The noose was put around his neck by two hooded hangmen but the footage did not show the actual moment of the hanging or pictures of his body.
Updated at 4.45 pm
BAGHDAD: Iraqi state television showed a brief film of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein being placed in a noose by masked hangmen on Saturday, cutting away just before his execution.
The 69-year-old leader appeared calm, chatting to his burly, leather-jacketed executioners as they wrapped his neck first in black cloth then a thick hemp rope and steered him forward on a metal platform.
The gallows was constructed in red-painted metal and was fixed inside a dim room with blue-grey walls. The guards wore black balaclava-style hoods.
Saddam was manoeuvred forward firmly but not aggressively by the guards, the grey-bearded prisoner looking thin inside a smart, dark overcoat over a pressed white shirt but no tie.
The noose was put around his neck by two hooded hangmen but the footage did not show the actual moment of the hanging or pictures of his body
After the first couple of runs through the tape, Iraqiya television began playing a cheerful song celebrating Saddam's demise and intercutting the video with live images of a small crowd of men celebrating in a street.
The foootage was shown on Iraqi state television and Al Arabiya television.
Iraqi private television broadcast a grainy video showing the body of Saddam draped in a white shroud in the hours following his execution.
The body, dressed in a black coat and white shirt, was shown wrapped in a white sheet in footage released by Biladi television.
His bearded head was tilted to the right.
Judge Moneer Haddad, a member of the panel of appeal court judges who attended the Baghdad execution said he expected to be given a copy of a video from the hanging.
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