BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has not set a date for executing Saddam Hussein's two co-defendants, an official said on Thursday, as the government tried to dampen disgust over a video of Saddam's hanging that has angered Sunni Arabs.
There had been reports that the two would hang on Thursday. But a day after the United Nations appealed to Iraq not to execute Barzan al-Tikriti, Saddam's half-brother and former intelligence boss, and former judge Awad al-Bander, an aide to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said no date had been set.