Saddam To Be Hanged Before Saturday Night

This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Thursday, December 28th, 2006 at 10:21 pm. You can leave a response.

39 Responses to “Saddam To Be Hanged Before Saturday Night”

1. doingwhatican
   December 29th, 2006 at 4:12 am

   When turned over to the Iraqi authorities, I hope our military stays with him right through the drop.

   Extra prayers for our military to remain safe.

   Still, I’d have preferred him being fed into a shredder feet first.

   Out with the old, in with the new. Happy New Year.

2. MAYIBUDIN
   December 29th, 2006 at 9:36 am

   “I urge all the international and legal organizations, the United Nations secretary-general, the Arab League and all the leaders of the world to rapidly prevent the American administration from handing the president to the Iraqi authorities,”

   Sorry pal, the UN General Assembly has just ended and they are on vacation till September 2007. No more time for shit shat. So much to do, celebrating, partying, drinking & toasting. The Arab League is busy with their annual rodeo. Let it go and chances are you will represent another jerk soon enough. There are quite a few of potential clients in the immediate area.

   Lets move on to a bright new year with less casualties for our brave men and women out there.

3. sheehanjihad
   December 29th, 2006 at 10:42 am

   But Saddam is innocent!!!! Yeah, and the snag is going to be on the cover of Cosmo too….touting her new leather restorer face goo. Hang the bastard….and work yer way down the food chain.

4. 1sttofight
   December 29th, 2006 at 11:12 am

   End of a Dictator

   According to an anonymous source, the former President of Iraq will be executed by hanging at 12:00 AM midnight Baghdad-time on Saturday/4:00 PM EST Friday afternoon at an undisclosed location.

   If my source is correct, Saddam Hussein is facing his final sunrise.

   From Confederate Yankee,

   http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/

5. SG
   December 29th, 2006 at 11:32 am

   Reuters is now throwing cold water on NBC’s scoop:

   Saddam lawyers told to pick up his effects

   By Mariam Karouny Fri Dec 29, 4:34 AM ET

   BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein’s lawyers have been asked to pick up his personal effects but Iraq’s Justice Ministry denied it had taken custody of the former president and dismissed a U.S. suggestion he would hang as early as Saturday.

   One defense lawyer, who declined to be identified, said Saddam had been handed over by U.S. forces to Iraqi government custody. U.S. military spokesmen said they had nothing to add to a statement late on Thursday that he was still in their control.

   Asked about comments from the defense lawyer that Saddam had been handed over, Deputy Justice Minister Bosho Ibrahim told Reuters: “This is not true. He is still with the Americans.”

   He also dismissed a remark by a senior U.S. official who said there were plans to send Saddam to the gallows as early as Saturday. The ministry, which is in charge of implementing court rulings, would not execute Saddam before January 26, he said…

   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.....iraq_dc_23

6. rocketman
   December 29th, 2006 at 11:37 am

   1st - your source may be spot on - I heard (only once)this morning that his lawyer was told to pick up Saddams personal effects.

   Get the B&B ready bro

7. Media_man
   December 29th, 2006 at 11:54 am

   We could learn a few things from Iraq’s court system.

   Amen to that. In the U.S. murderers of the most heinous variety live on the taxpayer’s dime for decades and become cult celebrities. Try them and if convicted, give them an appeal. If the appeal fails, then up the long ladder and down the short rope.

8. SG
   December 29th, 2006 at 1:05 pm

   Well, according to the latest reports the Iraqi government has written to “Ask The Imam” to see whether they can execute Saddam during Eid or not.

   So they aren’t as sensible as we had hoped.

   (And we’ll probably be doing the same thing soon enough.)

   Note to self: become a self-appointed Muslim cleric (there are no requirements) and the world will be your oyster.

9. AmericanIPA
   December 29th, 2006 at 1:34 pm

   I’ll believe it when I see Saddam in a similar pose to Uday and Qusay after they met America’s finest. It is the middle east after all, and common sense has no place there.

   IF he is put to death, I hope Ahmadinijad and Kim Jong Il pay close attention. Actually, I really don’t hope they pay close attention. I do hope that we come to our senses and make corpses out of them sooner rather than later.

10. Helena
    December 29th, 2006 at 1:47 pm

    I must say, SG, that’s a wonderful photo.

11. SG
    December 29th, 2006 at 4:29 pm

    This seems to be the latest from the AP:

    Judge: Saddam to be executed by Saturday

    CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA

    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein will be executed no later than Saturday, said an Iraqi judge authorized to attend his hanging. American and Iraqi officials met to set the hour of his death…

    http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/16346322.htm

12. SG
    December 29th, 2006 at 5:03 pm

    So much for Saddam offering himself up as a “sacrificial lamb” (Eid reference) for his nation:

    Saddam Asks U.S. to Block Execution

    December 29, 2006

    WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Saddam Hussein have asked a U.S. judge to block his transfer to the custody of Iraqi officials poised to carry out his execution.

    Hussein’s lawyers filed documents Friday afternoon asking for an emergency restraining order aimed at stopping the U.S. government from relinquishing custody of the condemned former Iraqi leader to Iraqi officials, a spokeswoman for a federal court in Washington D.C. said…

    http://tinyurl.com/y3pfuq

13. suek
    December 29th, 2006 at 5:07 pm

    “According to the international conventions, it is forbidden to hand a prisoner of war to his adversary,”

    “I urge all the international and legal organizations, the United Nations secretary-general, the Arab League and all the leaders of the world to rapidly prevent the American administration from handing the president to the Iraqi authorities,”

    But the Iraqi authorities were elected by the people, so theoretically at least, they represent the people. So…what the defense lawyers are saying is that the people of Iraq are the adversaries of the “president” of Iraq. That seems to present a dilemna.

    Let’s say they’re right. Maybe we should just set him free. After a public announcement, of course. Who would _not_ be his adversary?

14. Gila Monster
    December 29th, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    I would bet the ranch they have filed it in the court of a Clinton or Carter appointee.

    This bastard deserves to die in a manner more hideous than hanging. I know that sounds barbaric but in his case, it is definitely appropriate. This is one time I would invoke sharia law and let the populace of Iraq stone the man to death. At the very least, turn him into a taterin’ pinata’.

15. wardmama4
    December 29th, 2006 at 5:49 pm

    I have the headline for the ‘dead’ Saddam picture -
    WHO’S NEXT?

    The US and Iraq need to make a point. That we are not going to sit around and let petty despots ruin life and living for the peoples of the World.

    I think Ahmadinejad and Kim should be told that they will be taken out, if they do not stop the aggressions, threats and refusal to come to the World Table as co-operating ‘government’ heads. We know they can’t/won’t do it - so let’s take ‘em out.

    I bet the terrorist activity will cease fairly quickly.

16. take_no_prisoners
    December 29th, 2006 at 5:52 pm

    Pop goes the weasel!

17. doingwhatican
    December 29th, 2006 at 6:14 pm

    Who ever thought we’d end up hanging a WMD with a rope?

18. SG
    December 29th, 2006 at 7:03 pm

    The latest from the (despondent) AP:

    Official: Saddam to Be Executed Tonight

    December 29, 2006

    By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA

    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The witnesses to Saddam Hussein’s impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime’s atrocities.

    A top Iraqi official said Saddam will be executed before 10 p.m. EST Friday.

    The Iraqi government readied all the necessary documents, including a “red card” - an execution order introduced during Saddam’s dictatorship. As the hour of his death approached, Saddam received two of his half brothers in his cell on Thursday and was said to have given them his personal belongings and a copy of his will.

    Najeeb al-Nueimi, a member of Saddam’s legal team in Doha, Qatar, said he too requested a final meeting with the deposed Iraqi leader. “His daughter in Amman was crying, she said ‘Take me with you,’” al-Nueimi said late Friday. But he said their request was rejected.

    Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld Saddam’s death sentence, said he was ready to attend the hanging and that all the paperwork was in order, including the red card.

    “Saddam will be executed today or tomorrow,” Haddad said. “All the measures have been done. … There is no reason for delays.”

    As American and Iraqi officials planned to meet in Baghdad to set the hour of his death, Saddam’s lawyers asked a U.S. judge for a stay of execution…

    http://tinyurl.com/y85jx3

19. Gila Monster
    December 29th, 2006 at 7:51 pm

    Looks like I get to keep the ranch.

    http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006620.htm

    The appeal is being heard by Clinton appointee Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.

    She may have some sense, she was appointed by CJ Rehnquist in 2002 to be a Presiding Judge for the FISA court.

20. SG
    December 29th, 2006 at 7:57 pm

    Here’s a real shocker (not):

    Amnesty International condemns Iraqi Appeal Court verdict against Saddam Hussein and co-accused

    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
    PUBLIC STATEMENT

    28 December 2006

    Amnesty International has condemned the Iraqi Appeal Court’s decision on 26 December 2006 to confirm the death sentences on Saddam Hussein and two of his co-accused in the al-Dujail trial and said the court should have ordered a re-trial. The organization said it opposed the death penalty in all circumstances but it was especially egregious when this ultimate punishment is imposed after an unfair trial…

    http://web.amnesty.org/pages/i.....tement-eng

    Remember, Amnesty International is a taxpayer-supported “charity.”

21. SG
    December 29th, 2006 at 8:00 pm

    No American court can (or will) overturn an Iraqi court, GM.

    The lawyers for one of Saddam’s cohorts just tried this tactic. They claimed the Iraqi’s trial was “un-Constitutional.”

    Once he caught his breath after his laughing fit, the Court Of Appeals judge explained to the lawyers that Iraqis are not US citizens.

    U.S. court refuses to spare Iraqi
    http://www.macon.com/mld/macon.....347586.htm

22. SG
    December 29th, 2006 at 8:07 pm

    Here’s what Saddam’s lackeys at Uruknet have posted at this hour:

    Update—Reported right now that Saddam will be executed tonight

    Saddam dies, they executed Iraq before they executed Saddam, the resistance continues, I think that the Iraqi resistance tomorrow can show the world that Al-Hakim, Al-Maliki, Al-Chalabi, and the rest of the gang and everybody sold himself to the Americans will never escape justice.

    Long live Iraq occupation-free
    Long live Iraq, US puppets-free

    http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m29.....1&l=e

23. Gila Monster
    December 29th, 2006 at 8:22 pm

    I wouldn’t think so either SG, but you never know with the “evolving constitutionalists” crowd.

    I wondered if Saddam’s mouthpiece’s were going to try the “he’s a POW” ploy? He was tried by the legal government of Iraq so that BS is likely in the toilet.

24. SG
    December 29th, 2006 at 8:30 pm

    Yeah, I was wondering about the POW tactic, too.

    It has been a popular theme at the Ba’athist Uruknet site I linked to above.

25. SG
    December 29th, 2006 at 8:33 pm

    Latest from Reuters;

    Saddam to hang at dawn: officials

    By Mariam Karouny

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein will hang at dawn on Saturday, Iraqi officials told Reuters, setting a dramatic end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before a U.S. invasion and his conviction for crimes against humanity.

    “They just called to tell me to be ready to attend the hanging at 5:30 a.m. (O230 GMT),” said a court official whose presence is demanded by law. The execution was planned by 6 a.m., he added, although he did not know where it would happen.

    A senior politician in the Shi’ite Muslim majority behind Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he would also attend: “It will take place by 6 a.m.,” Bahaa al-Araji told Reuters…

    http://tinyurl.com/ym732y

26. SG
    December 29th, 2006 at 10:09 pm

    Al Arabia is reporting that Saddam is dead.

27. sheehanjihad
    December 29th, 2006 at 10:20 pm

    The New York Times will be flying their flag at half staff….they dont have an American flag. Saddam is dead…now, lets get the rest.

28. morninggloryseed
    December 30th, 2006 at 3:14 am

    BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century, was taken to the gallows and executed Saturday, Iraqi state-run television reported.

    It was a grim end for the 69-year-old leader who had vexed three U.S. presidents. Despite his ouster, Washington, its allies and the new Iraqi leaders remain mired in a fight to quell a stubborn insurgency by Saddam loyalists and a vicious sectarian conflict.

    Also hanged were Saddam’s half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court. State-run Iraqiya television news announcer said “criminal Saddam was hanged to death and the execution started with criminal Saddam then Barzan then Awad al-Bandar.”

    Mariam al-Rayes, a legal expert and a former member of the Shiite bloc in parliament, told Iraqiya television that the execution “was filmed and God willing it will be shown. There was one camera present, and a doctor was also present there.”

    Al-Rayes, an ally of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, did not attend the execution. She said Al-Maliki did not attend but was represented by an aide.

    The station earlier was airing national songs after the first announcement and had a tag on the screen that read “Saddam’s execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq’s history.”

    The execution came 56 days after a court convicted Saddam and sentenced him to death for his role in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a town where assassins tried to kill the dictator in 1982. Iraq’s highest court rejected Saddam’s appeal Monday and ordered him executed within 30 days.

    A U.S. judge on Friday refused to stop Saddam’s execution, rejecting a last-minute court challenge.

    Al-Maliki had rejected calls that Saddam be spared, telling families of people killed during the dictator’s rule that would be an insult to the victims.

    “Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him, and there will be no review or delay in carrying out the sentence,” al-Maliki’s office quoted him as saying during a meeting with relatives before the hanging.

    The hanging of Saddam, who was ruthless in ordering executions of his opponents, will keep other Iraqis from pursuing justice against the ousted leader.

    At his death, he was in the midst of a second trial, charged with genocide and other crimes for a 1987-88 military crackdown that killed an estimated 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq. Experts said the trial of his co-defendants was likely to continue despite his execution.

    Many people in Iraq’s Shiite majority were eager to see the execution of a man whose Sunni Arab-dominated regime oppressed them and Kurds.

    Before the hanging, a mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Friday called Saddam’s execution “God’s gift to Iraqis.”

    “Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done! He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighboring countries and he is responsible for mass graves. Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam,” said Sheik Sadralddin al-Qubanji, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

    On Thursday, two half brothers visited Saddam in his cell, a member of the former dictator’s defense team, Badee Izzat Aref, told The Associated Press by telephone from the United Arab Emirates. He said the former dictator handed them his personal belongings.

    A senior official at the Iraqi defense ministry said Saddam gave his will to one of his half brothers. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

    In a farewell message to Iraqis posted Wednesday on the Internet, Saddam said he was giving his life for his country as part of the struggle against the U.S. “Here, I offer my soul to God as a sacrifice, and if he wants, he will send it to heaven with the martyrs,” he said.

    One of Saddam’s lawyers, Issam Ghazzawi, said the letter was written by Saddam on Nov. 5, the day he was convicted by an Iraqi tribunal in the Dujail killings.

    The message called on Iraqis to put aside the sectarian hatred that has bloodied their nation for a year and voiced support for the Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency against U.S.-led forces, saying: “Long live jihad and the mujahedeen.”

    Saddam urged Iraqis to rely on God’s help in fighting “against the unjust nations” that ousted his regime.

    Najeeb al-Nauimi, a member of Saddam’s legal team, said U.S. authorities maintained physical custody of Saddam until the execution to prevent him being humiliated publicly or his corpse being mutilated, as has happened to previous Iraqi leaders deposed by force. He said they didn’t want anything to happen to further inflame Sunni Arabs.

    “This is the end of an era in Iraq,” al-Nauimi said from Doha, Qatar. “The Baath regime ruled for 35 years. Saddam was vice president or president of Iraq during those years. For Iraqis, he will be very well remembered. Like a martyr, he died for the sake of his country.”

    Iraq’s death penalty was suspended by the U.S. military after it toppled Saddam in 2003, but the new Iraqi government reinstated it two years later, saying executions would deter criminals.

    Saddam’s own regime used executions and extrajudicial killings as a tool of political repression, both to eliminate real or suspected political opponents and to maintain a reign of terror.

    In the months after he seized power on July 16, 1979, he had hundreds of members of his own party and army officers slain. In 1996, he ordered the slaying of two sons-in-law who had defected to Jordan but returned to Baghdad after receiving guarantees of safety.

    Saddam built Iraq into a one of the Arab world’s most modern societies, but then plunged the country into an eight-year war with neighboring Iran that killed hundreds of thousands of people on both sides and wrecked Iraq’s economy.

    During that war, as part of the wider campaign against Kurds, the Iraqi military used chemical weapons against the Kurdish town of Halabja in northern Iraq, killing an estimated 5,000 civilians.

    The economic troubles from the Iran war led Saddam to invade Kuwait in the summer of 1990, seeking to grab its oil wealth, but a U.S.-led coalition inflicted a stinging defeat on the Iraq army and freed the Kuwaitis.

    U.N. sanctions imposed over the Kuwait invasion remained in place when Saddam failed to cooperate fully in international efforts to ensure his programs for creating weapons of mass destruction had been dismantled. Iraqis, once among the region’s most prosperous, were impoverished.

    The final blow came when U.S.-led troops invaded in March 2003. Saddam’s regime fell quickly, but political, sectarian and criminal violence have created chaos that has undermined efforts to rebuild Iraq’s ruined economy.

    While he wielded a heavy hand to maintain control, Saddam also sought to win public support with a personality cult that pervaded Iraqi society. Thousands of portraits, posters, statues and murals were erected in his honor all over Iraq. His face could be seen on the sides of office buildings, schools, airports and shops and on Iraq’s currency.

29. RightWinger
    December 30th, 2006 at 3:53 am

    The MSM must be in utter disarray this morning. Over on Youtube, somebody posted a 15 second clip from some local newsstation where the news announcer from WESH says, “yada yada yada at 5AM when Saddam is to be assassinated”.

    I also notice above that the AP story could not contain itself, especially by inserting nonsense such as “A U.S. judge on Friday refused to stop Saddam’s execution, rejecting a last-minute court challenge.”

    As if a US Judge could order the execution to be stopped in another country. What I want to know is, if the Judge was based here in the US, who was the buffoon that took the time to file the challenge in court? CAIR? ACLU? Rosie?

    There was also more to the AP story where they couldn’t help but take more pot shots at us, though not unexpected. There was of course this nonsense…..

    “US. troops cheered as news of Saddam’s execution appeared on television at the mess hall at Forward Operating Base Loyalty in eastern Baghdad. But some soldiers expressed doubt that Saddam’s death would be a significant turning point for Iraq.

    “First it was weapons of mass destruction. Then when there were none, it was that we had to find Saddam. We did that, but then it was that we had to put him on trial,” said Spc. Thomas Sheck, 25, of Philadelphia, who is on his second tour in Iraq. “So now, what will be the next story they tell us to keep us over here?” “

    Ted Kennedy is no doubt shaking his vodka martini in anger about now!

30. Kilmeny
    December 30th, 2006 at 7:42 am

    What good news to wake up to. So the New York Times will hail him as a martyr. At least he’s now a dead one.

31. BillK
    December 30th, 2006 at 8:23 am

    Proving the Iraqi judicial system may well function better than the American one.

    If Saddam were tried in America he’d have gotten life without parole, a book deal and a guest hosting gig on CNN, not to mention his weekly newspaper column syndicated by the New York Times.

32. englishqueen01
    December 30th, 2006 at 9:04 am

    If Saddam were tried in America he’d have gotten life without parole, a book deal and a guest hosting gig on CNN, not to mention his weekly newspaper column syndicated by the New York Times.

    And every bleeding heart liberal in Hollywood would be campaigning for his release. He and Mumia could go on tour.

    I’m not “glad” he’s dead, but I am satisified to see that the Iraqi justice system works. It means we are one step closer to getting that nation back on its feet.

33. AmericanIPA
    December 30th, 2006 at 9:06 am

    Congratulations to the Iraqi people (especially the Kurds). I hope this can close a sad chapter and start them on the road to civilization. I’m not real optimistic, since they are arab muslims, to whom opportunity never entices as much as rhetoric, but it COULD happen I guess.

    Congratulations also to the US troops who caught his sorry ass and who continue to fight (with waaaay too many rules of engagement) to make Iraq a better place. I pray that these troops will be able to take the gloves off and win this thing so we can move on to the next bunch of cavemen-with-nukes.

34. CKO1986
    December 30th, 2006 at 10:22 am

    Good riddance to bad rubbish,says I.

35. doingwhatican
    December 30th, 2006 at 10:30 am

    Just as Bette Davis was “rumored” to say upon learning of the death of Joan Crawford….

    “You only speak ‘Good’ of the dead….”

    He’s dead….’Good’.

36. SG
    December 30th, 2006 at 11:06 am

    RW, that quote from Sheck has found its way into 239 news stories — and counting.

    http://tinyurl.com/uqjoy

    I wonder if he even exists.

37. RightWinger
    December 30th, 2006 at 12:03 pm

    Amazing. If he does exist, how long is it before he is standing alongside that traitor of traitors…Mudder Sheehan.

38. doingwhatican
    December 30th, 2006 at 1:05 pm

    Doesn’t everyone else get the same sad, sick feeling that the MSM will mourn more for Saddam than for Gerald Ford?

    How long do you suppose before Hugo Chavez trades his Che Guevara T-Shirt in for one of Saddam?

39. endzonekiller
    January 7th, 2007 at 7:51 am

    Ding Dong the Killer’s Dead, the killer’s dead, the kiler’s dead.
    Ding Dong the fat nasty killer’s DEAD DEAD DEAD!
    F— an A! DEAD!!!

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