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Dopo giorni di polemiche sulle circostanze che hanno portato l'ex dittatore iracheno Saddam Hussein sul patibolo per mano degli iracheni (l'esecuzione è avvenuta il 30 dicembre scorso con il placet degli americani), un nuovo video che ritrae il corpo dell'ex Raìs avvolto in un lenzuolo e con una profonda ferita sul collo circola su Internet, aggiungendo nuove ombre su una vicenda già intrisa di lati oscuri. Le immagini del nuovo video sono state fatte con una telecamera rudimentale di quelle montate sui telefonini che, tra le polemiche, avevano già fatto la loro comparsa nella camera del patibolo.


Questo "inedito" si presume possa essere stato girato subito dopo la morte del Raìs: il corpo è infatti avvolto da capo a piedi in un lenzuolo bianco che lascia scoperta solo la testa e il collo da cui, come detto, si intravede una ferita circolare. Le circostanze e il perché di questa lacerazione non sono noti, ma sollevano una serie di interrogativi: che compatibilità hanno con l'impiccagione? E ancora, Saddam è veramente morto sul patibolo o la fine è stata causata da altro, magari proprio da un'arma? Oppure si tratta del risultato di un ulteriore accanirsi contro il cadavere dell'ex dittatore iracheno da parte degli esecutori della sentenza (che nelle immagini diffuse dai media esultavano e inveivano contro Saddam già prima della sua morte)?

Un nuovo scioccante video dunque che si aggiunge a quello diffuso nelle prime ore e che ha suscitato polemiche e indignazione sia perché riprendeva gli esecutori dell'impiccagione mentre esultavano davanti al Raìs prossimo alla morte e perché l'obiettivo non rispettò nemmeno il cadavere penzolante dalla corda del patibolo. L'immagine del volto di Saddam riverso all'indietro con gli occhi aperti ha fatto il giro del mondo. L'orrore ha accompagnato quel video portandosi dietro un bagaglio di ulteriore orrore. Come gli atti di emulazione di inconsapevoli ragazzini che, giocando all'impiccagione di Saddam vista in tv, hanno perso la vita. E' accaduto negli Stati Uniti, in Algeria e ancora in Arabia e nello Yemen: 5 piccole vittime.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/world/16412380.htm

QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Janaury 8, 2006 - A new video of Saddam Hussein's corpse, with a gaping neck wound, was posted on the Internet early Tuesday, the second leaked release of clandestine pictures from the former leader's hanging.

The video appeared to have been taken with a camera phone, like the graphic video of the hanging which showed guards taunting Saddam in the final moments of his life.

The footage pans up the shrouded body of the former leader from the feet. It apparently was taken shortly after Saddam was executed and placed on a gurney. He was hanged shortly before dawn on Dec. 30.

As the panning shot reaches the head region, the white shroud is pulled back and reveals Saddam's head and neck.

His head is unnaturally twisted at a 90 degree angle to his right. It shows a gaping bloody wound, circular in shape, about an inch below his jaw line on the left side of his neck. His left cheek is marked with red blotches, and there is blood on the shroud where it covered his head.

The newest video leak was likely to increase the angry reaction over the way the execution was carried out. There already has been a global outcry about the undignified manner in which the Shiite-dominated government hanged Saddam, a Sunni.

The 27-second video was posted on an Iraqi news Web site that is known to support Saddam's outlawed Baath Party.

"A new film of the late immortal martyr, President Saddam Hussein," the web site said in a headline over a link to the video.

Voices could be heard on the video. As the shroud is pulled back, one voice says, "Hurry up, hurry up. I'm going to count from one to four. One, two ... . Hurry up you're going to get us into a catastrophe."

Then another voice, apparently the man taking the pictures, says, "Just one second, just one second, Abu Ali. I'm about finished."

Then a third voice says, "Abu Ali, you take care of this."

It was the second clandestine video to have leaked, the first showing Saddam being taunted in his final moments. That clandestine video showed the former leader dropping through the gallows floor as he offered chanted prayers. It ends with his dead body swinging at the end of a rope.

The hanging video was in sharp contrast with an official video that was broadcast not long after Saddam's execution which showed him standing silently on the gallows as the noose was put around his neck. The official video was muted.

The leaked hanging video, however, was shot from the floor of the gallows chamber, looking up at Saddam. Voices could be heard taunting him with cries of "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada," referring to radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia and a key support of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The prime minister pushed for Saddam to be executed before the end of 2006 and just four days after the death sentence was upheld by the appeals court. U.S. official sought to delay the execution.