Saddam’s half brother, top aide executed

Two top aides to Saddam Hussein were hanged before dawn today, and the head of one of them — the former Iraqi dictator’s half brother Barzan Ibrahim — was severed from his body during the execution, a government official said.

Ooops! That works too, and it couldn’t have made any difference to Barzan under the circumstances.

Two weeks and two days after Saddam was executed in an unruly scene that has drawn worldwide criticism, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh stressed that all laws and rules were respected during today’s hanging of Ibrahim, the former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court.

What’s the environmental impact? More oxygen available for those who deserve it.