Video Shows Saddam Arguing With Executioners

"The tyrant has fallen," a witness shouted after Saddam Hussein
dropped through the trap door of the gallows, his neck broken in an
instant by the rope moments after exchanging sectarian taunts with
onlookers.

Grainy footage of the execution, apparently shot on a
mobile phone by a witness who was standing below looking up at the
gallows, was circulating widely on the Internet on Sunday, a day after
Saddam was hanged for crimes against humanity.

As the hangmen
prepare him for his final moment, some of those invited to attend
standing below the platform taunted the former president, who was
executed on Saturday before dawn.

One man shouts "Moqtada,
Moqtada, Moqtada," a reference to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who heads a
powerful Shi'ite political movement and a militia blamed by Washington
and Sunni Arabs for running death squads targeting Saddam's Sunni Arab
minority.

Saddam, the noose around his neck, appears to smile and shoot back: "Is this what you call manhood?"

Another
onlooker, despite pleas from another for witnesses to observe the
proprieties, yells: "Go to hell!" and Saddam, seemingly accusing his
enemies of destroying the nation he once led, replies: "The hell that
is Iraq?"

The sound was muffled and at times indistinct..........