Keyword: execution
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The execution of Saddam Hussian has been made available for public viewing at http://larepublicans.com/Saddam.html
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WASHINGTON -- Of the 6 billion people on this earth, not one killed more people than Saddam Hussein. And not just killed, but tortured and mutilated -- doing so often with his own hands and for pleasure. It is quite a distinction to be the pre-eminent monster on the planet. If the death penalty was ever deserved, no one was more richly deserving than Saddam Hussein. For the Iraqi government to have botched both his trial and execution, therefore, and turned monster into victim, is not just a tragedy, but a crime -- against the new Iraq that Americans are...
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's execution has had a mixed reaction in India. While the government expressed its disappointment over his execution, the Left and some sections of the Muslim community accused the US of masterminding the Iraqi leader's killing, and there were the Shiatte population in different Indian towns who expressed jubilation over the hanging. But nowhere, probably not even in Iraq did an ardent supporter of Saddam express his or her loyalty and sorrow over the execution by taking his or her own life. So it was quite surprising that a 15 year old girl from Kolkata's suburbs...
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, today renewed her call for restraint by the Government of Iraq in the execution of sentences of death imposed by the Iraqi High Tribunal. On 28 December 2006, alongside the confirmation of the death sentence of Saddam Hussein, the death sentences of two other co-defendants, Awad Hamad Al-Bandar and Barzan Ibrahim Al-Hassan, were also upheld on appeal. "International law, as it currently stands, only allows the imposition of the death penalty as an exceptional measure within rigorous legal constraints. The concerns that I expressed just days ago with respect to the fairness...
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It's a pinch myself day when the lead news story is about recriminations and regrets that Saddam Hussein, a man who incarnates evil, was not treated more decently at his belated hanging. And the editorial hand-wringing is that this was revenge not justice. As though being nice to someone who put human beings in plastic shredders -- head first -- and boiled even his relatives in oil, would make us more civilized rather than less. Revenge is justice. Saddam should have been drawn and quartered. The best thing about his execution was the presence of Shi'ia muslims taunting him with...
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THE White House today bluntly dismissed the international outcry over the way Saddam Hussein was executed as elevating his "last two minutes" above his brutal, bloody decades in power. "He got justice," spokesman Tony Snow said, amid criticisms of widely seen footage showing Saddam's Shiite captors mocking him during his last minutes alive and hailing an Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who leads a major militia. "There seems to be a lot of concern about the last two minutes of Saddam Hussein's life and less about the first 69 (years), in which he murdered hundreds of thousands of people. That's why he...
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HITCHENS: "And it might be no bad thing if Americans, especially those who supported the breaking of his death grip on Iraqi society, found ways of conveying their distaste for this rushed and vindictive — and partial — version of a process of reckoning that ought to have been sober, meticulous and untainted." EARTHDWELLER: I admire Hitchen's premise but he is showing the kind of British out of touch elitism that kept Ireland in straits for centuries. In this instance let the American's, who tamed the wild wild west take care of the details of growing a civilized society...
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The Iraqi regime's decision to hang Saddam Hussein was defended by a Church of England bishop yesterday.The Bishop of Lichfield, the Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill, said that anyone who deliberately murdered another human being "immediately forfeited his or her right to life". The bishop said that there were good reasons to oppose the death penalty but Saddam's execution could not be criticised as unjust because he had been afforded a fair trial and an opportunity to appeal. It would "be wrong to encourage Iraqi democracy on the one hand and to interfere with their government and legal system on the...
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SADDAM Hussein went to Hell with the vicious curses of executioners ringing in his ears, including one who snarled: “God damn you”. Dramatic exchanges between the monster and his guards were revealed yesterday after grainy video footage of his final moments was posted on the internet. The Iraqis were so delighted at the despot’s demise that immediately after his death they danced a jig around his body as it dangled from the noose.oining in the outpouring of joy was the masked hangman, guards and even Iraqi officials. But Saddam had been left in no doubt of the contempt in which...
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ADE - Kurt Nimmo - From the caves of Afghanistan, where putative hijackers plotted to violate the very laws of physics on September 11, 2001, to the mercurial figure of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said to be both a mastermind terrorist and a slow-witted dolt verging on retardation, we are spoon-fed one lie, exaggeration, and fairy tale after another, culminating in an incessant stream of deceit many of us no longer seem to even notice. Thus, when the corporate media tells me Saddam was executed, I am inclined to believe they are full of it, simply parroting more lies and fomenting...
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The US authorities in Baghdad faced a dilemma before deciding to fly Saddam’s body to his clan in Tikrit; between Sunni Arabs and his relatives building a monument and a shrine for Sunni pilgrimage from the Arab world, and Shiite or Kurdish attempts to snatch the body and burn it, thereby provoking a fresh cycle of sectarian violence. The burial is planned for Sunday. His last words were: "Palestine is ours." Saddam who ruled Iraq for 35 years was 69. Although US and Iraqi forces were on high alert for sectarian bloodshed, three car bombs in Baghdad killed at least...
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December 30, 2006 Last evening, December 29, at around 7 PM Pacific time, approximately 6 AM in Iraq, Saddam Hussein, the deposed and brutal dictator of Iraq for over a quarter of a century, met his legally mandated fate at the end of a hangman’s noose. Several news reports delve into the details of his last moments and death and comments from prominent leaders and the like about his death. Most commenting seemed to be pleased that Saddam was now dead, with a few using the execution to further their own hate Bush agenda or spew anti-American sentiment. Several comments...
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"We heard his neck snap," Sami Al-Askari, a political ally of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, told the media after the execution." Saddam Hussein Hanged (From Arab News ) BAGHDAD, 30 December 2006 - Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was hanged at dawn for crimes against humanity specifically for his involvement in the Dujail case in which he was charged with genocide. The hanging, which took place at a Justice Ministry facility in northern Baghdad, closes the book on legal proceedings against Saddam who was toppled by a U.S. invasion in 2003. Iraqi State television aired film of Saddam, looking composed...
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SADDAM Hussein is dead. The mighty dictator met a criminal's end on the gallows. The murderer responsible for 1 1/2 million corpses is just a bag of bones. For decades, the world pandered to his fantasies, overlooking his brutality in return for strategic advantages or naked profit. Diplomats, including our own, courted him, while the world's democracies and their competitors vied to sell him arms. Saddam always bluffed - even, fatally, about weapons of mass destruction - but the world declined to call him on his excesses. Massacres went unpunished. His invasions of neighboring states failed to draw serious punishment....
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If you don’t pee yourself laughing at this, then you are a liberal panzy! This one is a Hoot!
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Convicted in a show trial that certainly appeared to have been timed to finish on the eve of last month's US elections, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was hanged in a show execution that just as certainly seems to have been timed to be carried out before the end of the worst year of the Iraq War. Hussein was a bad player. He needed to be held to account. But even bad players deserve fair trials, honest judgments and justly-applied punishments. The former dictator got none of these. snip A niney-seven-page report by Human Rights Watch, issued late last month, details...
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Crawford (Texas), Dec 30: US President George W Bush learned at 6:15 pm on Friday (0545 IST Saturday) that Saddam Hussein would be executed in a few hours but was asleep when the ousted dictator was hanged, a spokesman said. "The President concluded his day knowing that the final phase of bringing Saddam Hussein to justice was underway," said deputy White House press secretary Scott Stanzel. Asked whether that meant Bush was asleep when Saddam and two former members of his regime were hanged in succession in the early morning hours of Baghdad, Stanzel replied, “That's correct." Bush, here on...
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This morning's "Today" show characterized the execution of Saddam Hussein in generally negative terms. According to NBC reporter Richard Engel, reporting from Baghdad: "The Iraqi government is now going to great lengths to say that this execution was carried out with the utmost respect for human rights; that it was a very organized, precise event. However, interviews that we've conducted with witnesses, judges and other people who attended and followed all the proceedings say it was much more emotional and chaotic." Continued Engel: "The execution was primitive and vindictive. " Engel stated that the site of the execution was one...
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Former Iraqi Dictator and Mass Murderer Saddam Hussein has been executed! From My Way News: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in shambles, was taken to the gallows clutching a Quran and hanged Saturday.In Baghdad’s Shiite enclave of Sadr City, people danced in the streets while others fired guns in the air to celebrate the former dictator’s death. The government did not impose a round-the-clock curfew as it did last month when Saddam was...
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The Times December 26, 2006 Four hanged on Christmas Day TOKYO Four prisoners, including two men in their seventies, were hanged on Christmas Day as the Japanese Government ended a 15-month moratorium on the death penalty. The hangings were the first since September 2005, when a convicted murderer was executed. The death penalty is supported widely in Japan and analysts said that the Government wanted to carry out executions in 2006, which would have been the first year without hangings since 1992. The timing of the executions has been condemned by Christians, who makes up 1 per cent of the...
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