Posted on 12/30/2006 5:26:38 PM PST by fanfan
Warning.
This is the video.
Click on the link above.
You need to read this and watch the footage on TV again...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061231/D8MBH3G80.html
New Videos Show Graphic Saddam Images
Dec 30, 8:25 PM (ET)
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With a blank expression, Saddam refused a black hood - but he did so with a shake of his head that seemed more distracted than defiant.
Then he appeared to agree to let one of his executioners tie a black scarf around his neck. The Times reported that his guards explained the rope could cut off his head, and offered to protect his neck with the scarf.
In the televised video, Saddam stood stoically as the noose was slipped over his head. The noose was tightened. Then the Iraqi TV footage ended.
But the camera phone video, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera and aired in full on Arabic-language Web sites, continued.
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LOL
They are outside thank god!
I found this interesting...
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Saddam's half brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were originally scheduled to be hanged along with their former leader.
Iraqi officials, though, decided to reserve the occasion for Saddam alone.
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from here...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061231/D8MBH3G80.html
One of my favorite authors.
There is plenty of information if you search for it on the science of hanging. The loop of the hanging noose merely acts as the fulcrum, and when the body reaches the end of the drop, the noose tightens--yes, but it causes the large heavy knot to very rapidly slap the side of the head causing the spinal cord to separate, the theory being, instant death.
That's just media driven B.S. It doesn't prevent the Jihadists from killing, no so called muzzie 'holy day' does. It never stopped Mohammad either, and guess whose example they follow?
Thanks for the ping
As is so often said, it's not the fall, it's the sudden stop...
(fill in the blank) angers Muslims on this (fill in the blank) Muslim holiday causing (fill in the blank) casualties.
[..."Let him swing for three minutes."...]
Thanks. This article explains a lot.
I have enjoyed the exchange. It has been
a good day for conspiracy theories?
-- Rejoicing Jo --
Exactly. They know very well how to take advantage of our anti American leftist media and the entire left for that matter. The RATS don't care about anything but regaining power, even if it means turning victory into defeat as was done in Vietnam, and offering up millions of Iraqi's who DO want democracy and freedom to take hold in their country rather than radical Islam, as victims, just as the RATS did to the south Vietnamise.
Ewwww - that really looks weird. NOBODY'S head can go back like that normally.
Ask your neighbor, "Why?" "For what purpose?"
Check out post 11, does that look like they faked the hanging to you?
By the way, how's Elvis doing? He's just back from an exhausting tour of the Galaxy but he is relaxing comfortably at area 51. P.S., E.T. gives us his regards.
They gave him enough slack in the rope and used a large hangmans knot. In this picture you can tell that they almost ripped his head off (notice the blood on the back of his neck).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/dallas59/Post%20pics/saddam.jpg
That large hangmans knot slams hard against the head causing his head to slam backwards and to the right while at the same time the rope tightens around his neck due to the free fall and his weight.
He was dead before 3 minutes had passed.
Haven't you heard? I am Baghdad Bob!!! LOL!!!
Happy New Year and may God bless you.
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