FILE Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, executed in Iraq

(15 Jan 2007)
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FILE: Baghdad - 5 November 2006
1. Chief Judge Raouf Abdul-Rahman sitting in court
2. Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam Hussein's half brother and former intelligence chief, shouting as he walks into the dock UPSOUND: "Long live the Arabs, long live the (Arab) nation, long live the unity of the Iraqi people, long live the Ba'ath party, the party of the high level principles"
3. Barzan standing in dock, UPSOUND (Arabic), Chief Judge: "The court sentenced Barzan Ibrahim to death."
4. Defence team
5. Barzan listening
6. Chief Judge
7. Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, standing before the judge UPSOUND (Arabic) Chief Judge : "The court sentences Awad Hamad Al-Bandar to death."
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Defendant, head of the former Revolutionary Court: "God is greater than the traitors."
9. Chief Judge reading out sentence while Awad shouts "God is Great", "God is Great", "God is Great"
10. Awad shouting and a guard's hand enters shot
11. Chief Judge pointing towards next defendant
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FILE: Baghdad, Iraq - 2006
12. Wide of defendants in court, including Barzan (top right) and Awad (bottom left)
13. Various of Barzan rising to his feet
14. Various of Awad
15. Wide of defendants in court
STORYLINE:
Saddam Hussein's half brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court were hanged before dawn in Baghdad on Monday, Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism.
Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, had been found guilty along with Saddam of the killing of 148 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader in the town of Dujail north of Baghdad.
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh confirmed the executions, saying those attending
the hangings included a prosecutor, a judge and a physician.
"In a rare incident the head of the accused Barzan Ibrahim al-Hassan was separated from his body during the execution," al-Dabbagh told reporters.
The two men were to have been hanged along with Saddam on December 30, but Iraqi authorities decided to execute Saddam alone on what National Security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie called a "special day."
The executions reportedly occurred in the same Saddam-era military intelligence headquarters building in north Baghdad where the former leader was hanged two days before the end of 2006, according to an Iraqi general, who would not allow use of his name because he was not authorised to release the information.
The building is located in the Shiite neighbourhood of Kazimiyah.
Saddam's execution became an unruly scene that brought worldwide criticism of the Iraqi government.
Video of the execution, recorded on a cell phone camera, showed the former dictator being taunted on the gallows by Shiites.

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