Posted on 12/30/2006 1:00:51 AM PST by RWR8189
Dec. 30, 2006 - Ali Al Massedy was 3 feet away from Saddam Hussein when he died. The 38 year old, normally Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's official videographer, was the man responsible for filming the late dictator's execution at dawn on Saturday. "I saw fear, he was afraid," Ali told NEWSWEEK minutes after returning from the execution. Wearing a rumpled green suit and holding a Sony HDTV video camera in his right hand, Ali recalled the dictator's last moments. "He was saying things about injustice, about resistance, about how these guys are terrorists," he says. On the way to the gallows, according to Ali, "Saddam said, ‘Iraq without me is nothing.’"
Ali says he followed Saddam up the gallows steps, escorted by two guards. He stood over the hole and filmed from close quarters as Saddam dropped through—from "me to you," he said, crouching down to show how he shot the scene. The distance, he said, was "about one meter," he said. "He died absolutely, he died instantly." Ali said Saddam's body twitched, "shaking, very shaking," but "no blood," he said, and "no spit." (Ali said he was not authorized to disclose the location, and did not give other details of the room.)
Ali said the videotape lasts about 15 minutes. When NEWSWEEK asked to see a copy, Ali said he had already handed the tape over to Maliki's chief of staff. "It is top secret," he said. He would not give the names of officials in attendance, though he estimates there were around 20 observers. One of them, Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwaffak al-Rubaie, told CNN that Saddam clasped a Koran as the noose was tied around his neck, and refused to wear a hood. He also said that government officials had not decided whether or not to
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Hitler blamed the German people just before he shot himself I believe.
Sic semper tyranus.
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On Fox now.. he looks in like he is in shock.
I'm impressed he could get film to run through a video camera.
Sheesh.
He had reason to be. I think of Genesis - "And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man." I don't envy Saddam Hussein having to give God an accounting for the lives of his fellow men. He has the blood of thousands to account for - but not the blood of Jesus to save him.
you reap what you sow. Good riddance to a bloody savage!
I'm wondering if he was sedated.
If they wanted to see him shit his pants they should have used the chipper he liked he like to use. Hanging was too good for him.
He seemed dazed, and submissive. I actually felt sorry for the man, even though he deserved to be put to death.
"He seemed dazed, and submissive. I actually felt sorry for the man, even though he deserved to be put to death."
I understand the conflict, we know he needed to be dead, but we still have a very western, emotional revulsion to any mans killing, even when we support it.
It isn't logical, so it is an inappropriate feeling that we as rational men have to deal with.
It reminds me of us city kids when we hunt, we want to kill and eat the game but we feel sorry for our tasty meal.
Your compassion is seriously misplaced.
His dying was not a safe, secure event for him.
Maybe that's it ... he probably expects to negotiate with Satan.
Dative, please
Stop it! It's too early in the morning for me to have to replace a keyboard.
The last part of that quote by someone who is now in Hell should reverberate throughout the blogosphere as the exact sentiment of the Democrats, MSM, Liberals, and the UN:
"He was saying things about injustice, about resistance, about how these guys are terrorists," he says.
"Hey, will you guys keep it down! I am trying to enjoy my taxpayer paid South American vacation here!"
"President Bush is 'Fair Game'!"
It was not safe for Sadaam Hussein to die. And I'm not referring to the physical act of being executed. That was a Sunday school picnic compared to what he faces for all eternity.
In the end, he said his torture and murder would make him a "martyr."
Now he is in Hell - a terrible place. Hell is real.
To be honest, I would belong there too if it wasn't for the grace of Jesus Christ.
Saddam is now in the most terrible place withing Hell (if we can even imagine such a place).
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