Iraq government to investigate video of Saddam being taunted

UNEASE at home and abroad about the execution of Saddam Hussein yesterday forced the Iraqi government to order an investigation into unauthorised filming of the former dictator being taunted and abused in the minutes before his hanging.

The inquiry was launched as Saddam's sympathisers staged protests across Iraq at his treatment, and John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, deplored the manner of the former president's death.

Saddam was hanged in the early hours of Saturday morning on the orders of an Iraqi court. The official Iraqi government footage of the execution appeared to show the toppled dictator going to his death with a degree of dignity.

But another film, apparently taken using a mobile phone, quickly surfaced. It appears to show several of the witnesses to the execution mocking Saddam, taunting the Sunni former president by using the name of Moqtada al-Sadr, a militant Shia Iraqi religious leader.
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