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'I watched Saddam die' [Details!]
The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | December 31, 2006 | by Marie Colvin

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.”

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“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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To: aculeus
I was Saddam's substitute Chemistry teacher!


21 posted on 12/30/2006 7:03:30 PM PST by Silly (http://tinyurl.com/wgn5o)
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To: Silly

You're so, er, silly


22 posted on 12/30/2006 7:04:57 PM PST by aculeus
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To: FlingWingFlyer

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.


23 posted on 12/30/2006 7:06:09 PM PST by SolidWood (Sadr lives. Kill him.)
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To: aculeus
He was silent until he saw a video camera, and then began shouting slogans such as ‘God is great’. He started his rhetoric: ‘Long live Islam, down with Persia’, down with this and that. He started shouting his head off.”
24 posted on 12/30/2006 7:08:32 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: AnAmericanMother

"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!


25 posted on 12/30/2006 7:11:29 PM PST by elcid1970
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To: elcid1970

I saw the video he went better than I would have. I would have been crying like a bitch. Good riddance,,,


26 posted on 12/30/2006 7:13:22 PM PST by lndrvr1972
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To: LdSentinal

Saddam Hussein's ACTUAL final words:

"Plastic"


27 posted on 12/30/2006 7:15:05 PM PST by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: SolidWood

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!"


28 posted on 12/30/2006 7:15:10 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When I was a kid, "global warming" was known as "the weather.")
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To: Cicero

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


29 posted on 12/30/2006 7:15:19 PM PST by Red Rock Rocks
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To: GretchenM
Baccarat? Bacharach?
30 posted on 12/30/2006 7:24:21 PM PST by Solamente (Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...)
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To: lndrvr1972

"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.


31 posted on 12/30/2006 7:31:36 PM PST by elcid1970
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To: AnAmericanMother
No point in a ready-made martyr's shrine.

Or someplace for Iraqis and Americans to pee on.

In Tikrit, by the way.

32 posted on 12/30/2006 7:36:43 PM PST by Allegra (Vote Dulcie / Finbar 2008)
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To: Cogadh na Sith

You rock!!!


33 posted on 12/30/2006 7:49:49 PM 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: aculeus
If you watch the cellphone video, he looks at the gallows and says in Arabic, "Ain't this a bitch. Why are you all wearing hoods?"

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.

34 posted on 12/30/2006 7:54:14 PM PST by StAnDeliver
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To: TRY ONE

"Rosebud."


35 posted on 12/30/2006 7:55:41 PM PST by clintonh8r
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To: elcid1970
I hope they bury it facing straight down so Saddam can see where he's going

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.

36 posted on 12/30/2006 8:01:14 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: aculeus
Image hosted by Photobucket.com Ain't skeeerd...

Oooops... i think i crapped my pants!!!

37 posted on 12/30/2006 8:09:31 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Last word: "Rosebud."


38 posted on 12/30/2006 8:19:10 PM PST by hummingbird (All opinions spoken from my armchair and have no actual bearing on the war.)
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To: clintonh8r

Should have read whole thread first....arghhhh!


39 posted on 12/30/2006 8:25:01 PM PST by hummingbird (All opinions spoken from my armchair and have no actual bearing on the war.)
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To: hummingbird

bttt


40 posted on 12/30/2006 8:26:57 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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