{"id":74673,"date":"2020-09-04T21:55:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=74673"},"modified":"2020-09-04T21:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:25:23","slug":"saddam-husseins-body-did-not-decay-after-12-years-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/saddam-husseins-body-did-not-decay-after-12-years-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-check: Saddam Hussein’s dead body did not decompose after 12 years of burial?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 2:20-minute-long video reportedly showing former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has recently gone viral on social media. Users are claiming that his body was exhumed “12 years” after his burial and it had not decayed. Saddam Hussein’s government was toppled by a US-led invasion in 2003 and he was hanged on December 30, 2006, for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

On August 30, 2020, a Facebook page posted the video, writing, “An Iraqi leader dug up Saddam Hussein’s tomb after 12 years to move the corpse only to find that his face looked completely fresh”. This video had garnered 1,800 views at the time of writing. (archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Posted by Mullaji mobile center Kairana – SAMLI u.p<\/a> on Sunday, 30 August 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Another Facebook user posted the same video with this claim. (archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Posted by Hafiz.Iftkhar.Alam<\/a> on Saturday, 29 August 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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We also received a few requests to verify this clip on the Alt News official mobile application.<\/p>\n

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The first thing that brings into question the authenticity of this video and users’ claims is the fact that they suggest the body was exhumed after 12 years. In reality, 14 years have passed since Saddam Hussein was buried. Therefore, this claim does not make sense mathematically.<\/p>\n

After doing a keyword search, we found a longer version of the video in question. The video had been posted on YouTube on January 6, 2007, seven days after Saddam Hussein’s execution. This clip shows Hussein’s last journey in which his body can be seen as it is being buried. In this 9-minute long video, scenes from the viral video appear at the 6:27 mark.<\/p>\n