According to MSNBC News Services, 2:46 p.m. MT Jan 15, 2007, BAGHDAD, Iraq:


"Hangmen gauge the length of rope needed to snap the neck of the condemned but not to create enough force to sever the head.

Saleem al-Jibouri, a senior Sunni Arab lawmaker, said Ibrahim's body might have been weakened by the cancer he was suffering."