If you watch the video of Saddam's execution, you can hear his executioners chanting "Moqtada, Moqtada!" They were VERY obviously 'Sadrists,' members of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. To give you a short history lesson, the Mahdi Army has killed hundreds of US troops since the war began, many with Iranian-designed IEDs and EFPs.
Why did Bush allow Mahdi Army members to execute Saddam? Why did US military officials hand-pick Mahdi Army members to do this work? Does it just come down to raw incompetence? These are some of the very LAST guys in Iraq you'd want to carry out the execution.
2007-09-27
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