Posted on 12/30/2006 6:44:53 PM PST by aculeus
THE knock on the door came just before 6am. Saddam Hussein’s executioners were disguised with black balaclavas.
He spent his last minutes yesterday in the sordid bowels of Iraqi military intelligence headquarters, once home to his own torturers and killers.
Just as the dawn call to prayer was beginning over the city, he was led, shambling in leg irons, to the scaffold to pay the price for his crimes against the Iraqi people.
“We took him to the gallows room and he looked like he wondered what was going on,” said Mowaffak al-Rubaie, the Iraqi government’s national security adviser, who saw him die. “He looked at the gallows not believing what was going to happen.”
[big snip]
“He said, ‘We’re going to heaven, and our enemies will rot in hell’.
“When he was taken to the gallows, the guards tried to put a hood on his head, but he refused. Then he recited verses from the Koran. Some of the guards started to taunt him.”
The guards chanted the name of the Shi’ite firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. “Who is Moqtada?” — Saddam sneered.
“A cleric who was present asked Saddam to recite some spiritual words,” Haddad said. “Saddam did so, but with sarcasm. These were his last words, and then the cord tightened around his neck and he dropped to his death.”
Copyright 2006 Times Newspapers Ltd.
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You're so, er, silly
I saw the video recorded by a cellphone in the audience, and he is muttering some words before death. It's inaudible. Seems like a prayer or some verse... could be anything. As I said, everyone puts his own interpretation or agenda in his dirty mouth.
"No point in a ready-made martyr's shrine"
Gee, like did anyone in Iraq even THINK of that possibility?
The Russians ground Hitler's remains into fishmeal before they ever even considered their next step!
I saw the video he went better than I would have. I would have been crying like a bitch. Good riddance,,,
Saddam Hussein's ACTUAL final words:
"Plastic"
Yeah. But all these reports about "Saddam's Last Words" are going to cause a lot of confusion when the question comes up on "Jeopardy." I just read that he said something like "Palestine Belongs To The Arabs" or something like that. Another report said that he shouted, "Pizza! Pizza!"
Here is a link to the cellphone video, you can watch him drop and swing!
Well if you are so inclined..
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=863ce7d4a3
"he went better than I would have"
That's because you're a normal human being with a normal conscience. Had you been one of Saddam's innocent victims, of course you would have been filled with uncontrollable panic. As would I.
But Saddam was pure evil. Full of rage and defiant to the very end, believing that fate would somehow intervene and prevent his much-deserved end.
Unlike you or I or any other normal human.
Or someplace for Iraqis and Americans to pee on.
In Tikrit, by the way.
You rock!!!
He disdained his own hood with a wave of his hand. "I never win at pin the tail on the donkey. That's what we're here for. The hoods, right? Right guys?"
Then he shouted for someone to bring him his bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, adding "Allah Fubar, I'll go first.", and that's when the floor gave out from under him.
"Rosebud."
Perhaps they'll bury him with his ass sticking out of the ground. That way his friends will have a place to park their bikes when they visit.
Ain't skeeerd... 
Oooops... i think i crapped my pants!!!
Last word: "Rosebud."
Should have read whole thread first....arghhhh!
bttt
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