Court shows beheading tape

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq’s Supreme Criminal Court showed on Thursday a videotape of Fedayeen Saddam (Saddam’s Commandos) beheading three Iraqis in a public place in al-Nasseriya city, Thi-Qar province. The executioners were dressed in black, veiled and with swords in hands, which was the regular style of Fedayeen Saddam, an armed group that was headed by Uday Saddam Hussein in pre-2003 Iraq. The court session was attended by a number of defendants accused of this act. The petition was filed by a woman whose son was beheaded in the videotape, which showed the woman forced to attend the execution of her son. Two of the defendants confessed during the session that they attended the slaughtering. MH (P)/AmR 2