Posted on 12/26/2006 7:01:04 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
Saddam Hussein could be hanged within days after the rejection of his appeal by Iraq's highest court yesterday.
The former Iraqi dictator was sentenced to death in November over the killing of 148 Shia Muslims from the town of Dujail in 1982. He is facing another trial accused of genocide against the Kurds - but that may now never be completed.
The death sentence from the first trial must be implemented within 30 days, the chief judge, Aref Shahin, said yesterday, hinting that it could come even sooner: "From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation."
Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, a member of the Shia majority persecuted under Saddam's Sunni-minority rule, has already said he wants the execution to take place before the end of the year.
One option would be to do it without prior announcement in an attempt to forestall possible protests - though some Shia elements have called for the hanging to be televised. Saddam, 69, is in the custody of US forces, so Washington could also have a say in the timing....."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Never happen in the states on tv.COMING SOON TO YOU TUBE
Yea, but he IS in the custody of US forces. Congressfolks but in on stuff like this, and make us wimp out.
:-(
My popcorn is ready.
Well, nothing wrong with the broadcast. Hopefully al Jazeera would carry it far and wide in that dunghill of ME. Indeed, nothing wrong with the hanging taking place in public - say, in Halabja.
....sooner, rather than later, bump.
Ya thats it! Let the SOB stew wondering when its gonna happen. I say let him stew for quite a while and when the bastard feels nice and comfy, haul his ass out and send him to dance on the end of the rope.
Time for a party.....!
You Tube will definitely have this video. If not, someone on the net will have it.
BTW...this WILL have a definite positive effect in Iraq!
The Soviet people were still terrified of Stalin for 10 years after he was dead! that is how strong brutal dictators are. And many Iraquis have been afraid that Sadamm could have come back to power.
If they do what they are saying he can't stew for long. It's
30 days tops.
Yes, but nobody said it had to be live TV. They could tape it and run it later. They wouldn't even have to say it was taped.
LOL.
I hope some enterprising wiz is able to make an animated picture of Saddam swinging on the rope.
Thinking of Saddam doing the Texas Rope Dance along with all his buds for some reason brings to mind that scene from "BLAZING SADDLES" and the Hangman. 8^)
Still, there would be something simply marvelous about dropping the ball on Times Square and the trap door on Saddam simultaneously . . . just before the new congress takes over.
Rather see the actual thing via the Internet (will never be on TV). That way I can enjoy his “crying, screaming and fighting protests, all the way to death. And I would be willing to bet that he will go to his death as a crying wimp, fighting all the way.
LOL!!! Great!
It will be a positive heartwarming moment for many, many good Iraquis!
It will be the first execution on YouTube!!!
As far as I’m concerned, there is only one question that ought to matter with regard to Saddam’s fate: will executing him advance our efforts to establish a stable Iraq?
IMO, the answer is “we don’t know” – another example of something that’s all too common in Iraq – something happening as a result of a process put in motion without much consideration of its ultimate effect.
Then only thing we know for sure is that hanging Saddam sets the precedent: in a place where all of the groups and most of the leaders contending for power have blood on their hands, whichever faction is in power in Baghdad at the moment get to hang members of the others.
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