Saddam mobile phone death film man arrested

IT APPEARS that the person who used a mobile phone to film the last minutes of Saddam Hussein wasn't a humble guard but a VIP.

According to an Associated Press report, a man arrested by Iraqi authorities in conjunction with the filming was an official who supervised the execution and he's now under investigation.

One key witness is Munqith al-Faroon, an Iraqi prosecutor who helped convict Saddam for the killings in the town of Dujail.

He claimed that two top officials had their mobile phones on them, even though the official witnesses had been searched before boarding US helicopter that carried them to the execution site.

Those witnesses had their mobile phones placed in a box for safekeeping.

The footage was most likely initially circulated via Bluetooth transfer before somebody had the idea of actually posting it on the Internet. µ