since the sole video (so far) shows sadaam only dropping out of camera frame, it isn't going to do much to assuage conspiracy speculation. as the execution video of record it's anything but.
had the iraqis wanted they could have avoided adding to a lot of future speculation by simply recording and releasing the full event. for whatever strange reason known only to them they haven't. perhaps they will and they may have to because as it stands now, no one looking at that video alone can say for certain what really happened.
when even the burial site is suspect (the nyt calls it the "reported" grave of sadaam) the air surrounding this critical moment in middle eastern history is thick with fakery. perhaps that was intentional, to dampen violence from loyalists with hope their ultimate leader still lives. otherwise it's sheer stupidity.
- js.
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