Two Iraqi army generals, including an officer involved in the July 1968 coup that brought Saddam Hussein's Baath party to power, have been executed, a London-based Arabic newspaper reported on Thursday.
Al-Zaman, a paper close to the Iraqi opposition, named the two officers as Ossama Hassan al-Yawer, brother of a former finance minister, and Taleb al-Saadun, a senior military official of the party.
Saadun was executed allegedly for angering President Saddam Hussein by expressing regret that he had ever participated in the 1968 revolution.
"If I had known that the revolution would lead us to this situation, I would not have taken part," Saadun, a relative of Interior Minister Mohammad Zamam, is reported to have said.
The paper gave no reason for Yawer's reported execution -- DUBAI (AFP)
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