January 29th, 2009
Headsman
On this date three years ago — or at least, so says the date in the camera’s viewfinder — a female spy was “tried” and “executed” in Iraq by al Qaeda affiliated terrorists for spying.
Warning: This is (by design) a graphic and chilling video. I have little information beyond the assertion of the video posters as to its veracity. Whether or not it may be relied upon factually or dated reliably, it’s a gut-twisting video of a woman being shot in the head.
[flv:http://www.nothingtoxic.com/mediar.php?552d90ab9f59a971705f6bf3300da297.flv 440 330]
A longer version is on a very not-safe-for-work site here.
On this day..
- 1726: Thomas Craven and William Anderson, reluctant autobiographers - 2019
- 1696: Thomas Randal, obstinate - 2018
- 2015: Robert Ladd, "let's ride" - 2017
- 1802: Joseph Wall - 2016
- 1745: Eve, her smoke visible throughout the country - 2015
- 1879: John Achey and William Merrick, the first hanged in Indianapolis - 2015
- 1253: P. Morret, poor guesser - 2014
- 1913: Edward Hopwood, clumsy suicide - 2013
- Daily Double: Century-Old English Legal Novelties - 2013
- 1912: Albert Wolter, white slaver - 2012
- 1869: Chauncey W. Millard, candy man - 2011
- 1810: Pedro Domingo Murillo, for Bolivian independence - 2010
- 1547: Not Thomas Howard, because Henry VIII died first - 2008
- Themed Set: The English Reformation - 2008
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Borderline "Executions",Espionage,Execution,Iraq,Known But To God,Mature Content,Shot,Spies,Wartime Executions,Women
Tags: 2000s, 2006, al-qaeda, horrible, january 29, occupation of iraq
January 7th, 2008
Headsman
On this date in 2007, during Iraq’s sectarian civil war, Sunni gunmen avenged the execution of Saddam Hussein by hanging 23 Shia hostages in Baghdad’s Haifa Street.
It was but one instance of retaliatory violence ensuing upon the former dictator’s hanging Dec. 30, with scores killed around the country — many in a similar fashion.
London’s Telegraph reports:
The residents of the city’s Haifa Street will long remember the events of Sunday morning. As shop owners raised their shutters and stall holders set out their stock, three minibuses roared to a halt.
Gunmen jumped out and pulled blindfolded prisoners on to the street. Ropes were tied to lampposts and electricity poles. Those hostages who resisted were shot. Others who were still alive had nooses tied around their necks and were then suspended in mid air to choke to death.
All were left hanging, and the victims received little sympathy from those who witnessed the events.
“We watched as all these blindfolded men were hung up and some were shot in the head,” Imad Atwan, a supermarket worker said.
“Altogether there were 23 bodies. We are all Sunni people here so we supported the gunmen. Some of them are the guards of our neighbourhood.”
…
The discoveries were not limited to Haifa Street. People murdered in the same way had been found in Al Doura district and Amriya, in western Baghdad.
The interior ministry estimates that 200 Iraqis were taken hostage after Saddam was sentenced to death.
On this day..
- 1829: William Maxwell, the last hanged for sodomy by the Royal Navy - 2019
- 1528: Augustin and Christoph Perwanger - 2018
- 1755: Henri Mongeot, Lescombat assassin - 2017
- 1859: William Burgess - 2016
- 2015: Ahmed Ali and Ghulam Shabbir, Pakistan terrorists - 2015
- 1355: Ines de Castro, posthumous queen - 2014
- 1889: Alfred Schaeffer, diabolical dynamiter, lynched near Seattle - 2013
- 1612: John Selman, Christmas cutpurse - 2012
- 1611: Three accomplices of Elizabeth Báthory, the Countess of Blood - 2011
- 2009: Haidar Ghanem, human rights activist - 2010
- 1898: Theodore Durrant, the Demon of the Belfry - 2009
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Borderline "Executions",Capital Punishment,Cycle of Violence,Death Penalty,Execution,God,Hanged,Hostages,Innocent Bystanders,Iraq,Known But To God,Mass Executions,No Formal Charge,Occupation and Colonialism,Power,Public Executions,Ripped from the Headlines,Shot
Tags: 2000s, 2007, baghdad, haifa street, islam, january 7, occupation of iraq, saddam hussein, shi'a, sunni
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