Saddam set to Hang Maybe Tomorrow

schwarcw
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edited December 2006 in The Clubhouse
NBC News and news services
Updated: 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
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 at sundown Saturday.
The hanging could take place as early as Friday, NBC’s Richard Engel reported.
The U.S. military received a formal request from the Iraqi government to transfer Saddam to Iraqi authorities, NBC reported on Thursday, which is one of the final steps required before his execution. His sentence, handed down last month, ordered that he be hanged within 30 days.
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.”
“According to the international conventions, it is forbidden to hand a prisoner of war to his adversary,” Saddam’s lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, said in Amman, Jordan.
“I urge all the international and legal organizations, the United Nations secretary-general, the Arab League and all the leaders of the world to rapidly prevent the American administration from handing the president to the Iraqi authorities,” he told The Associated Press.
Meets with half-brothers
Saddam met with two of his half-brothers on Thursday and passed on personal messages to his family, a lawyer said.
Badie Aref, one of Saddam's lawyers, said the rare meeting with maternal half-brothers Sabawi and Watban Ibrahim Hassanal-Tikriti, who are in U.S. custody, was at the request of the ousted Iraqi leader and took place inside his heavily guarded prison cell in Baghdad.
Aref said Saddam was in very high spirits and had sensed “something was happening relating to the sentence” when prison guards took away a small radio he had been given several months ago.
“He met Sabawi and Watban and gave them letters to his family in anticipation.... He is clearly unaware of the details of what is happening around him and prepared to give his life as a martyr to his country,” Aref told Reuters by telephone.
Carl

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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited December 2006
    I **** in his general direction.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited December 2006
    After they hang him , they should beat him like a pinyata
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited December 2006
    beardog03 wrote:
    After they hang him , they should beat him like a pinyata
    Nah. Before and/or during.
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited December 2006
    If he is truly the definition of a martyr for the region, I vote to turn the sand to glass............
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited December 2006
    Unfortunately, he's old news to the ppl that are really motivated.
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited December 2006
    Killing him will make him more powerful. It will give his comrades even greater motivation to continue wreaking havoc on American soldiers. That's why he wants to be a martyr.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited December 2006
    What? He's not Obe Wan, Early. He's a criminal.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,645
    edited December 2006
    Hanging is too good for him.
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited December 2006
    I'll be celebrating. Anyone care to join me in a Now your Dead, and we're happy! party?
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited December 2006
    schwarcw wrote:
    His sentence, handed down last month, ordered that he be hanged within 30 days.

    "Hanged for 30 days" seems more appropriate in their culture. Good riddance.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,786
    edited December 2006
    In for a penny, in for a pound. The United States can not afford to let him live. The common Iraqi people have a great fear that Saddam will come back into power, so he needs to die.

    Having said that, the US should be very, very prepared for a demonstration of terrorist power after the hanging. They will use his hanging, and the subsuquent terrorist display, to show the Arab world, "See ! We punished the US for it's evil !".

    In retrospect, it's kind of a shame that the tunnel that Saddam was hiding in didn't collapse during his capture. :(
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited December 2006
    they really should behead him with a dull rusty kitchen knive. make it last for 5 hours. sorry that's the best i could do.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited December 2006
    RuSsMaN wrote:
    What? He's not Obe Wan, Early. He's a criminal.


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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited December 2006
    mrbigbluelight wrote:
    Having said that, the US should be very, very prepared for a demonstration of terrorist power after the hanging. They will use his hanging, and the subsuquent terrorist display, to show the Arab world, "See ! We punished the US for it's evil !".

    Agreed, and it will be ironic that more American soldiers will die because Saddam was hanged.
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited December 2006
    The only problem is he won't be alone. He deserves company and so do we.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited December 2006
    F1NUT wrote:
    Hanging is too good for him.

    I say they should give him a dose of his own nerve gas, that he used on his own people.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,838
    edited December 2006
    You guys do realize that it was not the U.S. that condemned Saddam to death, right? We were only holding him as a criminal of war because Iraq had no real way of securely detaining him for his trial. The referenced article even states that the Iraqi authorities are requesting that the U.S. turn him over for execution. On top of that, he is a prisoner of war and protected by the Geneva convention. The terrorists might not follow it but we do. However, if hks trial is complete, a verdict reached and a sentence handed down then he is a war criminal now and no longer a prisoner of war. Therefore, his lawyer's attempt at blocking extradition should be thrown out on that technicality. Bottom line though, Saddam was sentenced to death by his own people for the crimes he has committed against them. If the stupid terrorists are going to retaliate against the U.S. for executing Saddam, they are going to be way off base.

    Iraq is going to kill Saddam, not the U.S. We only removed him from power by force.
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,338
    edited December 2006
    The US has handed him over the the Iraqi authorities. His death will happen very quickly. Maybe within hours. In fact, it might be done.

    From NBC News:

    “The American side has notified us that they have handed over the president to the Iraqi authorities,” said Khalil al-Dulaimi, head of Saddam’s defense team.

    Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld Saddam’s death sentence, said that “Saddam will be executed today or tomorrow. All the measures have been done.”
    Carl

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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited December 2006
    schwarcw wrote:
    The US has handed him over the the Iraqi authorities. His death will happen very quickly. Maybe within hours. In fact, it might be done.

    From NBC News:

    “The American side has notified us that they have handed over the president to the Iraqi authorities,” said Khalil al-Dulaimi, head of Saddam’s defense team.

    Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld Saddam’s death sentence, said that “Saddam will be executed today or tomorrow. All the measures have been done.”
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited December 2006
    Is it tomorrow yet? ;)
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited December 2006
    Stretch his f#ckin neck...
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited December 2006
    I've always been a big fan of drawn and quartered and drug to the four corners of the empire.

    It ought to be almost tomorrow in Baghdad. tick tock tick tock
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  • MikeC78
    MikeC78 Posts: 2,315
    edited December 2006
    Jstas wrote:
    You guys do realize that it was not the U.S. that condemned Saddam to death, right? We were only holding him as a criminal of war because Iraq had no real way of securely detaining him for his trial. The referenced article even states that the Iraqi authorities are requesting that the U.S. turn him over for execution. On top of that, he is a prisoner of war and protected by the Geneva convention. The terrorists might not follow it but we do. However, if hks trial is complete, a verdict reached and a sentence handed down then he is a war criminal now and no longer a prisoner of war. Therefore, his lawyer's attempt at blocking extradition should be thrown out on that technicality. Bottom line though, Saddam was sentenced to death by his own people for the crimes he has committed against them. If the stupid terrorists are going to retaliate against the U.S. for executing Saddam, they are going to be way off base.

    Iraq is going to kill Saddam, not the U.S. We only removed him from power by force.

    Ditto! Nice explanation, Jstas.

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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited December 2006
    Let the piece of **** be dead! Dead or alive, free or behind bars, those retarded **** terrorists will keep coming after the US, so it makes no difference. They have nothing else better to do than to come up with excuses as to why we are the great Satan of the earth.

    Hang him and let the Iraqi people drag his body through the streets!
    No excuses!
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited December 2006
    "An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. Also to be hanged at that time were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, the adviser said."

    T minus 187 minutes, and counting.
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited December 2006
    Sing it with me!

    Nana nah nah
    Nana nah nah
    Hey Hey Hey
    Goodbye!!

    See ya muthaf**ka!!
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited December 2006
    Mr. Bigbluelight's last sentence is a winner. Lot of trouble would've been saved all around. Although deep down, I admittedly have a lot of weird feelings.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited December 2006
    Does Saddam hang low?
    Does he wobble to and fro?
    Can you tie him in a knot?
    Can you tie him in a bow?
    Can you throw him o'er your shoulder
    like a big jackass dictator?
    Does Saddam hang low?

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  • swchma
    swchma Posts: 49
    edited December 2006
    Let him go, it is !@!@!@!@ to prey on a death. Please do not wish harm on anyone
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited December 2006
    Tell that to all the people he killed:

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