The undated footage, believed to be from the
1980s, shows men in the uniforms of Iraqi security
officers strapping what appears to be explosives to
one of the blindfolded men.
Wires were then attached to a large vehicle
battery in the Iraqi desert.
"You're going to kill me, you're going to kill me
even if I confess," wails the man, apparently
accused of being an Iranian agent at the height of
the Iran-Iraq war.
The man waits for death and a few seconds later,
he disappears in a cloud of smoke and dust.
In the next shot, bloodied remains lie in the
sand.
The next man is brought up to the same spot and
made to kneel. He, too, appears to be blown up,
followed by the third.
The executions were captured on film obtained by
the Reuters news agency.
An Iraqi army major reads out a court ruling
which says the three men are Iranian agents.
It says they killed several children and a
university student when they put a hand grenade into
a packet of baby milk in a Baghdad square in
December, 1984.
A military intelligence officer declares that, by
presidential decree, "the Revolutionary Court dated
February 12, 1985, case number 180, has ordered the
death by hanging" of the three.
But they were not hanged. The Iraqi officials
applaud politely when the officer states who signed
the death warrant: "Saddam Hussein, the President."
Saddam's security police were convicted of a 1985
bomb attack that killed children in Baghdad.
Story courtesy of Sky News
