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Pakistani child imitating Saddam's hanging dies
AFP ^ | 01/01/07

Posted on 01/01/2007 5:19:20 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Pakistani child imitating Saddam's hanging dies

1 hour, 14 minutes ago

MULTAN, Pakistan (AFP) - A young boy who tried to copy hanging scenes from the execution video of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein died in central Pakistan, police said.

Mubashar Ali, 9, hanged himself, while re-enacting Hussein's hanging with the help of elder sister, 10, after tying a rope to a ceiling fan and his neck in his home in Rahim Yar Khan district Sunday, a local police official said.

The father of the deceased boy said that his children had been watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution on television and attempted to imitate the hanging as other family members thought they were playing in another room.

"My wife and sister rushed to rescue Mubashar when children cried for help from the adjoining room, but he died due to hanging," Alamgir Paracha, father of Mubashar, told AFP.

Police said that the death was accidental and a case of parental negligence.

"It was an accident which happened due to carelessness of parents," district police chief Sultan Ahmad told AFP.

Images of the fallen Iraqi dictator with a noose around his neck, surrounded by executioners in balaclavas, were repeatedly telecast by Pakistani television channels at the weekend.

Commentators and the media across Europe had expressed shock and unease Sunday at graphic television pictures showing the last moments of Hussein just before his execution.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: copycat; darwinawwardwinner; death; haning; latherrinserepeat; mustnotlaugh; saddam
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To: skinkinthegrass; All
Hero Worship....Yessiree, Son. I want you to become just like Saddam....DEAD...w/ a death count of millions.

And just as likely not. . (.how can we know from this story?)

Could as easily be these people were watching this; like so many others; so to see for themselves; that this tyrant is gone, in fact. Maybe even to giving their children a lesson of evil. . .

WhatEVER the case here; these children got the wrong message, for sure.

But any lol's here, do seem out of place; and appear more than a bit judgmental and hate(full) as well.

61 posted on 01/01/2007 7:13:21 AM PST by cricket (Save a Terrorist - join the Democrats/Live Liberal Free; or suffer their consequences)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; ...
Pity it wasn't Mookie al-Sadr.


62 posted on 01/01/2007 7:13:24 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (Tell Tom Vilsack to WEAR THE BEAR!)
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To: antivenom

Good point and good analogy.


63 posted on 01/01/2007 7:15:49 AM PST by Thombo2
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To: skinkinthegrass; cricket; All
Maybe even to giving their children a lesson of evil. .

. . .ahhhh. . .that is supposed to be a 'lesson ON evil'. . .

64 posted on 01/01/2007 7:23:32 AM PST by cricket (Save a Terrorist - join the Democrats/Live Liberal Free; or suffer their consequences)
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OMG....no...can't...help...it...HAHAHAHAAA....there,cereal all over the keyboard....thanxxxx.
65 posted on 01/01/2007 7:29:23 AM PST by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"The father of the deceased boy said that his children had been watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution on television"

Who could've imagined such a tragic end to some good, clean family fun. < /sarcasm >

Do these Islamic scum have any redeeming qualities whatsoever?

66 posted on 01/01/2007 7:32:31 AM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This supports what I have been saying for years - there should be no rope in a house. Rope kills people. The second amendment be damned - remove all rope now. Thousands die each year because there is rope around - its just senseless - it doesn't need to happen.


67 posted on 01/01/2007 7:33:03 AM PST by MarkT
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To: DB
Why would parents have their young kids watch a hanging???

Because they are Moose Limbs. They probably gave him the rope. Too bad they lost their opportunity to use him for a bomb.

68 posted on 01/01/2007 7:38:34 AM PST by Octar
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To: csvset
Don't try this at home kids !

The kids have were watching "Captain Hangaroo", when all hell broke loose...

69 posted on 01/01/2007 7:43:19 AM PST by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I take it that when they say "imitating Saddam" they don't mean that he was taking over a country by force, attacking his neighbors, gassing his own people, and killing hundreds of thousands for no reason other than the glorification of his own ego?

Didn't think so.

70 posted on 01/01/2007 7:46:53 AM PST by tcostell (MOLON LABE)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wonder if it would work on "Fat'Teddy?


71 posted on 01/01/2007 7:58:24 AM PST by ustanker (The cave dwellers are happy!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Sometimes kids do stupid things, and hurt themselves, and that is sad. Sometimes adults revel in it; that's really sad. One is a case of stupidity from a not-yet mature mind; the other is a case of stupidity from a chronically immature mind.


72 posted on 01/01/2007 8:04:06 AM PST by Caesar Soze
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To: Prodigal Son
You could maybe throw out a 'nits grow into lice' comment to round it out.

One thing I've noticed about all of these analogies.

Truth.

73 posted on 01/01/2007 8:06:58 AM PST by ExGeeEye (Day 228 (counting up))
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To: ExGeeEye

Wouldn't it be much more effective to just kill all their children then? The adults will grow old and die in time. Without children, no new adults. Just kill the kids. Problem solves itself, no?


74 posted on 01/01/2007 8:25:46 AM PST by Prodigal Son
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To: Prodigal Son

There will come a time, in the not-too-distant future, when each of us will have to choose sides and grimly set about doing what must be done. Should such a task fall to me, God grant me the determination to see it through rather than go all squishy about how cute they would look in matching sailor suits.


75 posted on 01/01/2007 8:28:11 AM PST by ExGeeEye (Day 228 (counting up))
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To: Prodigal Son
dehumanize!!!!...hell they are doing that with be-headings, and their rejoicing in blood letting...the witnesses to Saddam's excution convinced me that the Muslims are 500 years behind western culture...not the hanging, but their mindless taunting of him seconds before his demise....just plain animals....it will take a 1000 years of interbreeding to get rid of the Muslim genes....
76 posted on 01/01/2007 8:33:27 AM PST by thinking
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To: thinking

"the witnesses to Saddam's excution convinced me that the Muslims are 500 years behind western culture...not the hanging, but their mindless taunting of him seconds before his demise....just plain animals...."

Taunting a convicted murderer before executing him is a little distasteful. But then we have posters in this thread celebrating the accidental death of a nine year old child. Don't be too quick to pronounce the superiority of 'western culture'.


77 posted on 01/01/2007 8:51:20 AM PST by Canard
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The Superman TV show had a similar effect.


78 posted on 01/01/2007 8:51:57 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Idiots.


79 posted on 01/01/2007 9:05:48 AM PST by Chewie84
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To: SpringheelJack; ShadowDancer

It seems popular lately to emulate what you hate.


80 posted on 01/01/2007 9:09:10 AM PST by FReepapalooza
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