Posted on 12/29/2006 7:08:40 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
Edited on 01/08/2007 4:42:06 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Saddam Hussein Executed!!
Saddam Hussein is led into the gallows by his executioners and prepared for his hanging; Saddam's body after his execution
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Photo of Saddam Dead with Noose Still Around Neck
Full Hanging Video(Through the Drop)
Saddam Video of Body after Hanging (New 1-8-07)
The Drop Broke Saddam's neck killing him instantly. At the executions following the Nuremberg Trials others were not so lucky.
THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY--AND OF ALL TIME, PART TWO
"..The executions, in a brightly lighted prison gymnasium where three looming black wooden gallows had been erected, were witnessed by a handful of Allied military officers and eight journalists, one of whom, Kingsbury Smith of International News Service, wrote a famous newspaper article, "The Execution of Nazi War Criminals, 16 October 1946," based on his eyewitness observations. Although Smith discreetly omitted mentioning it, the experienced Army hangman, Master Sgt. John C. Woods, botched the executions. A number of the hanged Nazis died, not quickly from a broken neck as intended, but agonizingly from slow strangulation. Ribbentrop and Sauckel each took 14 minutes to choke to death, while Keitel, whose death was the most painful, struggled for 24 minutes at the end of the rope before expiring..."
Is that for real?
The server is still awfully slow, Ernest....
"CBS is not ready to call the execution of Mr. Hussein."
Sweet!
Sorry to use an inflamatory word like hell. Let me say this, he is in a very dark place, very dark, very remote and very far from the light of God.
Of this, you can take my word for it.
"But, a hanging death like this is a sad commentary on man."
No it isn't. It's justice. Anyway, the hanging death isn't going to be half as bad as the place he will be residing in for eternity. He's frying on hot coals this very minute.
Or debating whether Hitler deserved death after WWII:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3001478
By Toby Harnden in Washington and Graeme Baker
Last Updated: 3:13am GMT 30/12/2006
The Telegraph (UK)
Saddam Hussein was hanged early today for his crimes against humanity. The former dictator of Iraq was hooded, led to the gallows in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, which houses his former presidential palace, before being executed without ceremony in front of Iraqi and American officials.
His fate was sealed yesterday when the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, swept aside wrangling inside the government to sign his death warrant and he was handed over by the Americans to face Iraqi justice.
Saddam, 69, was sentenced to death in November with his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad Ahmed al-Bandar al-Sadun, a Saddam regime judge, for slaughtering 148 Shia Muslims in the village of Dujail in 1982. It is believed his co-accused were also executed this morning.
His execution followed a day of confusion in Baghdad, with members of the government contradicting each other about its timing. But the transfer of Saddam from American to Iraqi custody meant his death was imminent.
A late appeal by his lawyers to a US court not to allow Saddam to be handed over because of a pending civil case in America was in vain. Mr Maliki signed his death sentence after approval from the president, Jalal Talabani, and the justice ministry.
The prime minister told the families of some of Saddam's victims: "Our respect for human rights means we must implement the execution of Saddam and his aides. Those who reject Saddam's execution are undermining the dignity of the martyrs of Iraq. After the endorsement of the court ruling, no one can prevent the execution sentence against Saddam. There will be neither a revision nor a delay in the implementation of the execution."
The hanging was a landmark in Iraq's turbulent history. Saddam, who became president in 1979, was toppled after the US-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003 and captured hiding in a hole eight months later.
In his 15ft by 15ft cell at Camp Cropper, a US military base next to Baghdad international airport, Saddam would have picked up clues that his time was imminent. On Thursday, two of his half brothers visited him and took away some of his meagre belongings.
Khalil al-Dulaimi, his lawyer, claimed that the dictator's death would be a strategic mistake on the part of the American-led allies and the trigger for a sharp rise in violence "and the eruption of a destructive civil war".
Brig Gen Abdel Karim Khalaf, the head of the interior ministry command centre, said Iraqi forces were on high alert. "Certainly, this is a big event, putting into effect the execution of this serial killer. We will take measures proportionate to this event. We will put all our forces on the streets so no lives are jeopardised." Senior US officers were also on a high state of alert.
Iraqi Shia, who were persecuted by Saddam for decades, celebrated his demise.
In the Shia holy city of Najaf, Sheikh Sadralddin al-Qubanji, described Saddam's execution as "God's gift to Iraqis" during his Friday sermon.
"Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done. He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighbouring countries and he is responsible for mass graves. Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam."
Buh Bye Sucker
Dear God in Heaven! Joe Scarborough on MSNBC saying he hopes that Bush isn't hoping for a "bounce" from this because he certainly isn't going to get it.
God help us ALL. And save US from the damn conseravtives like him.
Now load up the body and drop it through the roof of Basher Assad's palace. Message - you're next.
Xipe Totec
Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-29-06 10:13 PM
Response to Original message
2. I bet George feels like smoking a cigarette right now n/t
madrchsod
Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Fri Dec-29-06 10:14 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. no he`s whacking off in the bathroom
if Iraq would break up, there would be a real chance
that Saddam would be an issue, or even return
to power.
won't happen now
If you go to tools..internet options..advanced and unclick "show pictures" it will help..I had to do that on dial up at times.
I'm ashamed the DU'ers are human too. They think more like reptiles or rodentia. I tend to begrudge them the oxygen they consumes.
Saddam is assuming room temperature as we type. And hundreds of thousands of innocents he murdered and their families are going to be able to have closure and peace.
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