Saddam Hussein to be Executed within 30 days

[flicknn]

7 pm he is dead already


al arabiya tv network is reporting that....

[Vicious Wishes]

It's done

[Verse Chorus Verse]

Well, that's the end of an era.

[Cooker]

Good!!!
 
 Now its time for the fall out.

[flicknn]

Good!!!
 
 Now its time for the fall out.

what fallout , car bombings , masssive kidnappings , and executions ?

this will cause nothing more or new to whats already goingon over there

[sic.]

Killing the snake won't remove the snakebite.

[Malcolm]

 Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein executed
POSTED: 11:07 p.m. EST, December 29, 2006
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? NEW: Official: "Saddam's body is in front me. It's over."
? NEW: Witnesses report people "dancing around the body"
? Hussein lawyers lost last-minute appeal in U.S. court
? No details on where execution took place
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, a witness said.

"Saddam's body is in front me," said an official in the prime minister's office when CNN telephoned. "It's over."

In the background, Shiite chanting could be heard. When asked about the chanting, the official said "These are employees of the prime minister's office and government chanting in celebration."

The witness reported that celebrations broke out after Hussein was dead, and that there was "dancing around the body."

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not attend the execution, according to an adviser to the prime minister who was interviewed on state television.

The execution was videotaped and photographed, state television reported, and those images will be distributed to the media.

Al-Arabiya television network reported that Barzan Hassan, Hussein's half-brother, and Awad Bandar, former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were hanged after Hussein. All three were convicted of killings in the Iraqi town of Dujail nearly 25 years ago.

Earlier, Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld the former dictator's death sentence, and an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki each confirmed the paperwork needed for Hussein's execution had been prepared late Friday.

At the same time, a U.S. district judge refused a request to stay the execution.

Attorney Nicholas Gilman said in an application for a restraining order, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, that a stay would allow Hussein "to be informed of his rights and take whatever action he can and may wish to pursue."

Haddad had called Gilman's filing "rubbish," and said, "It will not delay carrying out the sentence," which he called "final."

Haddad wouldn't disclose the location of the execution and said it wouldn't be broadcast live on TV because of human rights issues.

Throughout the day, there were conflicting reports about who had custody of Hussein. Giovanni di Stefano, one of Hussein's defense attorneys, told CNN the U.S. military officially informed him that the former Iraqi dictator had been transferred to Iraqi but that the move in U.S. court could have meant that Hussein was back in U.S. custody.

There had been speculation that Hussein would be executed before Eid Al-Adha -- a holiday period that means Feast of the Sacrifice, celebrated by Muslims around the world at the climax of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The law does not permit executions to be carried out during religious holidays.

Eid began Saturday for Sunnis and Sunday for Shiites and lasts for four days. Hussein is a Sunni Muslim.

[Jim Bob]

[Robman?]

what are you talking about , there is already bloodshed and violence, this won't hurt it or make it better .But the Iraqi people feel this is Law and justice for them

I don't think you realize the situation here

[freedom78]

That's fucked up.

[Axlfreek]

i hope they taped it so i can watch it on youtube.

[Dr. Blutarsky]

Anyone who kills 1 million of their own people is going to have it catch up to them sooner or later. That day was today for Saddam.

[Robman?]

i hope they taped it so i can watch it on youtube.

it was recorded, and is supposedly to be released to the press. There are some that say its a human rights violation though. 

[cotis]

Pictures are supposed to be released soon, atleast thats what CNN says.

[The Dog]

So Saddam is dead....great.

But here we are, 6 years later, and Osama is still out there.

This news means nothing to me to be honest.

[Bud Fox]

The man needed to be hung, but the way we went about it was phony, and no one is buying the bullshit story that "the Iraqi government" hung him. It will be followed by more bullshit on how "the Iraqi people" hung him. What really happened is a US Shiite puppet government hung one of the top Sunnis. They could have made it work if he was judged by an international court, but they did not - instead we hung him the way colonial powers hang rebels. We have done nothing but create a martyr. Get ready for more blood and guts.

[sic.]

Fox News has a strange idea about good taste.

Note: Parental guidance suggested.

[Drew]

judged by an international court

An international court would've just made the media's day and even more bullshit. No thanks. Not with Saddam.

Saddam would have still been made a martyr whatever court judged him anyways.

[Bud Fox]

judged by an international court

An international court would've just made the media's day and even more bullshit. No thanks. Not with Saddam.

Saddam would have still been made a martyr whatever court judged him anyways.

Why should we listen to those who led us into this fiasco?

Bud Fox bet you thought we would be greeted as ?liberators? too.

The war was lost because people like you did not understand the makeup of that region. You played right into their hands and continue to feed their propaganda machine via your foolishness and hubris. Removing Saddam was an incredibly stupid idea, putting him on trial in front of a bogus Iraqi "government" was even more stupid than that. Get ready for more blowback.

[Mauve_All]

Do you see any difference?