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.
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Brownwater Navy, 1969-1970.
Elvis was the King of Rock 'n Roll.
Saddam is the latest resident of Satan's frying pan.
It's NOT funny to make a photo joke confusing the two.
Shame on you.
hot stuff...
nothinglike precision accuracy... why wasnt sadr sticking his head up?
right now, Sadr owns Maliki.
Yeah. I remember right after Baghdad fell how this fatass and a bunch of his sixth century godless heathens killed that other religious leader who was on our side. I knew right then we were going to be in for a long haul. The U.S. should have captured and shot this pig on that day. If we had done that, we'd be finished up in Iraq today.
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