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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2006 21:10:48 GMT -6
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi television station Al Hurra said Saddam Hussein had been executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Saturday. The former Iraqi president ousted in April 2003 by a U.S.- led invasion was convicted in November of crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shi'ite villagers from Dujail after a failed assassination bid in 1982. An appeals court upheld the death penalty on Tuesday. Iraq's government has kept details of its plans to conduct the execution completely secret amid concerns it could spark a violent backlash from his former supporters. news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061230/ts_nm/iraq_dc_56
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2006 21:16:33 GMT -6
Saddam Hussein 'executed in Iraq' Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location, reports say. Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). It was witnessed by a doctor, lawyer and officials. It was also filmed. US troops and Iraqi security forces are on high alert for any violent backlash. Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the 1982 killings of 148 Shias in the town Dujail. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6218485.stm
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Post by andy28 on Dec 29, 2006 21:54:06 GMT -6
America is 2 faced. To them hanging is cruel and unusual yet they hand him over to the iraqis for hanging.
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Post by Rebel Yell on Dec 29, 2006 21:56:55 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2006 21:58:48 GMT -6
Note the differences between the pics of the Butcher of Baghdad on the webpages of Fox news and Al-CNN
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 29, 2006 21:58:55 GMT -6
America is 2 faced. To them hanging is cruel and unusual yet they hand him over to the iraqis for hanging. When did America say hanging is cruel and unusual?
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Post by rugratsgalore on Dec 29, 2006 22:00:09 GMT -6
You're very wrong. We handed Saddam over to the Iraqi people for THEM to execute him in the manner THEY use. It was their choice of how to execute him. Hanging has been their method for many years. How are Americans being two-faced when WE didn't carry out the execution? This cruel and unusual BS gets old. Did Saddam slaughter in a humane manner? I think they all suffered far worse than Saddam did. America is 2 faced. To them hanging is cruel and unusual yet they hand him over to the iraqis for hanging.
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Post by rugratsgalore on Dec 29, 2006 22:01:10 GMT -6
I love it!
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Post by Donnie on Dec 29, 2006 22:01:48 GMT -6
America is 2 faced. To them hanging is cruel and unusual yet they hand him over to the iraqis for hanging. Here is a clue so that you know what a clue looks like. There are few Americans who believe that hanging is cruel and unusual punishment. If you can grasp that clue, you will no longer be clueless.
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Post by Lauren on Dec 29, 2006 22:03:25 GMT -6
America is 2 faced. To them hanging is cruel and unusual yet they hand him over to the iraqis for hanging. When did America say hanging is cruel and unusual? They didn't. Andy just doesn't know how the law works.
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Post by grandma on Dec 29, 2006 22:05:41 GMT -6
You're very wrong. We handed Saddam over to the Iraqi people for THEM to execute him in the manner THEY use. It was their choice of how to execute him. Hanging has been their method for many years. How are Americans being two-faced when WE didn't carry out the execution? This cruel and unusual BS gets old. Did Saddam slaughter in a humane manner? I think they all suffered far worse than Saddam did. America is 2 faced. To them hanging is cruel and unusual yet they hand him over to the iraqis for hanging. Yes rugs, it is cruel to Andy because he wants people to get the chair
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Post by malcolmx on Dec 29, 2006 22:09:49 GMT -6
We call these people backwards but we are no different.
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 29, 2006 22:10:20 GMT -6
Saddam Hussein was hanged at dawn today in Baghdad for crimes against humanity, a dramatic end for the deposed dictator who ruled Iraq in a 30-year reign of terror. The execution took place in front of official witnesses including Iraqi politicians, representatives of the coalition, and family members at around 6am local time (3am GMT) this morning. The former president, who was ousted after the coalition invasion in March 2003 and captured the following December, was handed over by US troops to Iraqi authorities just minutes before the hanging was carried out. Army chiefs in Iraq are bracing themselves for a violent backlash to the execution. US forces were on standby to expect a surge in suicide attacks by Sunni supporters of the former dictator and foreign terrorists. The execution went ahead after a day of confusion amid claim and counterclaim as to whether it would be carried out before the start of the week-long Muslim Eid al Adha holiday at noon today. Senior aides to the Shi'ite-backed Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr Nuri al Maliki, said he had given the execution order yesterday, with approval from the president and the justice minister. But a final decision on timing came only after a meeting in the small hours with US officials. Also to be hanged were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibra-him and Awad Hamed al Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court. During a sermon yesterday in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, a mosque preacher described Saddam's execution as "God's gift to Iraqis". The signal that the "butcher of Baghdad", convicted on November 5 by an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity, was facing his final hours came from Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld the sentence. He said: "Saddam will be executed . . . All the measures have been completed." The news came despite a last-minute appeal by lawyers for Saddam asking an American court to stop the execution and his transfer from US custody to the hands of Iraqi officials. Mr al Maliki said opposing Saddam's execution was an insult to his victims. "Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him, and there will be no review or delay in carrying out the sentence," he said. Earlier, the former dictator's defence team was told to collect his belongings and it was reveal-ed Saddam had been visited in his cell by his brothers on Thursday, a right a condemned man has before he is executed. One lawyer said prison guards had taken away a small radio Saddam had been given several months ago and noted how the former tyrant had sensed "something was happening". Saddam, who has boasted that he is not afraid to die, was reported by the lawyer to be in "very high spirits" as he awaited his appointment with the hangman, thought to be at the US Army's Camp Cropper, once Baghdad's Saddam International Airport. Najeeb al Nuaimi, one of Saddam's defence team, said the execution was to be filmed, and possibly shown on television later. For one Iraqi emigre, the former leader's execution could not come soon enough. Kamal Ketuly, now living in Glasgow, insisted the former tyrant should be executed "this very minute". Mr Ketuly was in his second year of studying for a PhD at Glasgow University when his mother, father, sisters and brothers were among countless victims of Saddam's regime. His brother Jamal, and 11 of his cousins were held hostage and taken to the infamous Abu Ghraib jail. Mr Ketuly has heard nothing about the whereabouts of his family since the early-1980s. On Tuesday, an Iraqi appeals court upheld the death sentence for the killing of 148 people detained after an attempt to assassinate the former president in the northern Iraqi city of Dujail in 1982. www.theherald.co.uk/news/77736.shtml#inSection
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 29, 2006 22:11:48 GMT -6
We call these people backwards but we are no different. Who are "these people"?
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Post by grandma on Dec 29, 2006 22:13:31 GMT -6
We call these people backwards but we are no different. We're backwards?
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Post by malcolmx on Dec 29, 2006 22:15:50 GMT -6
Yes grandma we are, if you think any form of violence is acceptable...which includes executions.
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Post by andy28 on Dec 29, 2006 22:16:39 GMT -6
You're very wrong. We handed Saddam over to the Iraqi people for THEM to execute him in the manner THEY use. It was their choice of how to execute him. Hanging has been their method for many years. How are Americans being two-faced when WE didn't carry out the execution? This cruel and unusual BS gets old. Did Saddam slaughter in a humane manner? I think they all suffered far worse than Saddam did. America aided and abetted the execution - a bit like throwing someone into a lions enclosure. If he was in British custody we would have refused to hand him over without a promise that the DP would not be sought. I'm not saying thats right it's just a fact.
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 29, 2006 22:18:06 GMT -6
Yes grandma we are, if you think any form of violence is acceptable...which includes executions. Well then I guess Saddam must have been very backwards considering all the murdering he did!
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 29, 2006 22:19:12 GMT -6
America aided and abetted the execution - a bit like throwing someone into a lions enclosure. If he was in British custody we would have refused to hand him over without a promise that the DP would not be sought. I'm not saying thats right it's just a fact. Maybe they'll learn something about hastening executions!
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Post by grandma on Dec 29, 2006 22:20:36 GMT -6
Yes grandma we are, if you think any form of violence is acceptable...which includes executions. I don't consider the DP a form of violence. It is a punishment for acts of violence which lead to the death of a human being.
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Post by andy28 on Dec 29, 2006 22:20:49 GMT -6
America is 2 faced. To them hanging is cruel and unusual yet they hand him over to the iraqis for hanging. When did America say hanging is cruel and unusual? Ain't you the nation that worries incase the condemned may feel the *jerk* from a LI needle? Trust me, America would never forcibly hang a person.
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Post by malcolmx on Dec 29, 2006 22:22:24 GMT -6
I think it's interesting that Americans criticize Arab countries and radical Islamic sects as being "barbaric" on account of their usage of corporal and capital punishments (e.g., stoning, beheading). I think it's even more interesting that many of these same Americans would revere such behaviors should our government codify them as policy. Ah, the similarities between the radical right-wing in the U.S. and terrorist cells abroad...
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 29, 2006 22:22:25 GMT -6
When did America say hanging is cruel and unusual? Ain't you the nation that worries incase the condemned may feel the *jerk* from a LI needle? Trust me, America would never forcibly hang a person. Certain people probably, but the natiion as a whole no.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2006 22:23:08 GMT -6
You're very wrong. We handed Saddam over to the Iraqi people for THEM to execute him in the manner THEY use. It was their choice of how to execute him. Hanging has been their method for many years. How are Americans being two-faced when WE didn't carry out the execution? This cruel and unusual BS gets old. Did Saddam slaughter in a humane manner? I think they all suffered far worse than Saddam did. America aided and abetted the execution - a bit like throwing someone into a lions enclosure. If he was in British custody we would have refused to hand him over without a promise that the DP would not be sought. I'm not saying thats right it's just a fact. You seem to forget that he was tried in an Iraqi court under existing Iraqi law and executed under the same exisitng law that was in place when he was in power. So his fate was sealed by his own laws. A fitting end.
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Post by josephdphillips on Dec 29, 2006 22:23:45 GMT -6
Yes grandma we are, if you think any form of violence is acceptable...which includes executions. Oh, are you a pacifist? The real Malcolm X wasn't.
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Post by Californian on Dec 29, 2006 22:25:15 GMT -6
I think it's interesting that Americans criticize Arab countries and radical Islamic sects as being "barbaric" on account of their usage of corporal and capital punishments (e.g., stoning, beheading). I think it's even more interesting that many of these same Americans would revere such behaviors should our government codify them as policy. Ah, the similarities between the radical right-wing in the U.S. and terrorist cells abroad... Who cares what you think, Malcolm the Tenth?
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Post by malcolmx on Dec 29, 2006 22:25:39 GMT -6
Yes Stormy, let's hang them as soon as possible, then we wouldn't have to worry about appeals...which has found many innocent men on death row.
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Post by rugratsgalore on Dec 29, 2006 22:26:39 GMT -6
How was the beheading of Nick Berg in Iraq capital punishment? When was Nick Berg tried and convicted of a capital crime??? I think it's interesting that Americans criticize Arab countries and radical Islamic sects as being "barbaric" on account of their usage of corporal and capital punishments (e.g., stoning, beheading). I think it's even more interesting that many of these same Americans would revere such behaviors should our government codify them as policy. Ah, the similarities between the radical right-wing in the U.S. and terrorist cells abroad...
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Post by Stormyweather on Dec 29, 2006 22:26:51 GMT -6
Yes Stormy, let's hang them as soon as possible, then we wouldn't have to worry about appeals...which has found many innocent men on death row. Who?
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Post by josephdphillips on Dec 29, 2006 22:27:34 GMT -6
I think it's interesting that Americans criticize Arab countries and radical Islamic sects as being "barbaric" on account of their usage of corporal and capital punishments (e.g., stoning, beheading). I think it's even more interesting that many of these same Americans would revere such behaviors should our government codify them as policy. Ah, the similarities between the radical right-wing in the U.S. and terrorist cells abroad... Specious reasoning. Who says capital punishment is wrong in Arab countries? I certainly haven't.
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