Saddam Stabbed After Death: Guard

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 1, 2008 11:08 AM CDT

(Newser) – Saddam Hussein’s body was mutilated after his execution, says a guard present at his internment. “There were six stab wounds on his body,” two of them to his back, the Iraqi told the London Times. The guard said 300 people witnessed the desecrated body, but Iraqi officials and the leader of Saddam’s tribe deny that he was mutilated after death. A video shows him being taunted by enemies just before his hanging.

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Saddam Hussein reacts in court. (AP Photo)

Captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein undergoes medical examinations in Baghdad. (AP Photo)

Protesters hold a poster of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 2007. (AP Photo)

Saddam Hussein in 2001. (Getty Images)

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I oversaw the whole process from A-Z and Saddam Hussein’s body was not, not stabbed or mutilated and he was not humiliated before execution. - Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq’s security advisor

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