Lawfuel.com’s Hot Files – Saddam Hangings – Iraq Executions – Video – Reports that Iraq film of the executions of two Saddam aides could have been directed by Mel Gibson, given their gore. But perhaps we’re just looking at this sort of thing in a post-modern sort of way. After all, the bastards are dead and Al-Tikriti was hardly a stranger to death and the violence with which it could be visited upon his scores of hapless victims.
Maybe there’s meaning in “handing him his head”, because that’s what Al got, with his severed head placed beside his body after the decapitation.
