an international debate over the conduct of the execution. I wouldn't call it shocking, but it's not for the squeamish. The most controversial part of the video is the shouting and taunting that took place, which had a distinctly Shiite cast.

Accompanying this video today, FP has an exclusive interview with Nibras Kazimi, a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute and an Iraqi of mixed Shiite-Kurdish heritage who worked for Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress in Iraq. Kazimi told FP he was "happy" about the execution, and expects Saddam's death to draw out the "poison" of sectarian violence. Check it out in this week's Seven Questions.

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