# Saddam's Execution Video Online **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-execution-video-online/386207 "2006-12-31T14:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-execution-video-online/386207/1 "2006-12-31T14:24:22Z")
While this is a low quality version, the video is online. It’s low quality as if filmed with a cell phone or something but it’s complete. As per the admin’s post that links would be okay only with clear warning, let me be clear: **THIS INCLUDES THE DROP. VERY GRAPHIC.** [http://videos.netscape.com/story/2006/12/30/saddam-execution-video-full-including-the-drop](http://videos.netscape.com/story/2006/12/30/saddam-execution-video-full-including-the-drop) I did not watch it in whole, I have no wish to see it, but I am sharing it as I know many do want to see it. – IG ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-execution-video-online/386207/2 "2006-12-31T14:42:58Z")
Not the highest quality and the person filming it missed the actual drop part. The whole thing seemed very amateurish to me and i’m not sure but I thought I heared people laughing at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-execution-video-online/386207/3 "2006-12-31T14:46:53Z")
I wonder how long it will be before the conspiracy theorists start claiming that he’s still alive and it was one of his body doubles that was executed. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-execution-video-online/386207/4 "2006-12-31T14:51:23Z")
This is the same cellphone video that’s all over the place; it shows him drop out of frame, but does not show the end of the drop and the presumed neck-snap. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-execution-video-online/386207/5 "2006-12-31T15:02:57Z")
The first video released was better quality and was shot from the platform. I assume that’s the _official_ video, and that the ‘cell phone’ video was shot by some guy in the crowd. We (or at least I) have not seen the ‘official’ video yet. As I watched the video we do see, I thought it would make a good sequence in a horror film. The rapid movement from the witness’s POV, the sudden darkness, and the flashes of the still cameras would work very well, I think. ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-execution-video-online/386207/6 "2006-12-31T15:18:40Z")
The official filming I have seen so far shows the scarf and noose being placed around his neck but it ends there. I guess it won’t be long before the rest of that video is released. ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-execution-video-online/386207/7 "2006-12-31T15:21:26Z")
This is in poor taste but raised a smile given the subject 🙂 It is a looped anim gif showing the drop part of the execution. As usual don’t click on the link if you object to such things. [Link](http://www.nosoup.net/nosoup4u/b3ta/saddamsbouncingrecord.html) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddams-execution-video-online/386207/8 "2006-12-31T15:22:49Z")
Okay, that’s funny.