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Should Iraq execute Saddam's half-brother?

Ros Atkins Ros Atkins | 16:15 UK time, Thursday, 4 January 2007

Hasit here (still getting a blog log-in). Saddam's execution, and the manner in which it was carried out, remains a among our listeners.

You have been critical of the Iraqis for the security breach which enabled video footage to be posted on the web, the timing of the hanging to coincide with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, and generally the undignified manner in which the hanging took place. Others say that Saddam got what he deserved.

It was supposed to represent a fresh chapter for Iraqis, but with of two of Saddam's close colleagues attracting protests from the most senior UN officials, should the Iraqi government still carry them out?

We're going to have Dr Zuhair Al-Nahar in our London studio during the programme - he's a UK-based representative of the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki's Dawa Party, and

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