Two former aides of Saddam Hussein will be executed tomorrow, five days after the former dictator was himself hanged in Baghdad, an official at the Iraqi prime minister's office said today.Saddam's half-brother and former head of intelligence, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, and Awad Ahmed al-Bandar, the former chief judge of revolutionary court, will be put to death at dawn tomorrow, the official said."Their documents have been signed and they will be executed on Thursday," he told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that they remain for the time being in the custody of "US authorities."The two were found guilty along with Saddam by an Iraqi court for the massacre of 148 Shiites from Dujail village in the 1980s in revenge for an failed attempt on the then-president's life.Saddam was hanged on December 30 at a former torture centre in Baghdad's Shiite district of Kadhmiyah and buried a day later at his home village of Awja in northern Iraq.Barzan and Bandar were to have been hanged along with Saddam, but their execution was later postponed as "we did not have time on that day," the official in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office said.The Iraqi government wanted to complete Saddam's execution on that day before sunrise, which was the moment that Eid al-Adha began.
