View Full Version : Saddam has been executed
Chloe O'brien
30-12-2006, 04:59
I do apologise to everyone if I have posted this in the wrong thread. but It has been reproted that Sadam Husan was exucated tonight at 10 pm, 7pm GMT, EST 6 am Ameican time. May god forgive him for his sins if this is true. And if not may the good lord save him, and let him serve his time in jail.
CrazyLea
30-12-2006, 05:14
good about tine. im sorry but this man deserved nothin but death ot life imprisimmen. he was awful.
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at a secure facility in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). A representative of the prime minister and a Sunni Muslim cleric were present.
Footage of him being led to the gallows was later shown on Iraqi state TV.
Two co-defendants, Saddam Hussein's half-brother and a former chief judge, are to be executed at a later date.
All three were sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the 1982 killings of 148 Shias in the town of Dujail.
Holding Koran
A small group of Iraqis witnessed the execution inside a building at an Iraqi compound known by the Americans as Camp Justice, a secure facility in the northern Baghdad suburb of Khadimeya.
They watched as a judge read out the sentence to Saddam Hussein. The former Iraqi leader was carrying a copy of the Koran and asked for it to be given to a friend.
Footage broadcast later on Iraqi state TV showed a subdued Saddam Hussein being led to gallows by a group of masked men.
He was dressed in a white shirt and dark overcoat, rather than prison garb.
Saddam Hussein was led up onto the gallows platform and a dark piece of cloth placed around his neck, followed by the noose.
When the hangman stepped forward to put the hood over his head, Saddam Hussein made it clear he wanted to die without it.
The hanging itself was not broadcast.
The execution procedure took just a few minutes.
Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie, who witnessed the execution, told the BBC that the former leader went to the gallows quietly:
"We took him to the gallows and he was saying some few slogans. He was very, very, very, broken."
from BBC News.
I saw the news when it said that he was going to be excuted tommorrow and well he has. Well after all the things he has done I have to say he deserved and I dont usually agree with being killed should be used as a form of punishment.
Well, I am obviously a lone voice....
Executing Sadam Hussain makes us as bad as he was.
Bad Wolf
30-12-2006, 13:39
Well, I am obviously a lone voice....
Executing Sadam Hussain makes us as bad as he was.
i agree trinity......
there was another way of doing things.....life imprisonment would have been better i feel,
by killing him, they have turned him in to a matyre - there will probebly be many deaths carried out in his name
Pinkbanana
30-12-2006, 13:46
Well, I am obviously a lone voice....
Executing Sadam Hussain makes us as bad as he was.
i agree trinity......
there was another way of doing things.....life imprisonment would have been better i feel,
by killing him, they have turned him in to a matyre - there will probebly be many deaths carried out in his name
I agree, I was initally for him being executed...but think by him dying it wont bring about peace or any resolution. Its pointless. He will just become a martyr (which is what he wanted).
Keeping him in prison for the rest of his days would have been a better solution, I personally think.
This is a hard one isn't it really though. In some ways, he deserved the death penalty for everything that he did and that is the way that things are dealt with over there and in many other countries. Then you also have the side where now he could well be now seen as a matyr and a hero to his followers, but had he spent the rest of his days in prison, would his followers tried to break him out etc? There are so many variables to this I think, and ultimately, it should have been for the Iraqi people to decide his fate, not the US or the UK or any other nation that decided to involve themselves in this whole situation.
im not one for corparal punishment, but in Saddams case i dont think anything else would have worked. I dodnt htink there is justice in killing another human being, but after all the thing saddam has done, i think different rules apply.
samantha nixon
30-12-2006, 18:07
i think its wrong aswell as he has got out the easy way he should have served life in prison then if people said he can come out for "good behaviour" then they should have killed him
Chloe O'brien
30-12-2006, 19:47
Excuting him was wrong. I agree he should have been punished for his barbaric crimes, but he should have been sentance to life in prison. Not excuted an eye for an eye will not make the world a better place.
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, hanged for crimes against humanity on Saturday, has been buried in the village where he was born 69 years ago.
In a sparsely attended ceremony in Awja, in the Tikrit region north of the capital, the former Iraqi leader was laid to rest in a family plot.
His sons Uday and Qusay, killed by US troops in 2003, are also buried there.
New video of his execution posted on the internet, shows he exchanged taunts with onlookers from the gallows.
Just hours after his execution, Saddam Hussein's body was reportedly flown to Awja aboard a US aircraft and handed to clan leaders for burial.
"Saddam Hussein has been buried today at 0400 (0100 GMT) in a place that was constructed during his regime in the centre of Awja," said relative Musa Faraj, quoted by AFP news agency.
The BBC's John Simpson in Baghdad says the Iraqi government will not be worried that Saddam's grave may turn into a place of political pilgrimage.
Ministers here think that his practical influence in Iraq has been entirely finished by his execution, our correspondent says.
The former president was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November over the killings of 148 Shias from the town of Dujail in the 1980s.
Images of Saddam Hussein being taken to the gallows in a Baghdad building his intelligence services once used for executions were broadcast on state TV on Saturday. However the moment of his execution was not shown.
The hanging took place just days after he lost an appeal and hours after he was handed over from US custody.
Saddam Hussein's execution has closed a dark chapter in Iraq's history, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said.
In a statement, the prime minister said: "Justice, in the name of the people, has carried out the death sentence against the criminal Saddam, who faced his fate like all tyrants, frightened and terrified during a hard day which he did not expect."
US President George W Bush hailed the execution as "an important milestone" on the road to building an Iraqi democracy, but warned it would not end the deadly violence there.
A small group of Iraqis - including a representative of the prime minister - witnessed the execution at 0600 (0300GMT) on Saturday in a concrete-lined chamber in Khadimiya.
Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie told the BBC the former leader went to the gallows quietly: "He was saying some few slogans. He was very, very, very, broken."
However, new images of the execution apparently shot on a mobile phone and aired on some Arab television channels and internet sites, show a more defiant Saddam.
Unlike the official Iraqi videotape of his final moments, the new pictures are accompanied by the sound of Saddam Hussein responding to taunts from those present.
One of the onlookers is heard telling the former Iraqi leader that he destroyed Iraq and was going straight to hell.
Saddam Hussein appeared to smile at those taunting him from below the gallows. He said they were not showing manhood.
He is then heard citing verses from the Koran before the trapdoor opened.
As news of Saddam Hussein's demise spread, there were jubilant scenes in the Baghdad Shia stronghold of Sadr City, with people dancing in the streets and sounding their car horns. Similar scenes were witnessed in the Basra and Najaf.
But in Tikrit, where a curfew was imposed, the news sparked protests from supporters. Protests were also reported in Samarra and Ramadi.
Hours after the execution, at least 31 people died when a car bomb exploded at a market in the southern town of Kufa. Angry crowds killed a man who police said got out of the vehicle shortly before the bomb exploded.
Later in the day, at least 37 people died and 76 were injured in at least two blasts in the Hurriya district of Baghdad.
The pictures of him walking down are all over the papers. Its really not very nice image to have on the front page.
It was a double edged sword. Kill him and he comes a martyr. Keep him alive and there's the possibility of him escaping prison. I think it was a foregone conclusion, they couldn't release him because it would cause mayhem. They couldn't inprison him because of the threat of him escaping.
JoJo, he was tried by an Iraqi court with an Iraqi judge. No other nation was involved in the final verdict of the trial.
It said in the paper he was hanged by his own rope in the same place where he ordered the 148 Shia's to be killed. He died straightaway which is a shame cos I would have like him to suffer for a bit.
Did anyone see the footage on the news of him being taken to the gallows and having the noose put around his neck? It wasn't very nice but thankfully it stopped short of the trapdoor opening. He looked a very broken and afraid man.
*funky*monkey*
01-01-2007, 14:06
good about tine. im sorry but this man deserved nothin but death ot life imprisimmen. he was awful.
I agree - its awful but he deserved it!! He killed and harmed so many people!!!:crying:
JoJo, he was tried by an Iraqi court with an Iraqi judge. No other nation was involved in the final verdict of the trial.
I know - that was my point, although it was only after US and UK's involvement in the "War on Terror", to capture him.
I'm glad it was the Iraq's that finally decided on this punishment, its their way of dealing with this kind of thing.
JoJo, he was tried by an Iraqi court with an Iraqi judge. No other nation was involved in the final verdict of the trial.
I know - that was my point, although it was only after US and UK's involvement in the "War on Terror", to capture him.
I'm glad it was the Iraq's that finally decided on this punishment, its their way of dealing with this kind of thing.
Ah right, sorry, my misunderstanding.
Well, I am obviously a lone voice....
Executing Sadam Hussain makes us as bad as he was.
i agree trinity......
there was another way of doing things.....life imprisonment would have been better i feel,
by killing him, they have turned him in to a matyre - there will probebly be many deaths carried out in his name
Well said... He has been described by his people as a matry which is what I guessed would happen. I think, like you, he should have been left to rot in jail and to think about all the crimes he has commited... Killing him did not make him suffer as he has made many suffer over the years
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