Saddam Hussein Hanging LIVE Thread

[AVNevis]

Since it now seems very imminent, I decided that it was an appropriate time to start this up. Links to information and pictures (if we get them) can be posted here.

[j_tull]

Forgive my impertinence, whine away. I was only suggesting that the offended parties conduct this drama in private. Carry on.

[GitmoSailor]

That's because they are so long you have to be eating to stay alive!!!

[kcvl]

Local Kurdish organization applauds impending hanging of Saddam

By: North County Times wire services -

SAN DIEGO - The director of an El Cajon-based Kurdish organization said today the impending execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will bring long-sought justice to his people.

Kurds welcome what's coming to Hussein, who reportedly will be hanged in a matter of hours, said Raving Barwari of Kurdish Human Rights Watch.

Barwari said he felt "satisfaction -- justice will finally be served."

He was quick to add that he did not normally support the death penalty, but this case was "an exception."

More than 180,000 Kurds are believed to have been killed under the rule of Hussein, who took over in a coup in 1969 and led Iraq until he was deposed by the United States in 2003, Barwari said.

Hussein also used lethal gas on Kurds.

"People just disappeared without a trace," Barwari said.

[MaestroLC]

I am listening to the pathetic ABC news radio and they are saying that some Iraqis may be insulted because this weekend is supposed to celebrate forgiveness. WTF is that garbage???

[RebelBanker]

Still awaiting the short drop and sudden stop...

[TexanToTheCore]

The method of governing for Saddam, Stalin and Lenin was terror. It was not an addition to general management. It was the management method. It is hard for us to understand, but that is the unvarnished truth.

[Jet Jaguar]

Agreed.

[AVNevis]

CNN confirms Kristinn's report that some Arab networks report execution within the hour.

[altura]

"Get a room, you two..."

Excuse me, that won't work. I'm his new girlfriend now.

[MamaB]

You know, I love to read westerns and especially by William W. Johnstone. He said in his books that a hanging was an all day affair with families coming from miles away to see one. But, as he said, there was not much going on back in those days. I do not think I could ever watch one but believe me, this nut needs one.

[SevenofNine]

Gee TOM that probably reason I haven't seen Katie all day she know Saddam going died in few hours ROFL

[CougarGA7]

I cant think of a place Id rather be.

[GitmoSailor]

That's because they are so long you have to be eating to stay alive!!!

[battlegearboat]

I'm watching "Everybody Likes Raymond" on TBS and FReeping.

[yield 2 the right]

[MaestroLC]

It's no fun on an empty stomach. :)

[Tax-chick]

He was an incredible writer. He could write about hogs eating the wounded on the battlefield and make it beautiful.

[oceanview]

within an hour?

[RonDog]

See also, from www.11alive.com:

...An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. [aka 7 pm CA time, as you posted]

Also to be hanged at that time were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, the adviser said...

[kcvl]

Saddam close to gallows

BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials finalised plans on Friday for the execution of Saddam Hussein amid reports the deposed leader could be killed within hours and fears of an insurgent backlash once he hangs.

An Iraqi judge who has been asked to witness the execution, Moneer Haddad, told reporters on Friday that he had been put on standby for a hanging that could take place “maybe tonight or tomorrow”.

And Sami al-Askari, a member of Iraq’s main Shia parliamentary bloc and a consultant to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said: “All documents relating to the implementation of the execution are compiled and ready.”

“Saddam has only a very short time ahead of the implementation of the execution. The execution will be either before dawn on Saturday, or immediately after the Eid holiday,” Askari said.

Maliki himself told the families of some of the ousted president’s victims that Saddam would be put to death without delay, as US authorities scrapped a visit to the deposed leader by his defence lawyers.

“According to information in our possession, Saddam will be executed at dawn on Saturday,” said one of Saddam’s lawyers who asked not to be identified, adding: “The gallows is ready.”