Saddam Hussein's body reburied in secret location

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Saddam Hussein's body reburied in secret location

Reuters
The Guardian , Wednesday 6 August 2014 15.58 BST

Saddam Hussein's Sunni tribal allies moved his body from a family plot eight months ago, fearful that Shia Muslims would harm it, according to a Sunni leader.

The caution paid off for the executed former Iraqi president's former allies. A leader from Saddam's Albu Nasir tribe and a police official said that Shia militiamen later broke into the grave site, tore down photographs of the former Iraqi leader and then set the area on fire.

"We had moved the body eight months ago to a safer place. We were afraid something would happen to him. Our fears proved true," said the tribal leader who asked not to be named. "There were four of us that took up this mission. We could not move the bodies of Saddam's sons. We are afraid someone will desecrate those graves."

The tribal chief would not say where the body was taken. "We moved him to a place far from the hands of his enemies," he said. "Isn't it enough for them that they killed him once. Now they are afraid of his body."

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[Turbineguy]

1. They have

a Tea Party in Iraq? Who knew?

[MADem]

2. At the risk of sounding like Bill Maher shortly before he was fired from his ABC television show,

Saddam died very bravely. He may have been many things--in fact, he most certainly was many things, to include a brutal leader--but a coward in the face of a very violent death wasn't one of 'em.