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.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

trying to use the US justice system against us, huh..

[bonfire]

Oh bloody hell. Typical of CNN to report crap.

[HIDEK6]

Saturday morning marks the beginning of a very important holiday in the Muslim calendar

Muslims have more holidays than government school teachers do.

And don't get me started on the "holy cities."

The must be thousands of them.

[hispanarepublicana]

Y'all should all tune into the History Channel right now; they're going to highlight local Lubbock hero Freddy Velez and I think maybe have his dad on (at least that's what Mr. HR just told me).

[oceanview]

LOL!

[TexKat]

deathwatch

Deathwatch, did you say deathwatch. Wanna buy one?

[Salem]

"Those pictures should be printed in newspapers across the country tomorrow a.m., to remind people why this execution is happening."

That Saddam Hussein—and his sons before him—have, and will soon be facing, judgment at the hands of the United States military and her allies, is the absolute right thing. That the American people who exhibit a little joy at the halting of even a small amount of evil in this world would be derided is incredible.

Yes, these pictures should be printed and broadcast throughout the mainstream media. Of course, they will not. The degenerate and confused will condemn his hanging, anyway.

I can't take credit for the pictures. They were posted earlier in the thread.

[SevenofNine]

HE DID SE MOM He did that old tape interview

[A Citizen Reporter]

I believe Fox is betting the execution will happen in the 10 PM Eastern time slot. They announced earlier that Greta Van Sustren was planning on a 3 hour live show starting at 10.

I hope Kristin is right, and it's old news by then.

[ohioWfan]

Oh, now THAT's funny!

Guess that lawyer doesn't know that an American judge doesn't have jurisdiction over a trial in another sovereign country.......

(And of course, neither does anyone at CNN.....)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Coug, I'm tellin' ya.. let him lie.

[Old Student]

"food"

I just put a bottle of Martinelli's Sparkling Apple Cider in freeze so it's chilled for the celebration here at the Chaosium. Even my 9-YO daughter thinks we should celebrate.

[John W]

Correction, a half-brother and former chief justice.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . if Hussein gets executed despite a restraining order by a U.S. federal judge, Bush could go to jail for contempt of court and/or be impeached."

Did some judge issue a restraining order? On what authority? American judges are claiming jurisdiction in Iraqi legal procedings?

[CougarGA7]

mmmmm BBQ. I still have a left over Gordito.

[bert]

I think Fox is way behind the curve. We had reports of witnesses on the scene hours ago.

At 6:15 they reported the event would be at 10:00 EST when we knew that the real report was that the execution would take place before 10:00.

All in all, they are not doing well.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

We might be neighbors of sort, but I have yet to see a Santa Fe styled home anywhere in the metroplex. AZ was full of that style...but not Dallas. Just limestone and brick.

[CedarDave]

..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...

Whoa! Didn't realize there would be multiple hangings!

[Howlin]

Is a U.S. court thinking about issuing a restraining order -- and why would they think it could have standing in Iraq?

[Miss Marple]

A US judge put a restraiing order on this? On what basis? The execution is by Iraq, a sovereign country.

This is so stupid that I think the JUDGE should be impeached!