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Witness: Hussein argues with guards, moments before death
CNN ^ | December 30, 2006

Posted on 12/30/2006 10:21:36 AM PST by jmc1969

Defiant to the end, Saddam Hussein mocked Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr moments before he was hanged, a witness said Saturday.

The Iraqi government executed Hussein before dawn as punishment for his role in a massacre of his own people, more than two decades before he was toppled by a U.S.-led invasion.

A video of the execution broadcast on Al-Iraqiya state television showed Hussein, dressed in a black overcoat, being led into a room by three masked guards. (Watch noose placed around Hussein's neck -- graphic content, viewer discretion advised )

A witness, Iraqi Judge Munir Haddad, said that one of the executioners told Hussein that the former dictator had destroyed Iraq, which sparked an argument that was joined by several government officials in the room.

As a noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.

Hussein, a Sunni, uttered one last phrase before he died, saying "Muqtada al-Sadr" in a mocking tone, according to Haddad's account.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mookienextplease; saddamshanging
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1 posted on 12/30/2006 10:21:37 AM PST by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

He's still dead.


2 posted on 12/30/2006 10:22:36 AM PST by Dallas59 (HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!)
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To: jmc1969

bump for later


3 posted on 12/30/2006 10:23:48 AM PST by swmobuffalo (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
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To: jmc1969

al-Sadr may follow Saddam to all those high-bosomed virgins in Allah's afterlife whorehouse at some point in the near future; who knows?


4 posted on 12/30/2006 10:24:42 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: jmc1969
Video

(This video shows him after the arguments, presumably).

5 posted on 12/30/2006 10:25:39 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: jmc1969
Hussein, a Sunni, uttered one last phrase before he died, saying "Muqtada al-Sadr" in a mocking tone, according to Haddad's account.

Well, it's possible the Iraqis hanged the right guy in the wrong order. ;)

6 posted on 12/30/2006 10:25:40 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: jmc1969

al-Sadr is going to be next. We are still looking for some steel cable that will hold his weight. al-Sadr should have been shot as soon as we took over Baghdad. He's a pig.


7 posted on 12/30/2006 10:28:21 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When I was a kid, "global warming" was known as "the weather.")
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To: jmc1969

It was a green M&M's rant wasn't it?


8 posted on 12/30/2006 10:29:30 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: jmc1969

Saddam still should've been shot the day they found him.


9 posted on 12/30/2006 10:30:46 AM PST by Dallas59 (HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!)
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To: jmc1969

Don't know what to make of this. One unconfirmed source (Mr. Hadddad) doesn't convince me. It would make sense for pro-Sadrist circles/Sadrists to spread this as an urban myth, to leave an impression along the lines that somehow Sadr was executing Saddam, or that justice was deliverd by Sadr.

Anyway Saddam is dead now. Time to hang Sadr.


10 posted on 12/30/2006 10:32:47 AM PST by SolidWood (Sadr lives. Kill him.)
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"dressed in a black overcoat'. . .

Interesting; and perhaps a 'right move' to let him wear the coat as opposed to his wearing prison garb only. . .that and the fact that they allowed his refusal to wear mask. . .seems at least a bone of consideration to this grotesque tyrant's supporters. . .

11 posted on 12/30/2006 10:33:15 AM PST by cricket (Save a Terrorist - join the Democrats/Live Liberal Free; or suffer their consequences)
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(Watch noose placed around Hussein's neck -- graphic content, viewer discretion advised )

Too bad CNN didn't issue this WARNING when they showed film of AMERICAN SOLDIERS being MURDERED!!!

SPIT!!!

12 posted on 12/30/2006 10:33:19 AM PST by kcvl
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"long live Muqtada al-Sadr,"

too funny......2007 is going to be al-Sadrs exit point.


13 posted on 12/30/2006 10:37:11 AM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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We still have a day left for 2006... the earlier, the better, right? Sigh, at least one of us should be right...


14 posted on 12/30/2006 10:39:55 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: Dallas59

He's morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably dead. Not only merely dead, he's really most sincerely dead.

15 posted on 12/30/2006 10:40:11 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The artist doesn't have to have all the answers; he must, however, ask the right questions honestly.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; FlingWingFlyer; Chi-townChief; Mr. Jeeves; swmobuffalo; Dallas59; jmc1969; ...

OK... I'm no expert on real hangin's, but I've seen
enough fake movie hangin's to wonder ... what was the
possible purpose of all that material around Saddam's
neck that "padded" the noose?

(Flame Suit On)


16 posted on 12/30/2006 10:40:52 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark

It's bad enough getting hung without getting rope burn too. They couldn't find any Gold Bond Powder.


18 posted on 12/30/2006 10:43:13 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Dallas59
Family resemblance?


19 posted on 12/30/2006 10:43:36 AM PST by bannie
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To: cricket
"...and the fact that they allowed his refusal to wear mask."

Does anyone have a credible source for this? I think that it is unlikely that they even offered him a mask. The Iraqi government would not want any doubt about who was hanged...though I would agree that when the U.S. turned him over to the Shia government there really wasn't a lot of doubt he would end up dead soon.

20 posted on 12/30/2006 10:44:16 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet
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