Malaysia's Mahathir slams Saddam's execution as barbaric, sadistic

Malaysia: Malaysia's former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, on Monday slammed the execution of Saddam Hussein as barbaric, sadistic and a public murder. "If we support human rights and justice, we must condemn this barbaric lynching of Saddam Hussein," Mahathir, a vocal critic of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, said in a statement issued through national news agency Bernama.