It was only a matter of time. There is now video on YouTube, Revver and other sites, purportedly of Saddam’s execution in full. It is believable. The person who shot it on a cellphone is standing below the gallows, so you clearly see Saddam dropping and then hanging. Arab television stations are showing this in full. The American stations I have seen (as well as the BBC) showing it stop it just before the hanging. I am linking to it, because I believe it is important people have the choice of deciding for themselves. I’m not embedding it here. You may disagree with this choice, and I respect that. But the truth is that, once the video is out there, everyone will find it. And that’s the point of the internet in 2007: people shoot the news with their own tools, find their own information, and our jobs are changed now to facilitate the conversation of news.
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