BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The execution of Saddam Hussein and footage showing Shi'ite officials taunting him on the gallows is a blow to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's calls for national reconciliation, a top Sunni lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Saleem al-Jibouri, from the Iraqi Accordance Front, the largest Sunni Arab parliamentary bloc, said the government's decision to rush through the execution and the degrading hanging video have hardened perceptions among Sunni Arabs that the Shi'ite majority is running the state under a sectarian banner.
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