Posted on 11/05/2006 1:13:43 AM PST by indianrightwinger
Saddam To Be Hanged Updated: 09:08, Sunday November 05, 2006
Saddam Hussein has been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death.
The former dictator will be hanged, a court in Baghdad's Green Zone complex ruled.
Saddam was convicted of ordering the deaths of 148 Shia men and teenage boys in the town of Dujail in 1982.
The killings followed a failed assassination attempt against him in 1982 and were intended to act as a grim warning to others not to oppose him.
Facing charges alongside him were Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former vice-president, Barzan Ibrahim al Tikriti - Saddam's half-brother - former judge Awad Ahmad al Bander and four party officials from Dujail.
Security was stepped up in Baghdad in anticipation of a violent reaction to the announcement of the verdict.
Saddam, who was captured by US forces in December 2003, is still seen as the figurehead of many of the insurgent Sunni groups conducting a campaign of terror against Coalition troops and Iraqi civilians.
More than 100 US troops were killed in Iraq in October, making it one of the bloodiest months for American forces since the invasion in March 2003.
The civilian death toll is estimated at somewhere between 45,000 and more than 650,000.
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Pull the thread, quick!
Why?
Let me be the first on this thread to blame Israel.
What happened to the North Korean dwarf thread?
You looking for a play by play about it? Your post was the third out of three responses to it, successfully planting that silly tune in my head.
And to hell with his vityims, the DNC says so.!!
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