This is raw footage that appears to have been recorded on a cell phone, but it is the closest I’ve come so far to finding actual footage of Saddam’s full execution. Watch the whole thing if you can take it… it does show his corpse. I doubt this will stay up on youtube.com for much longer.
The following footage contains images that might be disturbing to some people. Watch at your own risk.
[Update] This is what I found on cnn.com pertaining to the video I have posted above:
Cell-phone video
The official government video of the execution was released without sound and ends when the noose is put around Hussein’s neck.
But a crude cell-phone video leaked less than 24 hours later goes much further — showing bitter exchanges between Hussein and his Shiite guards.
After Hussein offers prayers, the guards shout praise for Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric whose father is believed to have been murdered by Hussein’s regime.
They chant, “Muqtada! Muqtada! Muqtada!”
Hussein smiles.
“Is this how you show your bravery as men?” he asks.
“Straight to hell,” someone shouts back at him.
“Is this the bravery of Arabs?” Hussein asks.
A sole voice is heard trying to silence the taunts.
“Please, I am begging you not to,” the unknown man says. “The man is being executed.”
Another shout, “Long live Mohammed Baqir Sadr” — referring to Muqtada al-Sadr’s father-in-law and a founder of the Shiite Dawa movement who was executed by the Hussein regime. Dawa is al-Maliki’s party.
The taunts continued, and the trapdoor dropped shortly after 6 a.m. Saturday. Hussein was hanged.
These are frightening times we live in… I fear they will only get worse…
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962 Comment from CheekyMouse January 5, 2007, 3:54 pm
Wow! The part where they drop him comes out of nowhere! He’s just standing there all talking and then BYE BYE!
Does this mean that the war is over now?
967 Comment from Earl Yorke January 5, 2007, 4:09 pm
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Wow!
The part where they drop him comes out of nowhere! He’s just standing there all talking and then BYE BYE! 
Does this mean that the war is over now?
