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Saddam taunted on gallows
Herald Sun ^ | 1 January 2007

Posted on 12/31/2006 8:55:58 PM PST by Aussie Dasher

SADDAM Hussein has been buried in the dead of night in his native village as shocking new footage of his hanging emerged.

Saddam's body was flown by US military helicopter to his home city of Tikrit in northern Iraq and, as agreed with US and Iraqi officials, buried in haste at nearby Awja in a 3am ceremony.

But even as he was laid to rest, new video footage of his hanging emerged, showing his body swinging from the gallows and Shiite officials taunting him to the very end.

Sectarian passions that have pushed Iraq toward civil war since US troops overthrew Saddam in 2003 could be further inflamed by the film.

"Go to hell!" one official yelled at the former president.

The jerky footage, apparently shot on a mobile phone by a guard or one of about 20 official observers at the dawn hanging, showed people in the execution chamber chanting the name of Shiite cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr and Saddam smiling back, saying: "Is this what you call manhood?"

After he falls through the trap, abruptly cut off in his recitation of the Muslim profession of faith, someone in the room cries "The tyrant has fallen!" and the film shows the 69-year-old former strongman swinging on the rope, his eyes open and his neck twisted at a 90-degree angle to his right.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deaddictator; hanging; saddam; taunts
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Shocking???

I don't think so...

1 posted on 12/31/2006 8:55:59 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

I reviewed the video several times and made following observations:

a)it's not shocking (hehe)
b)it's apparently only one person shouting Monkey al-Sadr's
name.
c)it's indeed a jerky cellphone video


2 posted on 12/31/2006 8:59:43 PM PST by SolidWood (Sadr lives. Kill him.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Saddam was lucky he wasn't boiled alive. He got off easy.


3 posted on 12/31/2006 9:00:04 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Aussie Dasher

The tyrant has fallen!


4 posted on 12/31/2006 9:00:37 PM PST by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Saddam was lucky he wasn't boiled alive. He got off easy.


5 posted on 12/31/2006 9:00:38 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Aussie Dasher

You Bathist bed wetting types! You stink like an bovine food trough wiper!

Go and boil your bottom in pig's intestines!

6 posted on 12/31/2006 9:02:43 PM PST by Loud Mime (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire)
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To: Aussie Dasher
he was shouting DIRECTIONS, not insults...

but who indeed shouted "go to hell"? they initially said saddam said it, which was like the pot calling the kettle black. weren't his feet being SCORCHED even as he neared the noose?

so who was yelling it? the so called taunter

7 posted on 12/31/2006 9:04:08 PM PST by wildwood
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To: Anti-Bubba182

What is their obsession with Saddam, anyway? It's like nobody who lifted a foot or a hand against him could do any right in the eyes of the drivebys, unless it was from an airplane loaded with smart bombs, like in '98. That they liked.


8 posted on 12/31/2006 9:04:10 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Loud Mime

Neet!


9 posted on 12/31/2006 9:04:24 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Aussie Dasher

10 posted on 12/31/2006 9:04:31 PM PST by Silly (sarcasmoff.com)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Saddam was lucky he wasn't boiled alive. He got off easy.

Given the horrific things he did to others, and the crimes he is guilty of, I am amazed he faced death so defiantly.

Obviously he had no clue he could ever be held accountable. Goes to show how hardened people can become in their sins.

11 posted on 12/31/2006 9:05:03 PM PST by Jorge
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new video footage of his hanging emerged, showing ... Shiite officials taunting him to the very end.

Those Shiities should be forced to take sensitivity training classes for their conduct!

12 posted on 12/31/2006 9:06:58 PM PST by NJRighty (Three things the left knows absolutely nothing about: The Constitution, nat'l defense and economics.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Please bump my Freerepublic approved video of his hanging!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8vWTNCJGWa4

5 stars and a nice comment please!


13 posted on 12/31/2006 9:12:17 PM PST by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: SolidWood; Aussie Dasher
As did I and I had one more observation; "The popcorn tasted great!"

Sharing Popcorn

14 posted on 12/31/2006 9:13:05 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Jorge

Saddam was self centered. It was all about him. He had nerve
and had long been an overlord. It is no surprise he was defiant and certain he was right.


15 posted on 12/31/2006 9:14:26 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Aussie Dasher

OMG, "taunted!". Where's the ACLU when you need them?? Are the liberals going to call for an investigation and heads to roll if a coverup is found?
("heads-to-roll...he he!)


16 posted on 12/31/2006 9:17:18 PM PST by GVNR (Always being "right" means you never have to say you're sorry for being a leftist!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Do they think we are suppose to care what happen to Saddam when he was hung?

Where were all these bleeding hearts in the press when Saddam was torturing people??


17 posted on 12/31/2006 9:21:05 PM PST by Mo1 (the violence will stop when US politicians step up to the plate and act united for victory and peace)
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To: struggle; beaversmom

Thanks for the link. Surprisingly I was able to watch it with my husbands encouragement.


18 posted on 12/31/2006 9:27:40 PM PST by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: Jorge

This is the same guy that took his young sons to a prison to watch the prisoners being tortured and made them execute some. This man was truely evil and yet the MSM sounds as though they mourn his dying.


19 posted on 12/31/2006 9:32:44 PM PST by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

at least they had the decency to keep his head panty-free.


20 posted on 12/31/2006 9:36:44 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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