Saddam Hussein Is Executed Quick Fresh

[Hiaito 0]

No news topics are available online yet, since I posted this 20 minutes after it was announced on the news. He was executed, finally.

[Erin 0]

I'm already bracing myself for the worst. He was apparently executed 35 minutes or so ago.I seriously have a sick feeling in my stomach... I don't know... something is gonna happen - something bad. I hope not though. Me no wanna die!!

Edited December 30, 2006 by Erin (see edit history)

[Saint_Michael 3]

One Evil down Osama is next. $5 bush is jumping for joy right now that he finished the family feud that started in 1990. Of course expect that video to pop up over the net in the next few days as well.

[Erin 0]

I seriously doubt Osama will ever be caught. I knew Saddam would, but Osama... not very likely.

And as far as Bush goes... He finished his daddy's dirty work - good for him And all he had to do was have thousands of his citizens die on 9/11, invade 2 innocent countries for zero reason, have thousands upon thousands of soldiers and innocent others killed, and, let's not forget, cheat his way into office to do so. Wow, he so deserves a pat on the back - NOT. But I'm sure Bushy is so very proud of himself - I can hear the champagne flowing as we speak and his stammering through a sickening thank-you speech.

I need to go to bed... LMAO :D
 

Saddam Hussein executed for war crimes

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in shambles, was taken to the gallows and executed Saturday.

It was a grim end for the 69-year-old leader who had vexed three U.S. presidents. Despite his ouster, Washington, its allies and the new Iraqi leaders remain mired in a fight to quell a stubborn insurgency by Saddam loyalists and a vicious sectarian conflict.

President Bush called Saddam's execution "the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime."

State-run Iraqiya television news reported that Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, also were hanged. However, three officials said only Saddam was executed.

"We wanted him to be executed on a special day," National Security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie told state-run Iraqiyah.

Al-Rubaie said Saddam "totally surrendered" and did not resist. He said a judge read the sentence to Saddam, who was taken in handcuffs to the execution room. When he stood in the execution room, photographs and video footage were taken, al-Rubaie said.

"He did not ask for anything. He was carrying a Quran and said: 'I want this Quran to be given to this person,' a man he called Bander," he said. Al-Rubaie said he did not know who Bander was.

Mariam al-Rayes, a legal expert and a former member of the Shiite bloc in parliament, told Iraqiya television that the execution "was filmed and God willing it will be shown. There was one camera present, and a doctor was also present there."

Al-Rayes, an ally of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, did not attend the execution. She said Al-Maliki did not attend but was represented by an aide.

The station earlier was airing national songs after the first announcement and had a tag on the screen that read "Saddam's execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq's history."

The execution was carried out around the start of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic world's largest holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the hajj. Many Muslims celebrate by sacrificing domestic animals, usually sheep.

Sunnis and Shiites throughout the world began observing the four-day holiday at dawn Saturday, but Iraq's Shiite community ďż˝ the country's majority ďż˝ was due to start celebrating on Sunday.

The execution came 56 days after a court convicted Saddam and sentenced him to death for his role in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a town where assassins tried to kill the dictator in 1982. Iraq's highest court rejected Saddam's appeal Monday and ordered him executed within 30 days.

A U.S. judge on Friday refused to stop Saddam's execution, rejecting a last-minute court challenge.

Al-Maliki had rejected calls that Saddam be spared, telling families of people killed during the dictator's rule that would be an insult to the victims.

"Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him, and there will be no review or delay in carrying out the sentence," al-Maliki's office quoted him as saying during a meeting with relatives before the hanging.

Human Rights Watch criticized the execution, calling Saddam's trial "deeply flawed."

"Saddam Hussein was responsible for massive human rights violations, but that can't justify giving him the death penalty, which is a cruel and inhuman punishment," said Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program.

The hanging of Saddam, who was ruthless in ordering executions of his opponents, will keep other Iraqis from pursuing justice against the ousted leader.

At his death, he was in the midst of a second trial, charged with genocide and other crimes for a 1987-88 military crackdown that killed an estimated 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq. Experts said the trial of his co-defendants was likely to continue despite his execution.

Many people in Iraq's Shiite majority were eager to see the execution of a man whose Sunni Arab-dominated regime oppressed them and Kurds.

Before the hanging, a mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Friday called Saddam's execution "God's gift to Iraqis."

"Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done! He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighboring countries and he is responsible for mass graves. Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam," said Sheik Sadralddin al-Qubanji, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

On Thursday, two half brothers visited Saddam in his cell, a member of the former dictator's defense team, Badee Izzat Aref, told The Associated Press by telephone from the United Arab Emirates. He said the former dictator handed them his personal belongings.

A senior official at the Iraqi defense ministry said Saddam gave his will to one of his half brothers. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

In a farewell message to Iraqis posted Wednesday on the Internet, Saddam said he was giving his life for his country as part of the struggle against the U.S. "Here, I offer my soul to God as a sacrifice, and if he wants, he will send it to heaven with the martyrs," he said.

One of Saddam's lawyers, Issam Ghazzawi, said the letter was written by Saddam on Nov. 5, the day he was convicted by an Iraqi tribunal in the Dujail killings.

The message called on Iraqis to put aside the sectarian hatred that has bloodied their nation for a year and voiced support for the Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency against U.S.-led forces, saying: "Long live jihad and the mujahedeen."

Saddam urged Iraqis to rely on God's help in fighting "against the unjust nations" that ousted his regime.

Najeeb al-Nauimi, a member of Saddam's legal team, said U.S. authorities maintained physical custody of Saddam until the execution to prevent him being humiliated publicly or his corpse being mutilated, as has happened to previous Iraqi leaders deposed by force. He said they didn't want anything to happen to further inflame Sunni Arabs.

"This is the end of an era in Iraq," al-Nauimi said from Doha, Qatar. "The Baath regime ruled for 35 years. Saddam was vice president or president of Iraq during those years. For Iraqis, he will be very well remembered. Like a martyr, he died for the sake of his country."

Iraq's death penalty was suspended by the U.S. military after it toppled Saddam in 2003, but the new Iraqi government reinstated it two years later, saying executions would deter criminals.

Saddam's own regime used executions and extrajudicial killings as a tool of political repression, both to eliminate real or suspected political opponents and to maintain a reign of terror.

In the months after he seized power on July 16, 1979, he had hundreds of members of his own party and army officers slain. In 1996, he ordered the slaying of two sons-in-law who had defected to Jordan but returned to Baghdad after receiving guarantees of safety.

Saddam built Iraq into a one of the Arab world's most modern societies, but then plunged the country into an eight-year war with neighboring
Iran that killed hundreds of thousands of people on both sides and wrecked Iraq's economy.

During that war, as part of the wider campaign against Kurds, the Iraqi military used chemical weapons against the Kurdish town of Halabja in northern Iraq, killing an estimated 5,000 civilians.

The economic troubles from the Iran war led Saddam to invade Kuwait in the summer of 1990, seeking to grab its oil wealth, but a U.S.-led coalition inflicted a stinging defeat on the Iraq army and freed the Kuwaitis.

U.N. sanctions imposed over the Kuwait invasion remained in place when Saddam failed to cooperate fully in international efforts to ensure his programs for creating weapons of mass destruction had been dismantled. Iraqis, once among the region's most prosperous, were impoverished.

The final blow came when U.S.-led troops invaded in March 2003. Saddam's regime fell quickly, but political, sectarian and criminal violence have created chaos that has undermined efforts to rebuild Iraq's ruined economy.

While he wielded a heavy hand to maintain control, Saddam also sought to win public support with a personality cult that pervaded Iraqi society. Thousands of portraits, posters, statues and murals were erected in his honor all over Iraq. His face could be seen on the sides of office buildings, schools, airports and shops and on Iraq's currency.

SOURCE: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Edited September 27, 2016 by OpaQue (see edit history)

[kasm 0]

I seriously doubt Osama will ever be caught. I knew Saddam would, but Osama... not very likely.

 

And as far as Bush goes... He finished his daddy's dirty work - good for him And all he had to do was have thousands of his citizens die on 9/11, invade 2 innocent countries for zero reason, have thousands upon thousands of soldiers and innocent others killed, and, let's not forget, cheat his way into office to do so. Wow, he so deserves a pat on the back - NOT. But I'm sure Bushy is so very proud of himself - I can hear the champagne flowing as we speak and his stammering through a sickening thank-you speech. ..

1. Before I start, I want stree that I am not iraques, arab nor moslem.

 

2. This another mistake US did hat allow that happened after all the reasons to invade Iraq are false. If a police caught somebody and charged him then if their case are false, the police have to aspologise and compensate . They are not allowd to change the charges and find another crime. If the police has permission to search house for a weapons and they find insteaf "drugs" can not be charged with possing drugs.

 

3. Morever that Bush said after wake up that " ..despite his terrible crimes against his own people, Saddam Hussein received a fair trial." Calling that joking trial as fair trial is another lie from Bush.

 

4. There are lot od dectators in the middle East, Pakistan and Chili are with the blessing of US.

 

5. The real challenge is catching Osama and approve that he kill these thousands of Americans

[Yacoby 0]

I really don't understand what difference this will make to anything. Saddam Hussein isn't even involved in the insurgency, and executing him, rather than making it better may end up making it worse. Also, Bush (I think) said that the trial was fair, but I don't see how it was fair when they sacked the judge that may have been in Saddams favor. In my opinion they were always going to find him guilty whatever, and the trial was just for show.The invading troops (Americans, British etc) have killed more innocent civilians that Saddam did, and it looks like Iraq will in a full scale civil war by the end of next year. In a way, they would have been better with Saddam.

[Lyon2 0]

I do not aprove he should be executed but since that already happened, i just want to say that that is the worst political decision ever made.Besides the fact that the "chihitas" are going to put the "streets" filled with blood again, the execution will make Saddam a martir among the ones that are on his side in this "story".Of course he made bad things, very bad things, but i do not think executing him will make things better, au contraire!

[delivi 0]

I'm happy that the trial of Saddam was very fair, but I didnt want him to be hanged. The US should have made him live in prison for his life time. Because hanging him will make things worse and also getting the harted of his followers. Whreas I they'd let him live there will be no loss for anyone.Please Tell me If I'm wrong.

[husker 0]

I agree delivi. Sure he did a lot of bad things, killed people, etc but he still doesn't have to die. Put him in jail forever or something else a little less cruel. It seemed the Iraqis wanted him to die, so it is somewhat understandable.

I seriously have a sick feeling in my stomach... I don't know... something is gonna happen - something bad. I hope not though. Me no wanna die!!

I think that the supporters of Saddam will rebel in some sort of way, but the only unsafe place would probably be Iraq (unless Saddam told someone where his weapons of mass destruction were ) I don't believe that anything good will come out of this and it will be looked down as a sad event in history for most of the world.

[Erin 0]

Very well said, everyone! I completely agree with all of you. Anyway, I actually didn't feel bad for Saddam until this morning when I - unfortunately - turned the channel over on CNN (to see if they were showing Gerald Ford funeral footage) and boom - there's Saddam about to die. I don't know... I keep flipping on how I feel about all this. Yes, he deserved punishment but at what cost? To only make him a martyr? I don't know... I read something elsewhere from someone where they said that he could have at least been given some dignity and I agree. To video tape it, to dance around his body, to show his last moment over and over on television, etc... personally, I find that all offensive, sickening, and just plain wrong. Yes, he was a bad person and yes, he did not allow others to die with dignity either but where does his evil end and our kindness begin? If it were me, I would have allowed him to go out with some dignity to show that I were a better person. To not allow him (or his sons) that just makes the "good guys" look like bad people too.Just 2 more cents worth of my opinion on the matter

Edited December 30, 2006 by Erin (see edit history)

[tractor 0]

This could make it worse because the shiites will be mad and going on a rampage now. But apparently his half brother was also executed but officials now say it was only him. I want to know why it took them 2 years to hang him. Why so long?

[brandon10092 0]

Sadam's hanging is revenge for all the people he killed during the three decades or so that he was in charge of Iraq. I think life in prison really would have been going too easy on the guy. After the thousands of people he killed, we can't execute him for all the crimes? He had it coming. Now all we need to do is find Osama.

[Spyda 0]

really? who is this saddam u talk bout? I kno of no saddam......juss pullin a jimmySaddam is a no good man who deserves this one mate, and he iis gonna spend eternity in the old fireplace if u no wat it means

[Thorned Rose 0]

I've always been a firm believer in "an eye for an eye" so I'm glad he finally got it. But like Erin said, it came at a huge cost which can in no way be justified. War can never be justified no matter what excuses people use.They should have assassinated him when they had the chance. But for some reason people prefer that countries go to war and kill large numbers of innocent people rather than bumping a few people off on the quiet. Stupid and egotistical really :/

[Erin 0]

Same here, Thorned Rose! I have always believed that "and eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." I just don't get the logic behind getting revenge... it doesn't bring a person back, or make things right again.And war... what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!