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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.”
[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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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: sadam
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:44:54 PM PST
by
aculeus
To: Jo Nuvark
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:47:08 PM PST
by
Cogadh na Sith
(There's an open road from the cradle to the tomb.)
To: aculeus
“He said, ‘We’re going to heaven, and our enemies will rot in hell’. "We"? Sorry, Saddam, your demons already know where they're going. Same place as you, ultimately. And it ain't heaven.
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:47:56 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Circumstances are the fire by which the mettle of men is tried.)
To: aculeus
They took his filthy carcass to Tikrit. I hope they bury it facing straight down so Saddam can see where he's going.
):^(
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:48:35 PM PST
by
elcid1970
To: aculeus
Saddam Hussein's ACTUAL final words:
"Thailand"?
To: aculeus
'I watched Saddam die'".......and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!"
To: aculeus
The guards chanted the name of the Shi’ite firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. “Who is Moqtada?” — Saddam sneered. If all goes well, you'll be meeting him soon, Saddam.
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:54:33 PM PST
by
Allegra
(Vote Dulcie / Finbar 2008)
To: aculeus
From the article:
He started shouting his head off. Good.
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:55:06 PM PST
by
Enosh
To: EternalVigilance
“He said, ‘We’re going to heaven, and our enemies will rot in hell’.Maybe the mouse in his pocket is going to heaven......!
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:55:33 PM PST
by
Jay Howard Smith
(Retired(25yrsNCO)Military)
To: aculeus
Next!
To: aculeus
I counted only 7 turns in the noose around his neck. I always made 13 turns because I thought that was tradition. Guess nobody told 'em how to hang 'em high...
prisoner6
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:55:51 PM PST
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
To: elcid1970
If they've got any sense, they will cremate his remains and scatter the ashes in a secret location far out to sea.
No point in a ready-made martyr's shrine.
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:56:45 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: LdSentinal
Hangman: What are you? A six? Six and a half, maybe? Ah... here we are.
Saddam: It's a little tight.
Hangman: That's the idea! Ha ha ha!
To: aculeus
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:57:58 PM PST
by
B.O. Plenty
(liberalism, abortions and islam are terminal)
To: AnAmericanMother
Argentine style funeral from a C130 2000 NM off the coast.
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:58:38 PM PST
by
rahbert
To: operation clinton cleanup
I want too see this guy swinging with a rope around his neck.There will be No peace in Iraq untill Sadr is gone from this earth.
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:59:30 PM PST
by
puppypusher
(The world is going to the dogs.)
To: aculeus
Saddam Hussein’s executioners were disguised with black balaclavas. I thought you were supposed to eat these, not wear them!
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posted on
12/30/2006 6:59:40 PM PST
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
To: EternalVigilance
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posted on
12/30/2006 7:00:00 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: aculeus
"Whatcha doing for Eid, Saddam?"
Oh...just hanging around. You?"
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posted on
12/30/2006 7:00:39 PM PST
by
Allegra
(Vote Dulcie / Finbar 2008)
To: aculeus
“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... Yet more "last words" from Saddam. I'm going to start making a list of all his "last words." Some of these "witnesses" have to be lying.
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posted on
12/30/2006 7:03:00 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When I was a kid, "global warming" was known as "the weather.")
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