Breaking via AP: Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and the former head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court have been hanged.

Saddam Hussein’s half brother and the former head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism.
Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam’s half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court, had been found guilty along with Saddam in the killing of 148 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader in the town of Dujail north of Baghdad.

CNN is already running the post mortum and wailing and knashing teeth over why they should have waited.

Pathetic.

UPDATE: Looks like Saddam’s half brother was indeed a pencil-neck, as during his hanging it, er snapped and his head came off.

Oh well, however you get there, you get there. Task done, moving on.