there is a video on yahoo... that is the feed from the iraqi tv station that broadcast it... it cuts off right before the "drop."

he was in US military custody until an hour or so after his death... they didnt want him being humiliated before and they didnt want his corpse mutilated after... who would have a problem with that?
i read that the iraqi government still doesnt know what to do with the remains...

 

Not enough pain and agony in hanging. Unless you were to first cuff his hands behind his back, and then hoist him up by the cuff and let him hang there for a few hours, with shoulders broken/seperated. Another favorite technique he used.

 

Man, happened pretty quick. I thought they were giving him 30 days and it happened last nite. Dude didnt even get to see 2007 come. Ah well, how the world is changing...

 

It happened so fast, the guy from Texas is even shocked ;-)

 

I like the cuff idea but i wouldnt wish that on anyone...yea sure

 

good god! 10 minutes?

 

just found the vid.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/12/s...execution.html

 

 

Looks like somebody was wrong....

 

Meh this made him look like somewhat of a martyr now
Anyway, they sentenced him to death that quickly because you cannot be executed after turning 70, for him that was a couple months ahead.

 

Actually, they rushed it because they have a big religious event coming up. Eid, I think it is and they didn't want to do it during that period.


Yeah, WE are, they aren't...

 

eid al adha
most probably
but def. also because of the 70yr old mark

 

The lynching occurred on the Holy Day of Eid, whereby Muslims devote themselves to prayer and forgiveness. This was a huge insult to Mulsims worldwide.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the trial itsself?

A trial so blatantly rigged that even Human Rights Watch, the largest single unit of the US Human Rights industry, had to condemn it as a total travesty.

 

Completely useless dog and pony show.

 

Agreed.

That Saddam was a tyrant is beyond dispute, but what is conveniently forgotten is that most of his crimes were committed when he was a staunch ally of those who now occupy the country.

It was, as he admitted in one of his trial outbursts, the approval of Washington (and the poison gas supplied by West Germany) that gave him the confidence to douse Halabja with chemicals in the midst of the Iran-Iraq war.

He deserved a proper trial at the least.

 

I like the way it was handled. We captured him and handed him over to the Iraqis. They tried him, found him guilty, and carried out a just punishment. And it was all done without years of appeals like he would have gotten if we had tried him.

 

He didn't deserve anything at all. He should have been shot in the head at time of capture and then tossed aside uncerimoniously.

 

Then I suppose you feel the same way about President Bush, as he is responsible for more Iraqis deaths than Saddam....

If Saddam Hussein is guilty of war crimes, then the world must find Bush, Blair and Howard equally guilty. The inaction by the International Criminal Court against Bush, Blair and Howard exposes the double standard when it does not hesitate to prosecute war crimes committed in Dalfur, Rwanda and Kosovo.

The entire trial process was a mockery of justice. Defense counsels were brutally murdered, witnesses threatened and judges removed for being impartial and replaced by puppet judges. Yet, we are told that Iraq was invaded to promote democracy, freedom and justice....

 

I seen a vid of it and wow crazy stuff

 

Well, my feelings on Bush will not be transmitted accross state lines for the NSA to read. I wouldn't quite put him in the same catagory as Sadaam tho.