Saddam to Be Hanged in 48hrs

[01Snake]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16384738/

NBC: Saddam to be hanged by Sunday
Ex-dictator’s execution expected to be carried out by start of Eid holiday

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reported Thursday. According to a U.S. military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, Saddam will be hanged before the start of the Eid religious holiday, which begins that Sunday.

Earlier Thursday, Saddam’s chief lawyer implored world leaders to prevent the United States from handing over the ousted leader to Iraqi authorities for execution, saying the former dictator should enjoy protection from his enemies as a "prisoner of war."

This breaking news story will be updated.
NBC News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[boutons_]

They should waterboard him a few days so he tells us where he hid all those WMD.

[MannyIsGod]

Good riddance.

[midgetonadonkey]

Saddam needs to be put back in power. He is the only one that can handle those fucking savages.

[IceColdBrewski]

Good riddance.

My thoughts exactly.

[Guru of Nothing]

If only this could be a pay-per-view event.

It might help to offset expenses.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

I'm going to write a country song about the hangin' of sadam

[Guru of Nothing]

I'm going to write a country song about the hangin' of sadam

Give it a little Johnny Horton touch, perhaps.

[turambar85]

This is a damned, bloody mistake.

More death will spring from his...is it worth it to make a point? To get revenge?

[Guru of Nothing]

This is a damned, bloody mistake.

More death will spring from his...is it worth it to make a point? To get revenge?

Nah, Saddam is the Dick Cheney of the Middle East.

Ignore the indignant idiots.

[turambar85]

Nah, Saddam is the Dick Cheney of the Middle East.

Ignore the indignant idiots.

Ignore their bombs and killings too, I guess...

[midgetonadonkey]

Ignore their bombs and killings too, I guess...

That's what a real patriotic American would do.

[Guru of Nothing]

Ignore their bombs and killings too, I guess...

"Their" = ??????

[Guru of Nothing]

Are you implying that "insurgents" support Saddam's cause?

[PixelPusher]

This is sure to be the most watched YouTube vid starting next week.

[Pistons < Spurs]

I'd like to see him lit on fire rather than hang.

[MannyIsGod]

You have to be a complete fuck to think that the hanging of Sadaam is a bad thing.

[ChumpDumper]

I'm a little surprised. I thought there would be a couple more trials, but seeing what a fiasco the actual trial was, it makes sense.

[Marklar MM]

Psychobilly Freakout

[Nbadan]

Saddam was a brutal dictator, but not anymore so than our 'allies' in the war on terra presently calling the shots in places like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. How many people did the Saudi royalty kill in their rise to power? Fact is, the Iraqi courts set up exclusively to try and convict Saddam had a difficult time proving that he had committed any mass atrocities. He ordered 129 Shiia killed after a failed coup attempt, including some young boys, but that's almost par for course in terms of M.E, justice.

Yes, Saddam deserves to face justice for using mustard gas and other nerve agents against the Kurds and the Iranians, wiping out whole villages, casualties of war if you will, but not unlike those casualties of war killed by phospurous bombs dropped by American planes that melted the skin of any Iraqi man, woman or child unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place at the right time.

There are many type of evil, and Saddam was truely evil, but he didn't develop the mustard gas spores he sprayed on Kurd villages, he didn't provide the logistics to field commanders that fired WMDs on Iranian military positions, and he wasn't alone in thumbing his nose at the international community during the Iran-Iraq conflict over the use of weapons that have been banned since WW1.

Saddam should live for now, and be tried in the Hague for crimes against humanity.

[MannyIsGod]

Give me a break. I'm not going to sit here and try to quantify Sadaam's evil. Any other evil done by anyone else in the world is irrelevent to determining whether I give a flying fuck if this dude lives one more day. He's done, and good riddance.

[Nbadan]

I'm quantifying the fact that Saddam was essentially rail-roaded in his trial, not that he committed any less evil than any other brutal dictator. If he ls guilty, then the Iraqi people should have no qualm letting Saddam stand trial in International Court for crimes against humanity. Besides, you kill Saddam now and you enrage the Sunni, who are just getting rearmed by the Saudis.

[Nbadan]

Devika Bhat and agencies


Saddam Hussein has vowed to go the gallows as a "martyr" ready and willing to sacrifice himself, after Iraq's highest court rejected an appeal against his death sentence.

In a defiant letter released today but said to be written from his prison cell in November when he was first sentenced to death, the ex-dictator addresses Iraq’s citizens directly, urging them to unite against "the enemies".

"I sacrifice myself. If God wills it, he will place me among the true men and martyrs," he wrote. "O faithful people, I bid you farewell as my soul goes to God the compassionate…Long live Iraq. Long Live Iraq. Long live Palestine. Long live jihad and the Mujahidin. God is great."

The message came as Saddam’s Baath Party - disbanded after his ousting in 2003 - threatened retaliation if the execution went ahead, warning in an internet posting that it would target US interests anywhere...

Great, just what we need.

[Nbadan]

I see UTube in Saddam's future....


CBS/AP) Saddam Hussein's final moments will be videotaped by the Iraqi government, reports CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston. National Security adviser Mouffak al Rubaie says the date of the deposed dictator's execution will not be made public, to avoid possible unrest from Saddam's supporters, but everything from the signing of the final orders by the judge, to the hanging itself will be recorded.

Iraqis, members of the coalition, and international representatives will witness the execution. It's not clear whether the videotape will be broadcast on Iraqi television.

An Iraqi government official says efforts are under way to carry out the death sentence by the end of this month, indicating that they want to do the execution before the Muslim celebration of Eid, which coincides with the New Year.

CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/28/iraq/main2304318.shtml)

No word yet on who gets to stroke Saddam's hand gun at the magic moment.

[Nbadan]

Hang Saddam (http://www.gsn.com/minigames/minigame.php?id=12)

[DarkReign]

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/Z/T/saddam_timetofly.jpg

And just searching thru the site, I found even more comedy gold...

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/B/H/turbanator.jpg

[clambake]

They should kill him or hire him.

[01Snake]

Brainroom: Saddam Hussein's Atrocities

Friday, December 29, 2006

Chronicle of the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein:

Hussein's regime killed, tortured, raped and terrorized the Iraqi people and its neighbors for over two decades.

Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of Hussein's actions.

Hussein has had approximately 40 of his own relatives murdered.

1980-88: Iran-Iraq war left 150,000 to 340,000 Iraqis and 450,000 to 730,000 Iranians dead.

1983-1988: Documented chemical attacks by Iraqi regime caused some 30,000 Iraqi and Iranian deaths.

1988: Chemical attack on Kurdish village of Halabja killed approximately 5,000 people.

1987-1988: Iraqi regime used chemical agents in attacks against at least 40 Kurdish villages.

1990-91: 1,000 Kuwaitis were killed in Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

1991: bloody suppression of Kurdish and Shi'a uprisings in northern and southern Iraq killed at least 30,000 to 60,000.

2,000 Kurdish villages were destroyed during the campaign of terror

2001 Amnesty International report: "Victims of torture in Iraq are subjected to a wide range of forms of torture, including the gouging out of eyes, severe beatings and electric shocks... some victims have died as a result and many have been left with permanent physical and psychological damage."

Human Rights Watch: Hussein's 1987-1988 campaign of terror against the Kurds killed at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 Kurds.

Refugees International: "Oppressive government policies have led to the internal displacement of 900,000 Iraqis"

Iraq's 13 million Shi'a Muslims, the majority of Iraq's population of approximately 22 million, faced severe restrictions on their religious practice

FBI: Iraqi government was involved in a plot to assassinate former President George Bush during his April 14-16, 1993 visit to Kuwait.

The Iraqi regime has repeatedly refused visits by human rights monitors.

From 1992 until 2002, Saddam prevented the UN Special Rapporteur from visiting Iraq.

(Sources: Office of the White House Press Secretary: Life Under Saddam Hussein: Past Repression and Atrocities by Saddam Hussein's Regime; April 4, 2003, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/iraq/20030404-1.html; "Iraq: Crimes Against Humanity," State Department, May 7, 2002, http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/crimes; "Iraq: U.S. Alleges Role in Bush Death Plot," Facts on File May 20, 1993; http: www.2facts.com; http://www.2facts.com/stories/temp/10882temp1993053677.asp)

[ChumpDumper]

I don't think it can be good news that the execution is going to take place either on a Sunni or a Shiite holy day.

[PixelPusher]

Arab TV stations are reporting that Hussein has been executed. Hasn't been confirmed by our media yet.

[IceColdBrewski]

Is the rope on ebay yet?

[spurschick]

Hang Saddam (http://www.gsn.com/minigames/minigame.php?id=12)

Damn you, I just wasted 5 minutes playing that game.

[Saddam's Ghost]

Thanks for keeping me in mind, guys. Too bad you couldn't turn out for the ceremony, but you can probably check it out later on YouTube or that Max-X show.

[tsb2000]

That was quick- Saddam's ghost already has 12 posts? :wtf

[Saddam's Ghost]

We have really good broadband down here.

[spurschick]

http://www.driko.org/blogicons/southpark_410_saddam_satan.gif

[tsb2000]

We have really good broadband down here.

So...uh....see anyone you know? :devil

[Saddam's Ghost]

Marcus Bryant is already down here...Dante was right.

[boutons_]

3000+ US dead to kill one motherfuckng Saddam

you're doing a heckuva job, dubya

[tsb2000]

:lol

[Saddam's Ghost]

Boutons we should really get together for lunch again sometime!

[tsb2000]

Now that it's all said and done, what would you like the world to know?

Any advice from the "other side"?

Is it hot there- like on tv? :)

[Clandestino]

nbadan and boutons defending sadamm! priceless...

[Clandestino]

not sure if this has been posted or not... uncensored video of his hanging.

http://www.sicksitenetwork.com/radio/saddamisdeadcell.wmv

[TheAdmiral#50]

Rest In Pain

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/payton34smith22/Gifavs/FAMILY%20GUY/MS/saddamnooseyt0.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/payton34smith22/Gifavs/FAMILY%20GUY/MS/forcesaddam1ih5.gif

[Bob Lanier]

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[ManuLoco]

3000+ US dead to kill one motherfuckng Saddam

What about the thousands of inoccent iraqis dead (including kids and women)? Not to mention those who lost their arms, legs, relatives, posessions. They don't count, right?

Bush should also get hanged for killing those people.

[ChumpDumper]

No doubt Saddam deserved to die, but there are some things about the execution that are cause for concern. The whole thing ended up coming off like a pep rally for Moqtada al-Sadr and not the birth of a new multicultural democracy.

[Spurminator]

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2586/baghdadbobph6cm0.gif

:lol

[PixelPusher]

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2586/baghdadbobph6cm0.gif

:lol
Whatever happened to that guy anyway? I remember U.S. forces did capture him, but I don't know what happened to him after that.

[ChumpDumper]

Gotta love the Iraqi government, they're taking a page out of our book and trying to shoot the messenger of bad news. They don't give a shit that they are owned by the Shiite militias, they're just upset that everyone else now knows just how much they are owned.

Iraq PM orders probe of Saddam execution

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer 34 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister ordered an investigation Tuesday into
Saddam Hussein's execution to try to uncover who taunted the former dictator in the last minutes of his life, and who leaked inflammatory footage taken by camera phone of the hanging.

The unofficial video, on which at least one person is heard shouting "To hell!" at the deposed president and Saddam is heard exchanging insults with his executioners, dealt a blow to Iraq's efforts to prove it was a neutral enforcer of the law. Instead, the emotional, politicized spectacle raised tensions between the Shiite majority and Sunni Arabs who ran the country until their benefactor, Saddam, was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

A prosecutor who saw the hanging said some of the taunting came from guards outside the execution chamber, not the masked ones who put the noose around Saddam's neck.

The Iraqi government did not say what, if any, punishment would await anyone uncovered in its probe of guards and 14 selected witnesses who attended the execution at a Baghdad prison before dawn Saturday. Some were high-ranking officials or people affiliated with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a political ally of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who had wanted to speed up the timing of the execution after an appeals court upheld the death sentence.

The grainy video appeared on the Internet late Saturday. Al-Jazeera television also showed the footage at that time, saying it was exclusive.

The footage contained audio of people taunting Saddam with chants of "Muqtada," a reference to al-Sadr. Also on the video, Saddam accuses his tormentors of being unmanly in scenes that stop just short of pandemonium.

The video was inflammatory not only because the chanting was clearly audible, but also for showing the ghastly spectacle of Saddam plummeting through the gallows trapdoor and dangling in death, his vacant eyes open and his snapped neck almost at a right angle to the line of his shoulders.

In contrast, the official video showed masked executioners placing a heavy noose around Saddam's neck, without a soundtrack. Another official video shows Saddam wrapped in a burial shroud after his death, though his head and neck are exposed as proof of his identity.

Munqith al-Faroon, an Iraqi prosecutor who helped convict and sentence Saddam to death for the killings of 148 people in the town of Dujail in 1982, said he was a witness to the hanging. He said two top officials had their mobile phones with them — even though the government-approved witnesses had been searched before boarding U.S. helicopter that carried them from the Green Zone to the site of the execution, their cell phones placed in a box for safekeeping.

Al-Faroon did not name the officials who had their phones and said he did not know whether the Iraqi government had approved the mobile phone video.

"It might be for money. Maybe he decided from the start to film it and to sell it to the satellite TV channels," al-Faroon said in an interview with TV2, a Danish television network. "I do not think that an investigation is necessary if they only filmed it for money. The execution was not a secret. The filming was not against the law."

Still, the prime minister "ordered the formation of an investigative committee in the Interior Ministry to identify who chanted slogans inside the execution chamber and who filmed the execution and sent it to the media," said Sami al-Askari, a political adviser to the Iraqi leader.

Al-Faroon said he vigorously protested when people began to shout just before Saddam was executed, and that shouts of "Muqtada" came from guards outside the execution chamber.

"I am certain that the chanting at the moment of the execution was not organized, and that those chanting were not being ordered to do so," al-Faroon told TV2. "The guards made a decision to do so by themselves. This is the truth. I shouted at them and ordered them to keep silent. My voice is very clear in the recording."

In the leaked video, one voice called: "Allah, bless those who pray for Muhammad and his descendants. Allah, pray for Muhammad and his descendants and may they bring us their help soon and curse their enemies and back their son Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada."

At that point Saddam asked, "Is this manly?"

A voice responded, "To hell."

Another voice called out, "Long live Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr" — a reference to the Dawa Party founder and Shiite cleric who was executed along with his sister by Saddam in 1980.

Then, a voice purportedly belonging to al-Faroon said: "Please no, this man is being executed, please no, I beg you no."

After Saddam was dropped through the trapdoor, a voice is heard shouting, "Don't rush, come back!" That suggests people were moving toward the body. However, the leader of Saddam's clan has said the body showed no signs of mistreatment after it was returned to Saddam's hometown Sunday.

It was unclear how many guards attended the execution. On the official video, seven people were on the gallows platform with Saddam. They included five guards in masks, a man without a mask whose face was blurred over, and a photographer.

Sadiq al-Rikabi, an adviser to the prime minister, told the U.S.-financed Al-Hurra television that he does not know who leaked the video and that such an act "is wrong and should be investigated, and I agree that cellular telephones were taken from witnesses before they boarded the helicopter" that headed to the execution site.

"I am full of hope that the results of the investigation will be announced, and the person who did this act should pay a price," al-Rikabi said. Still, the results of some Iraqi government probes in the past have not been released.

The Vatican's official newspaper on Tuesday decried media images of the hanging as a "spectacle" violating human rights and harming efforts to promote reconciliation in Iraq.

Within the country, Saddam's execution and the way it was conducted have provoked anger among Sunni Muslims, who have taken to the streets in mainly peaceful demonstrations across the country.

On Monday, a crowd of Sunni mourners in Samarra marched to a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine and were allowed by guards and police to enter the holy place carrying a mock coffin and photos of the former dictator.

The protest took place at the Golden Dome, a Shiite shrine bombed by Sunni extremists 10 months ago. That attack triggered the current cycle of retaliatory attacks between Sunnis and Shiites.

On Tuesday, police in Baghdad said they had found 45 bodies scattered around the city. Many had been blindfolded, handcuffed and shot, apparent victims of sectarian violence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070102/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq