Sounds like they're squad is still learning "the ropes". The drop or length of rope determines whether the neck fractures properly to cause immediate paralysis perhaps immediate unconsciousness. To short, they dangle there kicking.......to long, off with the head. Since beheading is the ultimate disgrace.......this time it wasn't such a bad thing.

Here's a hangmans chart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Table_of_Drops

Have a good one!:jointsmile:
Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on . Saddam's Half Brother, Top Aide Hanged By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD, Iraq Jan 15, 2007 (AP)â?? Two top aides to Saddam Hussein were hanged before dawn Monday, and the head of one of them the former Iraqi dictator's half brother Barzan Ibrahim was severed from his body during the execution, a government official said. Two weeks and two days after Saddam was executed in an unruly scene that has drawn worldwide criticism, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh stressed that all laws and rules were respected during Monday's Rating: 5