Some reports are suggesting it was National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie, who works for Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq.
Worse than that, the official video shown on TV in Iraq (which doesn't show Saddam's actual hanging), had no audio, but the cell phone version posted all over the net, clearly has Saddam and others exchanging taunts during Saddam's final minutes, in what was supposed to be a solemn event.
Apparently this was part of the exchange:
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After Saddam recited prayers, the guards shouted praise for Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric.
"Is this how you show your bravery as men?" Saddam asked.
"Straight to hell," someone shouted back at him.
"Is this the bravery of Arabs?" Saddam responded.
A sole voice was heard trying to silence the insults.
"Please, I am begging you not to," the unknown man said. "The man is being executed."
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This is certain to enflame Sunni-Shiite anger even more.
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