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 Nov 5 2006, 06:23 AM
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QUOTE Saddam Hussein gets death by hanging Sunday, November 5, 2006 (Baghdad): Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by a trial court in Baghdad. Sixty-nine year-old Saddam has been found guilty of the mass murder of 148 Shi'ite villagers after an attempt on his life in the town of Dujail in 1982. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang. His half brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of the former Revolutionary Court, were sentenced to join Saddam on the gallows. Former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan was sentenced to life in prison. The verdicts come nearly three years after US forces located and arrested Saddam who was in hiding. Celebrations after verdict Celebratory gunfire rang out elsewhere in Baghdad, and the people in Sadr City, the capital's Shiite slum, celebrated in the streets. They carried pictures of radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and handed out candy to children. In Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, 1,000 people defied the curfew and carried pictures of the city's favorite son through the streets. Right to appeal Some declared the court a product of the US "occupation forces" and decried the verdict. The big question now is what happens next to Iraq. There are sweeping curfews already in place in Baghdad and elsewhere. Authorities have braced for violent reactions to the verdicts. Saddam and the others do have the right of appeal but the law states that a death sentence should be carried out within 30 days after all appeals are exhausted. What happens next? In Iraqi law, guilty verdicts on murder charges are automatically sent within 10 days to a nine-judge appellate chamber, no matter who the defendant is. It can take as little as 20 days for the appeal to be heard. If a death sentence is upheld, it must be carried out within 30 days, and Iraq's tripartite presidency must sign the execution papers. Execution is by hanging, although Saddam has asked for a firing squad. World reaction The verdict has been welcomed by many across the world, including UK foreign secretary Margaret Beckett. The United States Embassy immediately issued a statement under the name of Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad. "The verdicts demonstrate the commitment of the Iraqi people to hold them (Saddam and his co-defendants) accountable," he said. But many in the Arab world believe Saddam Hussein was overthrown by an illegal invasion. They also regard his trial as illegal. Clashes in Baghdad Soon after the verdict, clashes broke out in north Baghdad's heavily Sunni Azamiyah district where police were battling men with machine guns. Ahead of the verdict, Baghdad was placed under a total curfew. In Saddam's hometown of al-Awja, in the Sunni heartland of Salahaddin, support for the former dictator remains strong. Saddam returns on Tuesday to continue his second trial, for the gas attacks against ethnic Kurds villages in 1988. Case history The Dujail massacre case is the first of several brought against the former Iraqi leader. According to court officials the case was chosen because it was the easiest and quickest case to compile. In October 2005, Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants were led into pens in the centre of the courtroom. The trial was held in an imposing building that once served as the National Command Headquarters of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, in the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital. (With AP inputs) http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?...y=InterNational |
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Nov 5 2006, 06:53 AM
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I am strongly against the death penalty. I feel that even though he has committed a lot of crimes, they don't have the right to take away his life!
Why not just let him rot in prison? |
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Nov 5 2006, 12:11 PM
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Convenient that this happened shortly before the U.S. mid-term elections.
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Nov 5 2006, 12:57 PM
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u beat me to it.
lool. first i was like YES. then i was like... uh oh... this might not be good. |
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Nov 5 2006, 02:30 PM
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QUOTE(mipadi @ Nov 5 2006, 12:11 PM)  Convenient that this happened shortly before the U.S. mid-term elections. You're kidding... right? QUOTE I am strongly against the death penalty. I feel that even though he has committed a lot of crimes, they don't have the right to take away his life! Well he didn't have the right to take away his own peoples lives. But I kinda agree with you. I'd rather him suffer as well but it's probably best to just wipe the bastard off the face of the earth.
Why not just let him rot in prison? |
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Nov 5 2006, 03:05 PM
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QUOTE Why not just let him rot in prison? agreed, they should just let him rot |
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Nov 5 2006, 05:22 PM
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QUOTE(iRock cB @ Nov 5 2006, 2:30 PM) You're kidding... right? I wish I was, but I'm a bit suspicious, considering that Hussein's verdict was supposed to be handed down over a month ago, but was delayed for unspecified reasons. You don't think the Republican Party—which has lot a lot of popular support over the war in Iraq—would attempt to cling to its majority by holding the sentencing of Hussein up as a success just a couple days before a very important election in which the Republican Party is likely to lose a lot of seats in the House and possibly the Senate? |
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Nov 5 2006, 05:36 PM
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Death? I agree with Elaine. They should just let him rot in prison.
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Nov 6 2006, 01:44 AM
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Letting him live out the rest of his life in a prison costs tax dollars. Kill him.
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Nov 6 2006, 01:51 AM
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SADDAM = BANNED
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Nov 6 2006, 09:58 AM
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Pokeball, GO! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,832 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 433,009 |
QUOTE(mipadi @ Nov 5 2006, 5:22 PM) I wish I was, but I'm a bit suspicious, considering that Hussein's verdict was supposed to be handed down over a month ago, but was delayed for unspecified reasons. You don't think the Republican Party—which has lot a lot of popular support over the war in Iraq—would attempt to cling to its majority by holding the sentencing of Hussein up as a success just a couple days before a very important election in which the Republican Party is likely to lose a lot of seats in the House and possibly the Senate? Hmm, you definitely give food for thought. I personally don't think they would pull something like that out of the hat, but at the same time, I wouldn't be surprised. Isn't Saddam appealing this decision anyway? |
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Nov 6 2006, 08:38 PM
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Ha ha someone obviously beat me to posting this.
Yeah, a hanging? 
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Nov 6 2006, 08:39 PM
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QUOTE(mipadi @ Nov 5 2006, 11:11 AM) Convenient that this happened shortly before the U.S. mid-term elections. K, let me just mention this. I AM NOT SAYING THAT I AGREE WITH THIS. But, someone actually asked Tony Snow this, and he replied that you'd have to be smoking rope to even think that. So. yeah. Anyways, now that I have made a completely useless post..I shall end it with saying.. PWNED! |
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Nov 6 2006, 10:50 PM
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Pokeball, GO! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,832 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 433,009 |
Wait... you guys know the trial was held in Iraq, right? Er, wasn't it? It wasn't held here I don't think. Hanging is pretty normal over there. I think we should still do that anyway. Or at least shoot them. Lethal injection is very costly and pretty painless. I don't think he's worth a costly painless death.
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Nov 7 2006, 12:30 AM
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i think its right they just give him the death penalty...
He deserves it. |
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Nov 7 2006, 12:40 AM
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QUOTE(blucheri @ Nov 6 2006, 4:57 AM) u beat me to it. 6 Hours 24 minutes QUOTE(Arjuna Capulong @ Nov 7 2006, 12:38 PM) Ha ha someone obviously beat me to posting this. 49 Hours 15 minutes |
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Nov 8 2006, 05:14 PM
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QUOTE(iRock cB @ Nov 6 2006, 10:50 PM) Wait... you guys know the trial was held in Iraq, right? Er, wasn't it? It wasn't held here I don't think. Hanging is pretty normal over there. I think we should still do that anyway. Or at least shoot them. Lethal injection is very costly and pretty painless. I don't think he's worth a costly painless death. That's what I heard not too long ago too. I'm not sure if that's the case, but it would kind of explain the hanging. |
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Nov 8 2006, 05:17 PM
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^ It says it right in the article.
QUOTE Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by a trial court in Baghdad.
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Nov 8 2006, 05:46 PM
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^ Oh my bad.
Yeah ok I didn't read the article.  I just knew about from word of mouth.
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Nov 8 2006, 06:16 PM
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He deserves it.
That's all. |
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Nov 8 2006, 06:23 PM
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I heard from my teacher the hanging is in Iraq and it will be a public watching. If I were them I would put him through slow and torturous death.
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Nov 8 2006, 07:52 PM
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QUOTE(Wo0yaPo0ya @ Nov 8 2006, 3:16 PM) He deserves it. That's all. You said it. Thank goodness justice has been done. |
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Nov 10 2006, 05:00 PM
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Pokeball, GO! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,832 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 433,009 |
^ Yup. Thank goodness. I know I was happy to hear about it. I kind of hope they show it on the news, but I seriously doubt it.
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Nov 10 2006, 05:05 PM
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You want a hanging broadcast on national TV?
QUOTE(iRock cB @ Nov 6 2006, 9:58 AM) Isn't Saddam appealing this decision anyway? Yeah, but their appeal system is different, I think he only has a month or something like that. At least that's what I heard, I don't know how right that is. But it's not like anyone is going to overturn it.
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Nov 10 2006, 06:31 PM
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Pokeball, GO! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,832 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 433,009 |
^ No. I said I doubted it because of that. I'd like to see it myself though.
Yeah, I heard that too. |
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