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World News
Hooded Saddam will be hanged in green overalls
London, Dec 29: Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is likely to be hanged in the next 36 hours, according to informed sources in Baghdad, and they say that he will be taken upto the gallows in green overalls and with a hood over his head.
According to The Mirror, Saddam will be hanged by the neck according to laws that he passed himself 37 years ago.
Manacled hand and foot, he will climb the 15 foot high steel gallows hooded and dressed in green overalls.
Before he takes those final steps, a Sunni Muslim cleric will offer Saddam the opportunity to make his peace with Allah.
The process of hanging is as per the Iraqi Penal Code that Saddam enforced as vice-president in 1969.
The execution will be carried out by an Iraqi volunteer. Saddam's body will then be buried in an unmarked grave kept top secret by the Iraqi Government.
He will not be given a funeral, but his family will be allowed to see him 24 hours before his execution. His wife and daughter are unlikely to reach Baghdad in time to even claim his body. They now live in Jordan.
On the morning of his execution, Saddam will be handed over by American troops at Baghdad's Camp Cropper, where he is being held, to Iraqi guards.
They will then frogmarch him to the nearby Abu Ghraib, a jail at which thousands died under Saddam.
Saddam's penal code was abolished by the Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003, but capital punishment was reinstated as part of Iraqi law the following year.
A judge, a prosecutor, a Ministry of Interior official, the jail director and its doctor will see him die.
A court ruled on Tuesday that Saddam must die within 30 days, but he will not be hanged on a public holiday or religious festival.
The Mirror yesterday revealed he is eating takeaway burgers and fries - and an ex-aide said his last meal might be the western snack.
--- ANI