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Bulletin 261 (Dec. 06)
Contents:
• SADDAM HUSSEIN EXECUTED BEFORE BEING TRIED FOR HIS MASS CRIMES IN
KURDISTAN.
• THE BAKER-HAMILTON REPORT ON IRAQ: REJECTED BY BOTH THE KURDS AND THE
SHIITES.
• IRAQI KURDISTAN: A PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT WITH BAGHDAD ALLOWS
NEGOTIATION OF CONTRACTS WITH FOREIGN INVESTORS.
• TURKEY-E.U.: FREEZE OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH ANKARA, WHICH REFUSES TO
NORMALISE ITS RELATIONS WITH NICOSIA.
• TEHERAN: THE FIRST ELECTORAL SETBACK FOR MAHMUD AHMEDINJAD.
• GEORGE BUSH CONSULTS WITH THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT’S COALITION PARTNERS TO
FORM A MODERATE BLOCK WHILE THE PRIME MINISTER LAUNCHES A NATIONAL
RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE IN BAGHDAD.
• TONY BLAIR VISITS ANKARA AND BAGHDAD.
• A DIPLOMATIC BALLET IN THE MIDDLE EAST AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF
POLITICALLY REHABILITATING DAMASCUS AND TEHERAN.
• THE NUMBER OF IRAQI CIVILIAN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE REACHES AN
UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL IN DECEMBER.
• STRASBOURG: THE EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS COURT FINDS ANKARA GUILTY OF THE
MURDER OF THE KURDISH PLAYWRIGHT, MUSA ANTER, AND OF VIOLATIONS OF THE
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION OF KURDISH JOURNALISTS AND BUSINESSMEN.
• READ IN THE TURKISH PRESS: THE REPORT OF THE OF THE TURKISH FOUNDATION FOR
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH (TESEV) REGARDING THE FORCED DISPLACEMENT
OF KURDS.
• AS WELL AS …
SADDAM HUSSEIN EXECUTED BEFORE BEING TRIED
FOR HIS MASS CRIMES IN KURDISTAN
A
t dawn on 30 December,
three years after being
captured in a “rat hole”
in his native region of
Tikrit, Saddam Hussein
was executed by hanging. Iraqi
television broadcast pictures,
showing him () with his hands tied
behind his back, refusing to be
blindfolded, pushed to the gallows
by two masked hangmen who put
the rope round his neck. The
broadcast stopped short of
showing the hanging itself, which
took place just before 6.00 a.m.
(3.00 a.m. GMT). A private
television later broadcast stealthily
take pictures of his body, with a
broken neck, in a bloodied white
shroud. The execution of his two
co-accused, his half-brother,
Barzan al-Tikriti, former head of
the Intelligence Services, and
Awad al-Bandar, former president
of the Revolutionary Court, was
postponed at the last moment.
The timetable and circumstances of
the Iraqi former dictator’s hanging
gave rise to a diversity of reactions
both in Iraq and abroad. It all
happened as if Prime Minister
Maliki wanted to fulfil his promise
to finish with Saddam Hussein
before the end of the year. His
subordinates must have worked
frantically to carry out, in record
time, all the administrative
formalities required and get round
President Jalal Talabani’s
opposition to the death sentence.
The timetable and circumstances of
the Iraqi former dictator’s hanging
gave rise to a diversity of reactions