Posted on 12/29/2006 9:11:00 AM PST by AVNevis
Since it now seems very imminent, I decided that it was an appropriate time to start this up. Links to information and pictures (if we get them) can be posted here.
Im not going to start a ping list, but if you do, put me on it.
Snowing like crazy here on the west side of Albuquerque.
Here we've had James Brown ad nauseum!
Otherwise known as "Standard Welcome To Hell, Mark 1, Mod 0"
Shep says we are on a death watch....damn right!
Let us know if you hear anything.
Now you're talking.... grade 60 sandpaper!
Hope the Iraqi police have issued a warning that they will shoot to kill if anyone breaks the curfew!
Welcome, Allegra!
Is this your first post on the Saddam Hanging thread?
I confess I haven't been able to read most of them...
Cures blemishes, age spots, and the occasional dictator right quick.
"And as strange as it may sound, we are on death watch for Saddam Hussein, execution coming. [sad music plays to fade out]"
Sheppy's going to cry before 4:00.
Like, "Live, from Baghdad, it's Saddam's execution!"
I just heard him say that! Tell us about it, Shep, we're approaching 900 posts here!
Oh, OK - must have been one of the Ditzy Chimps' husbands on a home visit, loving Texas so much.
Saddam, not feeling well about his upcoming hanging, and concerned about his mortality, askes to consult with a psychic about the date of his death.
His request is granted, and she is brought to his jail cell. Saddam askes her the question about when he will die.
Closing her eyes and silently reaching into the realm of the future, she finds the answer. "You will die on an American holiday."
"Which one?" Saddam asks nervously.
"It doesn't matter," replied the psychic. "Whenever you die, it will be an American holiday!"
US denies Saddam handed to Iraqis
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Friday, 29 December 2006, 18:46 GMT
Saddam Hussein's lawyers earlier said they had been notified of his handover to the Iraqi authorities. This follows intense speculation about the timing of his execution, with some reports that it may be imminent. Details have not been made public and may be revealed only afterwards to avoid civil disruption and unrest. "There has been no change in his (Saddam Hussein's) status," US State Department spokesman Tom Casey said. Saddam Hussein could be hanged at any time over the next four weeks, although one judge quoted by the Associated Press said he would die on Friday or Saturday. A senior official from the state department told the BBC a diplomatic cable had been sent to all US embassies warning them to prepare for Saddam Hussein's execution within days. US forces in Iraq are braced for any backlash following the execution, defence department officials said. The BBC's Peter Greste in Baghdad says all the legal hurdles have now understood to have been cleared and that if anything is likely to hold up the execution, it would be administrative details. An appeal against Saddam Hussein's execution for the killings of 148 Shias in Dujail in the 1980s failed earlier this week. 'Dignity of victims' The former Iraqi leader has been in US military custody at Camp Cropper in Baghdad. Earlier on Friday his lawyers said they had been asked to dispose of Saddam Hussein's personal effects. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said there would be no delay in carrying out the death sentence. "No-one can oppose the decision to execute the criminal Saddam," Mr Maliki was quoted by AFP as saying. "Those who reject the execution of Saddam are undermining the dignity of Iraq's martyrs." Our Baghdad correspondent says the timing is significant: Mr Maliki has always said he wanted to see the former leader hanged before the end of the year, and Saturday is also the first day of the Muslim Eid festival, when most Iraqis will be at home. Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a lengthy trial. A trial in a second case, genocide against Kurds, continues against him.
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See that picture...now just push him back down in his hole and fill it in. Fitting end for a rat!
From http://hotair.com :
Update: It’s 2:48 and Fox just broke in to say, according to an unnamed Iraqi MP, the execution’s “imminent” and that he’s been handed over to them. Meanwhile, ABC News is hearing that it’ll happen over the weekend and that Saddam will remain in U.S. custody until it does. It’s got to be disinformation. I hope so, anyway — otherwise it means the military had to renege on their plan to transfer him, which can’t be good no matter what the explanation.
LOL. :)
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