Posted on 09/07/2006 7:20:06 PM PDT by aculeus
The brutal excesses of Saddam Hussein's regime were relived yesterday as Iraq's new government announced that it had hanged 27 prisoners convicted of terror and criminal charges.
Mass executions at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, which has several gallows erected in the execution chamber, were suspended after coalition-led troops overthrew Saddam three years ago. The death penalty was reinstituted in 2004, and yesterday's executions took place just days after control of Abu Ghraib was handed over to the Iraqi authorities.
An Iraqi Justice Ministry official said two of those hanged had been convicted of terrorism charges, and the other 25 – including a woman – were convicted of murder and kidnap. [snip]
"This is the message I have for the terrorists," he said of the hanged prisoners, "we will see that you get great punishment wherever you are. There is nothing for you but prison and punishment." [snip]
Concern about the Iraqi government's increasingly authoritarian attitude was further heightened yesterday afternoon when it ordered the Arabic satellite channel al-Arabiya to close its Baghdad office for a month.
The station is based in Dubai and is considered to be one of the Middle East's more objective channels. It announced live on air that police had entered its studios in the centre of the city. In July Mr Maliki's office issued a warning to television stations against broadcasting gruesome footage that focused on the victims of insurgent attacks.
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Quick and easy justice.
Ahh... Objective journalism.
pics should be placed all over the internet in the Arab World
Gotta say....
There's a part of me that admires Saddam for keeping the lid on that nut house (Iraq) for all those years. I think that we now understand why it took a SOB like Saddam to run the place.
If he would've allowed inspectors, and would've refrained from invading his neighbors, he's still be sitting in one of his palaces.
Well, my feelings about what lovely folks the Iraqi's are I guess has been confirmed.
More prisoners need to be heading there.
Well, it is under new management. None of that pile of naked men stuff.
Snuffin' people, a couple dozen at a time, hardly seems like progress to me.
"There's a part of me that admires Saddam for keeping the lid on that nut house (Iraq) for all those years. I think that we now understand why it took a SOB like Saddam to run the place."
I think you don't know the Middle East. While most countries there are ruled by dictators and kings, they do not need to be as brutal as the Butcher of Bagdad (Saddam).
You got that right. If it were a return to the old days, those prisoners would have been fed feet first through industrial cardboard shredders.
You're against capital punishment for terrorists and murderers?
Saddam served no purpose other than his own pleasure.
This was an underware free hanging.
The people in the Middle East, and particularly those most immediately affected by the terrorists understand that neither the terrorists, or those in the Middle East that want to be rid of them give one %^&%$( twit about the U.S. justice system giving the terrorists their "rights", via the courts and John McPain's Al Queda Bill of Rights law.
Maybe the Iraq military, without our PC constraints, just might get the terrorists cleaned up.
I am much in agreement with you. Saddam understood them better than we ever could, If he hadnt been power mad and allowed inspections he would still be in charge.
Hang them High, or low, just make sure they can't kill again.
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