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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
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Aide Says U.S. Won't Yield 2 to Iraq to Hang without a Plan
—The New York Times, January 15, 2024

Apparently the plan was to decapitate Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti.

Which begs the morbid question: What would we ever send 20,000 more troops and hundreds of millions of additional dollars to prop up a government so incompetent, it can't even manage an execution—twice?
  8:02 AM  
Comments:
Well at least Saddam's half-brother isn't the "head" of the secret police anymore!
# posted by Anonymous : 10:25 AM
 
It seems that a "successful" hanging is not quite as easy as one might think. The aim is to avoid a long drawn out stranglation (especially with the victim still conscious), yet not have the victim drop so far that the noose might cause decapitation. For an account of how hangings work and the imprecise calculations that are needed to avoid decapitation in each instance, see article in Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2153186/
# posted by Anonymous : 5:15 PM
 
For an interesting digression on other aspects of hanging, featuring an Asian man who found a very creative use for a John Deere tractor and a new take on the death of INXS front man Larry Hutchence, go to http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/autoerotic-asphyxiation/.
# posted by Anonymous : 12:57 AM
 
For an interesting digression on other aspects of hanging, featuring an Asian man who found a very creative use for a John Deere tractor and a new take on the death of INXS front man Larry Hutchence, go to http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/autoerotic-asphyxiation/.
# posted by Anonymous : 12:57 AM
 
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