Saddam Hussein’s Final Six Words and the Secret Video That Revealed Taunts During His 2006 Execution

New retrospectives focus on the illicit phone clip that captured sectarian taunts during the full hanging.

Overview

Hussein was convicted for the 1982 Dujail massacre by the Iraqi Special Tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging.
His request for execution by firing squad was rejected by the court.
The execution occurred before dawn on December 30, 2006 at Camp Justice after a final meal, and he entered the chamber holding a Qur'an.
Witness accounts and a covert phone recording described a disorderly scene with taunts and chants invoking Muqtada al-Sadr.
The illicit clip showed the full drop and his final words after the Shahada, while official footage ended earlier; his body was later flown to Al-Awja near Tikrit for burial.