Former Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi said that the body of the late President Saddam Hussein was thrown between his home and the home of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the Green Zone, after his execution in 2006.
In a press interview, Al-Kazemi explained that he saw Saddam twice: the first in his first trial session, describing it as "a very difficult and defining historical moment in the history of Iraq."
As for the second time, Al-Kazemi says that it was "when they threw his body (Saddam) between my house and the house of Mr. Nuri al-Maliki in the Green Zone (in the center of the capital, Baghdad) after his execution."
He added, "I refused this work, but I saw a group of guards gathered, and I asked them to move away from the body out of respect for the sanctity of the dead."
In 2003, an international coalition forces led by the United States overthrew Saddam's rule, claiming that he had weapons of mass destruction and links between Iraq and al-Qaeda, which Washington could not prove.
On charges of committing crimes against humanity, Saddam was executed at dawn on the day of Eid al-Adha, December 30, 2006, and his execution on that day sparked outrage among many sectors of Sunni Muslims.
And about whether they had brought the body near Al-Maliki's house, he replied, "Yes, they brought it, and Al-Maliki ordered at night to hand it over to one of the sheikhs of the Al-Nada clan, which is Saddam Hussein's clan, so they received it from the Green Zone."
He added, "He was buried in Tikrit, and after 2012, when ISIS (the Islamic State) took control (of the region), the grave was exhumed, and the body was moved to a secret place that no one knows until now, and the graves of his children were tampered with."
Al-Maliki was prime minister between May 2006 and September 2014, and it was he who signed the death sentence for Saddam Hassan, because the then President of the Republic, Jalal Talabani, was committed to an international agreement opposing the death penalty.