Saddam Hussein Executed
Posted by LS.
Pictures have been released of the final moments of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who has been hanged for crimes against humanity. [static.sky.com]
His execution took place around 6am local time (3am GMT).
A video released a few hours later showed documents being checked before showing Saddam being led to the gallows by men wearing balaclavas.
The camera is then lowered to show a noose and a small trap door in the floor surrounded by red railings.
Saddam is shown silently looking down at the floor before he says a few words and steps forward to have the noose placed around his neck.
No further footage of the execution was broadcast, though low-quality pictures did emerge later of Saddam's body wrapped in a white shroud.
Following his death, state-run Iraqiya television said: "Criminal Saddam was hanged to death", and played patriotic music, while showing images of national monuments and other landmarks.
The station also reported that Saddam's half-brother Barzan al Tikriti and Awad al Bander, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were hanged.
However, officials said that only Saddam was hanged and the other two would be executed after this weekend's Islamic religious holiday.
Pictures of Saddam's body were broadcast Saddam's death sentence was carried out in northern Baghdad following hours of confusion over whether he was to be executed or not.
US President George Bush called the execution an "important milestone" for Iraq.
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Saddam had been held to account for some of his crimes.
She added: "The British Government does not support the use of the death penalty, in Iraq or anywhere else. We advocate an end to the death penalty worldwide, regardless of the individual or the crime.
"We have made our position very clear to the Iraqi authorities, but we respect their decision as that of a sovereign nation."
Saddam was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on November 5 after a trial lasting more than a year.
He was found guilty of ordering the murder of 148 people in the village of Dujail following a failed assassination attempt against him in 1982.
The Iraqi government had made it clear it wanted the sentence carried out as quickly as possible, even though Saddam faced a series of other charges.
Saddam was captured in December 2003, nine months after a US-led coalition invaded Iraq.
His lawyers made a last-ditch legal bid in Washington DC to prevent him being handed over to Iraqi authorities for execution. However, the judge turned down the request.
Saddam's daughter Raghd, in Jordan, "is asking that his body be buried in Yemen temporarily until Iraq is liberated and it can be reburied in Iraq."
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His execution took place around 6am local time (3am GMT).
A video released a few hours later showed documents being checked before showing Saddam being led to the gallows by men wearing balaclavas.
The camera is then lowered to show a noose and a small trap door in the floor surrounded by red railings.
Saddam is shown silently looking down at the floor before he says a few words and steps forward to have the noose placed around his neck.
No further footage of the execution was broadcast, though low-quality pictures did emerge later of Saddam's body wrapped in a white shroud.
Following his death, state-run Iraqiya television said: "Criminal Saddam was hanged to death", and played patriotic music, while showing images of national monuments and other landmarks.
The station also reported that Saddam's half-brother Barzan al Tikriti and Awad al Bander, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were hanged.
However, officials said that only Saddam was hanged and the other two would be executed after this weekend's Islamic religious holiday.
Pictures of Saddam's body were broadcast Saddam's death sentence was carried out in northern Baghdad following hours of confusion over whether he was to be executed or not.
US President George Bush called the execution an "important milestone" for Iraq.
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Saddam had been held to account for some of his crimes.
She added: "The British Government does not support the use of the death penalty, in Iraq or anywhere else. We advocate an end to the death penalty worldwide, regardless of the individual or the crime.
"We have made our position very clear to the Iraqi authorities, but we respect their decision as that of a sovereign nation."
Saddam was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on November 5 after a trial lasting more than a year.
He was found guilty of ordering the murder of 148 people in the village of Dujail following a failed assassination attempt against him in 1982.
The Iraqi government had made it clear it wanted the sentence carried out as quickly as possible, even though Saddam faced a series of other charges.
Saddam was captured in December 2003, nine months after a US-led coalition invaded Iraq.
His lawyers made a last-ditch legal bid in Washington DC to prevent him being handed over to Iraqi authorities for execution. However, the judge turned down the request.
Saddam's daughter Raghd, in Jordan, "is asking that his body be buried in Yemen temporarily until Iraq is liberated and it can be reburied in Iraq."
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that's not the way to get ahead in life.
I agree
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/30/2006 02:49PM by anze89.
I agree
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/30/2006 02:49PM by anze89.
Was that a joke?
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> But it's good for the Iraqi people...
Is it? I expect that Saddam supporters will attack their 'enemies', so it will get even worse than already is.
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> But it's good for the Iraqi people...
Is it? I expect that Saddam supporters will attack their 'enemies', so it will get even worse than already is.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/30/2006 03:27PM by anze89.
bloody hell, didn't know it would happen now! thought it would be in a few months or so.
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> If it was, heads will roll.
ROFLMAO
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i heard on the radio that he believes he will die a martyr.
can anyone explain to me how he can even think this? cos i see no way of this happening.
can anyone explain to me how he can even think this? cos i see no way of this happening.
HakkF1 is a muslim I believe - I don't intend this to be a joke, but perhaps he could give us an idea or explanation.
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i read he shouted "God is great" as his last words. he (God) can't be that great if he's about to have his neck broken...
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good hes dead now.
same here Morbid, letting him live many years in jail and suffer is better as a punishment than killing him in a few seconds.
killing him makes him a martyr in the eyes of his supporters, whatever religion he was.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
killing him makes him a martyr in the eyes of his supporters, whatever religion he was.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael
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> I hadn't expected Saddam to be executed that fast.
> But it's good for the Iraqi people, though I don't
> really agree with the death penalty.[i/]
They way of executing him, or execute him at all ??
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/31/2006 01:15AM by IL Dottore.
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> I hadn't expected Saddam to be executed that fast.
> But it's good for the Iraqi people, though I don't
> really agree with the death penalty.[i/]
They way of executing him, or execute him at all ??
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/31/2006 01:15AM by IL Dottore.
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