Saddam Hussein
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Has just got hanged!
His dead!
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how u noe ar?
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, a witness said.
"Saddam's body is in front me," said an official in the prime minister's office when CNN telephoned. "It's over."
In the background, Shiite chanting could be heard. When asked about the chanting, the official said "These are employees of the prime minister's office and government chanting in celebration."
The witness reported that celebrations broke out after Hussein was dead, and that there was "dancing around the body."
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not attend the execution, according to an adviser to the prime minister who was interviewed on state television.
The execution was videotaped and photographed, state television reported, and those images will be distributed to the media.
Al-Arabiya television network reported that Barzan Hassan, Hussein's half-brother, and Awad Bandar, former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were hanged after Hussein. All three were convicted of killings in the Iraqi town of Dujail nearly 25 years ago.
Earlier, Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld the former dictator's death sentence, and an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki each confirmed the paperwork needed for Hussein's execution had been prepared late Friday.
At the same time, a U.S. district judge refused a request to stay the execution.
Attorney Nicholas Gilman said in an application for a restraining order, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, that a stay would allow Hussein "to be informed of his rights and take whatever action he can and may wish to pursue."
Haddad had called Gilman's filing "rubbish," and said, "It will not delay carrying out the sentence," which he called "final."
Haddad wouldn't disclose the location of the execution and said it wouldn't be broadcast live on TV because of human rights issues.
Throughout the day, there were conflicting reports about who had custody of Hussein. Giovanni di Stefano, one of Hussein's defense attorneys, told CNN the U.S. military officially informed him that the former Iraqi dictator had been transferred to Iraqi but that the move in U.S. court could have meant that Hussein was back in U.S. custody.
There had been speculation that Hussein would be executed before Eid Al-Adha -- a holiday period that means Feast of the Sacrifice, celebrated by Muslims around the world at the climax of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The law does not permit executions to be carried out during religious holidays.
Eid began Saturday for Sunnis and Sunday for Shiites and lasts for four days. Hussein is a Sunni Muslim.
Anyway its all around de internet & news!
jUST happened -
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shot or hanged?
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kenna hang.Originally posted by dragg:shot or hanged? -
orh, skarly tmr new:
saddam returned to life, neither bullets or rpg or bombs can kill him....MUAHAHHAHA
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he deserves to get his balls cut off and left there to die slowly
Farking asshole.
He is a son who No mother/father wants.
Hope No parent gets a son like him! Ever.
Those who dont know much about this.... Go and read up on him & see what he did to thousands of ppl -
http://sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=228343
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While i don't condone his past crime.
I feel sorry that I think he did not receive a fair trial.
Circumstances surrounding his trial is so obvious he did not have a fair trial and that the trial is influenced by US. -
happy new year iraq!
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the atrocities he committed was also very obvious.Originally posted by Ponders:While i don't condone his past crime.
I feel sorry that I think he did not receive a fair trial.
Circumstances surrounding his trial is so obvious he did not have a fair trial and that the trial is influenced by US.
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So much for democracy huh.Originally posted by Ponders:While i don't condone his past crime.
I feel sorry that I think he did not receive a fair trial.
Circumstances surrounding his trial is so obvious he did not have a fair trial and that the trial is influenced by US. -
in fark.com it was featured as "Saddam Hussein officially starts his homosexual relationship with Satan"
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Nice one, Bear Bear...Originally posted by the Bear:in fark.com it was featured as "Saddam Hussein officially starts his homosexual relationship with Satan"
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*Applauds* Mature thinking indeed and I fully agreed with you..Originally posted by Ponders:While i don't condone his past crime.
I feel sorry that I think he did not receive a fair trial.
Circumstances surrounding his trial is so obvious he did not have a fair trial and that the trial is influenced by US.
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i have to ask.. in such a trial, what constitutes "fair" ?
it will never be "fair" in everyone's eyes no matter how factually and objectively done... it will be seen as "US influence" even if it was tried in the Hague... -
Not so much about being fair. BUt the point to which he got hanged... this is what happened.Originally posted by the Bear:i have to ask.. in such a trial, what constitutes "fair" ?
it will never be "fair" in everyone's eyes no matter how factually and objectively done... it will be seen as "US influence" even if it was tried in the Hague...
9/11 happened. US invades Afghanistan. Declares a crusade against Terrorism.
Bush accuses Iraq of having WMD and use that as a basis of invasion.
Invaded Iraq, found no WMD. Captured Saddam.
Claimed that Saddam is to be tried locally because his crimes are against his citizens (when other said this was because Hague does not have death sentence)
Basically how it got to this point was totally unrelated to the initial reason why US wants to invade Iraq.
US uprotted Shia power and placed Shiite ppl in power.
Now, which Shiite don't want him dead?
The judges that tried Saddam were US trained judges. Talk about fairness. -
ok good
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Look at Adu Bakar in indonesia. Did he get the justice he deserved? If Saddam Hussein is trial in Indonesia, his surviving rate is high. Agree?
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saddam hussein = RIP
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maybe... with all those corruption going onOriginally posted by (human):Look at Adu Bakar in indonesia. Did he get the justice he deserved? If Saddam Hussein is trial in Indonesia, his surviving rate is high. Agree? -
Saddam was a pawn in the game of influence in the Middle East.
His overthrow of the Baath administration and subsequent self-installation was given the silent nod by the Yanks, and in 1984, Donald Rumsfeld visited Baghdad and was given a reception by Saddam himself, during the early stages of the Iran-Iraq war. The French sold Saddam SAMs, and Mirage fighters, the Yanks allowed him to use WMDs against Iran. -
saddam is dead...
