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[mamaomao]

Saddam Hussein executed: Iraqi state TV
Last Updated: Friday, December 29, 2006 | 10:40 PM ET
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/29/saddam-dead.html


Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been hanged, according to s tate-run Iraqiya television.

The report gave no furthers, but Arab television stations Al-Hurra and Al-Arabiya reported Saddam was hanged around 6 a.m. local time Saturday (10 p.m. ET Friday) in Baghdad's Green Zone.

But there has been no official confirmation from either the Iraqi or U.S. governments.

Also hanged were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, according to the reports.

Saddam, who was captured in December 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, was convicted in early November of committing crimes against humanity in the slaughter of 148 Shia Muslims in the northern city of Dujail in 1982.

During his trial, Saddam requested he be executed by firing squad "as a military man" and not by hanging, which he said would be a fate befitting "a common criminal."


His lawyers filed documents in a U.S. court 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.

But the appeal was denied late Friday.

The attorneys argued that because Saddam also faced a civil lawsuit in Washington, he had rights as a civil defendant that would be violated if he were executed.

The Pentagon said U.S. forces in Iraq were on high alert in anticipation of any violence following the execution of Saddam, whose brutal rule of the country spanned 24 years.


More to come

With files from the Associated Press

窃钩者盗，窃国者侯。
一个国家执法，却象做贼一样，可笑可怜。

 

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Thanks for posting this breaking news.

 

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[mds]

这是又一个首开的先例，不知是好是坏。但都是美国带头首开！

以后的世界，任何一个国家都可以效法美国，对看不上眼或有利益冲突的国家元首展开“斩首行动”；

以后的世界，任何一个国家都可以效法美国，对看不上眼或有利益冲突的国家以错误的情报为由进行军事占领，并对被占国家元首施行绞刑；

上帝保佑美国永远是世界上最强大的国家！

上帝保佑美国总统！

 

[mamaomao]

Saddam Hussein executed
Last Updated: Saturday, December 30, 2006 | 12:35 AM ET
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/29/saddam-dead.html


U.S. President George W. Bush called the hanging of Saddam Hussein "the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime," but acknowledged his execution will not stop the daily killings engulfing Iraq.

This video image released by Iraqi state television shows guards placing a noose around Saddam Hussein's neck moments before his execution.This video image released by Iraqi state television shows guards placing a noose around Saddam Hussein's neck moments before his execution.
(Associated Press/Iraqi TV)

"Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain, and defend itself," Bush said late Friday in a statement from his Texas ranch.

Saddam, who ruled Iraq with an iron grip for almost 25 years, was hanged in Baghdad around 6 a.m. local time Saturday (10 p.m. ET Friday) in Baghdad's Green Zone, according to state-run Iraqiya television.

"Criminal Saddam was hanged to death," the report said. The station played patriotic music and showed images of national monuments and other landmarks.

The station also quoted Iraqi security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie as saying Saddam "totally surrendered" and did not resist before being led to the gallows.

He said a judge read the sentence to Saddam, who was taken in handcuffs to the execution room, where he stood while photographs and video footage were taken.
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"He did not ask for anything; He was carrying a Qur'an and said: 'I want this Qur'an to be given to this person,' a man he called Bander," al-Rubaie said, adding he did not know who Bander was.

Official word of Saddam's death did not come out immediately, but Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abawi told the BBC early Saturday the execution had been carried out.

Saddam Hussein appears in court while listening to the prosecution during the Anfal genocide trial in Baghdad on Dec. 21.Saddam Hussein appears in court while listening to the prosecution during the Anfal genocide trial in Baghdad on Dec. 21.
(Associated Press)

Arab media showed images of jubilant Iraqis waving flags and dancing in the pre-dawn streets of Baghdad.

Also hanged were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, according to the reports. However, three officials said only Saddam was executed.


Appeal denied

Saddam, who was captured in December 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, was convicted in early November of committing crimes against humanity in the slaughter of 148 Shia Muslims in the northern city of Dujail in 1982.

During his trial, the 69-year-old Saddam requested he be executed by firing squad "as a military man" and not by hanging, which he said would be a fate befitting "a common criminal."

His lawyers filed documents in a U.S. court Friday afternoon asking for an emergency restraining order aimed at stopping the U.S. government from relinquishing custody of Hussein to Iraqi officials.

But the appeal was denied late Friday.

The attorneys argued that because Saddam also faced a civil lawsuit in Washington, he had rights as a civil defendant that would be violated if he were executed.

The Pentagon said U.S. forces in Iraq were on high alert in anticipation of any violence following the execution of Saddam, whose brutal rule of the country spanned 24 years.
Execution comes amid bloody month

The execution comes as the U.S. military announced the deaths of three more soldiers in Iraq, raising this month's death toll to 106, which is the highest this year.

Those attending the execution included a Muslim cleric, lawmakers, senior officials and relatives of victims of Saddam's rule, an Iraqi government official told the Associated Press.

During a meeting Friday with families of people who died during Saddam's rule, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said opposing or delaying Saddam's execution would be an insult to his victims.

There was also speculation that the execution would be delayed by the religious holiday of Eid, which starts on Sunday for Sunni Muslims in Iraq. The Iraqi constitution states that people cannot be executed on state-recognized religious holidays.



Grim end

The 69-year-old son of peasant farmers began his reign over Iraq in 1979 and soon plunged his country into a devastating eight-year war with neighbouring Iran, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides.

The ruthless and flamboyant Saddam developed his mythology into a cult of personality and used his secret police to crush any opposition through torture and executions. He ordered the use of chemical weapons to crush a rebellion by minority Kurds in the north of the country.

He ordered the construction of dozens of lavish palaces around the country and the erection of countless statues and murals glorifying his visage.

In August 1990, Saddam and his army invaded Kuwait as a result of a long-standing territorial dispute, proclaiming it Iraq's 19th province. He defied UN orders to retreat from the tiny country, which resulted in the Persian Gulf War with U.S.-led troops launching a relentless air offensive on Baghdad in January 1991.

The six-week war proved disastrous for Iraq. UN terms imposed strict conditions on the country, including the destruction of all stockpiles of weapons.

His sparring with UN weapons inspectors and three U.S. presidents frustrated the world community for more than a decade until his ouster.

With files from the Associated Press

 

[northernwolf]

行刑的人看上去比老萨还恐惧。都带上黑面罩。
老萨是老美培养，利用，现在又吊死的一条疯狗。
不过老美和老萨都没落下好名声。

 

[northernwolf]

这件事是中国完全可以效仿的。等拿下台湾以后，也翻一翻哪儿死人了。
比方说那个两颗子弹的嫌疑人不明之死，还有其它的旧账。
然后扶持一个傀儡政权，把陈ＳＢ，李ＳＢ给吊了。
尤其这时中国内部事务，更加名正言顺。

 

[Emperor]

看了电视，好像恐怖分子绑架和吊死人质.

 

[contractor]

某些人如丧考妣。可能是担心自己的主子也有如此下场。

 

[northernwolf]

最初由 contractor 发布
某些人如丧考妣。可能是担心自己的主子也有如此下场。

你是说你自己吗？你现在的地位和老萨刚出道时是一样的。
背后靠的都是同一个主子。
对别人，乐不得看几条疯狗打架呢。

 

[contractor]

果然跳出来了。

还是那句话: 如丧考妣。

慌什么呀?

 

[如假包换的马甲]

Activists condemn Saddam hanging

Saddam Hussein was hanged in northern Baghdad on Saturday
British human rights activists have spoken out against the death penalty after former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad.
Malcolm Smart, of Amnesty International, said the death penalty "in all cases was a violation of the right to life".

Human Rights Watch's Tom Porteous said justice had "suffered a cruel blow" because of the "inhumane punishment".

Capital punishment in the UK was suspended indefinitely in 1969.

It is even more worrying that in this case the execution appeared a foregone conclusion once the original verdict was pronounced

Malcolm Smart
Amnesty International


Saddam 'held to account'
Iraqi Kurds react to execution
World views on death penalty

Mr Smart said the death penalty was "the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment".

"It is even more worrying that in this case the execution appeared a foregone conclusion once the original verdict was pronounced," he added.

Saddam Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity.

Mr Porteous, the London director of Human Rights Watch, told BBC News: "The very important thing to say is that this is a day when justice has really suffered a cruel blow.

"This is an inhuman punishment - a hasty punishment - which comes after a deeply flawed trial and after an even more flawed appeals process."

'Shed tears'

Manzoor Moghal, chairman of the Federation of Muslim Organisations in the UK said two wrongs did not make a right.

Saddam was brutal, dictatorial and unjust but that does not give his executors the right to be slightly less brutal, slightly less dictatorial and not quite as unjust

Federation of Muslim Organisations

"Nobody must shed tears for Saddam Hussein as a person but they must shed tears for what has now happened to Iraq as a country and for its people," he said.

"Saddam was brutal, dictatorial and unjust but that does not give his executors the right to be slightly less brutal, slightly less dictatorial and not quite as unjust."

And Dashty Jamal, of the UK-based International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, said the organisation was "against the death penalty anywhere else in the world".

A6 murder

In 1969, Parliament voted to suspend the death penalty indefinitely.

Notorious killer James Hanratty, 25, was one of the last people to be executed before its abolition.

He went to the gallows on 4 April 1962 after he was convicted of the notorious A6 murder in Bedfordshire in which scientist Michael Gregsten, 36, was shot dead.

A mandatory life sentence was introduced in place of the death penalty.

Repeated calls for its return have been consistently rejected.


James Hanratty was hanged after his conviction for the A6 murder

In 2002, Tory former Home Office minister Ann Widdecombe - then MP for Maidstone and the Weald MP - said the death penalty should be "available" to the UK justice system for the most heinous of crimes.

She was speaking following the murders of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham, Cambridgeshire.

Last year, former Met Police head Lord Stevens called for the death penalty to be reinstated for those who kill police officers.

Opinion polls have repeatedly suggested that a significant percentage of the UK population was in favour of capital punishment being reintroduced for certain crimes.

A survey carried out by pollsters Mori in January suggested that more than half of the readers of the Sun newspaper were in favour of the death penalty for child killers and terrorists.

But despite these results, the issue of the death penalty has not featured on the political agenda in recent years.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6219799.stm

 

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:47 GMT 22:47 UK

I do not believe in Capital Punishment and think it's horrific that Saddam was executed.

He should obviously have been severely punished, but punishment should be teleological and by killing him it does not give any opportunity for rehabilitation.

No matter how grave a crime, I do not think anyone has the right to sentence someone to death. It is hypocritical and perverse, and sad that so many people do not seem to want to give criminals the chance to realise their wrongdoings.

Grace Crook, Exeter


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:47 GMT 22:47 UK

Saddam Hussein is dead and gone but what the living appears to have forgotten is that the dead has no sorrows.He came to do his part for his people .He was not an angel neither was he a devil.Those who forced him to what he did only history will judge them.

A. Yaw, Northampton


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:46 GMT 22:46 UK

Shame on those responsible for this act of barbarity.

HUH? Shame on the families of the murdered Iraqis who themselves tried and executed Saddam ?
I think that was their business not anyone elses
Are you Iraqi ? If not, then it was not carried out in your name.

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:46 GMT 22:46 UK

Dear BBC.
I do not see that hanging Saddam Hussein ends any dark history. The US and Great Britain are completely implicated in creating a history darker than one I could ever imagine. We have imposed a greater violence, a greater chaos in the Middle East than has ever existed before. I see our collective "conviction" and hanging of Hussein as a gothic horror. Violence begets violence. Toozie

susan anawalt, seattle, United States

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:45 GMT 22:45 UK

I believe that Hussain should have been killed. Why should the iraqi people pay to keep an evil man alive!?!

Daniel, Derby, UK


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:44 GMT 22:44 UK

I love my country but it's full of over weight cry babies.Just like the rest of the world every one here thinks they have the answer.Fact is people die,some earn it and some are victims.Should those who kill the innocent be allowed life?if so what for?If the terrorist were not stopped would they have stopped flying planes into populated building? If Saddam was not stopped would he have stopped killing & oppressing his countrymen? & should the world just stand by & watch?If so when would it stop?

Dallas, Georgia,USA


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:44 GMT 22:44 UK

I dont understand why people of the world cant see the difference in the present burning Iraq with compare to a peaceful time under Saddam. Why America did not noticed the so called Killings when He was there favourite. I think We are Blind and Believe what media shows us. Im ashamed to be part of this world.

Zahid, London


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:34 GMT 22:34 UK

I feel deeply ashamed that this horrific act has been carried out in my name. This death taints us all, and we must ask ourselves who is next on George and Tony's hit-list. Shame on those responsible for this act of barbarity.

matthew pilcher, dorking


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:34 GMT 22:34 UK

A general belief is that:who so ever un-sheaths the sword of tyranny shall die by the same sword.

MK, Anaheim


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:34 GMT 22:34 UK

Why not have him interviewed by the 60 minutes and BBc alikes ,he could have revealed a lot of information specially about where he got his chemical weapons from. He was used and then removed by big power as is the case of most third world dictators.

George Rad, Los Angeles

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:33 GMT 22:33 UK

I've seen some amazing comments! e.g.:

"As barbaric an act as any he carried out himself. We are no better than he."

The punishment Saddam meted out for insulting his person was death in an acid bath. Is hanging as barbaric?

Any claims that Bush or Blair are on the same moral plain as Saddam are mere rhetoric and actually defamatory, in my view. The horror in Iraq today is the number of muslims being killed by muslims. B & B don't want this even if they brought it about.

G Hall, London

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:32 GMT 22:32 UK

No doubt he was very bad and got just what he deserved. In a way I'm suprised that the US & UK allowed this to go ahead because it is a great gamble. Nobody should forget that this is just the current episode in the game for control of the last big oil reserves on the planet. Iran will be next unless Iraq stabilizes. From my research there will only be losers here, all of us, and them more so.

Jim, Stoke-on-Trent


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:31 GMT 22:31 UK

I must admit I was saddened to see the site of an elderly man being executed.

But justice has been done.

The death and destruction in Iraq is horrendous but as a citizen of Britain and Europe, I'm afraid that the price of liberty does not come cheap as we know.

Michael, REDCAR


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:31 GMT 22:31 UK

Saddam Hussein.. recruited, educated, trained, installed, funded, armed and managed by the CIA. do some research.
i can only imagine he didnt read to then end of the script befire signing up

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:06 GMT 22:06 UK

Capital punishment is never the answer but Hussein has paid the ultimate price for all the murders, torturing and misdeeds he has done or caused. It wasn't evil that executed him but was evil that put him in the noose.

Gil Larson, Corona, CA USA


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 22:05 GMT 22:05 UK

This 'sovereign state' concern did not seem to apply in the original invasion.

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:55 GMT 21:55 UK

Who cares? The trial was a waste of time and money. The US soldiers who found him should have shot him on sight.

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:55 GMT 21:55 UK

Anyone notice the irony that the US flag is flying at half-mast on the day Saddam is executed!

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:54 GMT 21:54 UK

The death of Saddam needs to been seen for what it is, the removal of a man who had murdered people because he could. Its time the do gooders saw that the real people of the world want justice for those the kill without a thought.

Malcolm Jones, Lincoln, United Kingdom

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:54 GMT 21:54 UK

Ed Vaughan, how much did the Tory party pay you to write that? What on earth does voting Labour have to do with Sadam's execution. If you're going to comment at least do it freely instead of being a political mouth piece!

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:54 GMT 21:54 UK

If you believe that Saddam received a fair trial through a fair justice system, you need to stop saying Saddam did anything other than kill 148 people in 1982. This is the ONLY thing he was proved to have done and was put to death for THAT and only that. He cannot defend himself for any other alleged crime, and for any fair justice system, he MUST be assumed not guilty.

And before you claim the trial was fair and he deserved the guilty verdict, read the judgment. It's just silly.

colin, new orleans


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:54 GMT 21:54 UK

Over three quarters of a million Iraqi children dead because of the sanctions - now an estimated over six hundred thousand Iraqis dead in the violence following the invasion of Iraq.

The message to the world ? This is what happens to those who are foolish enough to be the friends of America, as Saddam was.

Richard Haut, Nice, France


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:54 GMT 21:54 UK

Saddam's execution should not have been shown on TV and online. Whatever his past, it is the killing of a human being, and that is not a show. Even if he did not respect thousands of lives, his end should not be turned into a spectacle. Killing any man is intrinsically wrong.

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:53 GMT 21:53 UK

What's one more murder after all the deaths Iraq's suffered in the past few years?

First we starved them, then we bombed them and when that didn't work we invaded and killed some more. And today dozens more will die as they did yesterday and as they will tomorrow.

One has to ask why Blair and Bush feel it is so important to kill Iraqi's. One must also remember that Iraq under Saddam was the one Muslim country that Al-Qaeda was to fightened to operate in, Iraq's never bombed us Al-Qaeda has

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:47 GMT 21:47 UK

Saddam was able to keep that region under control. He should have been reappointed leader of Iraq.

Paul, New Bedford, MA, USA


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:46 GMT 21:46 UK

Saddam Hussein definitely deserved what he got. Its good to see for once that justice has been done and that such an evil man has finally been punished for his crimes.

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:46 GMT 21:46 UK

I was against the Hanging of Sadam, as I think it will only heighten tension in the area and cause more Allied casualties. There have already been more Iraqi deaths due to the incident.

What amazes me is the fact that Hussein had millions of dollars in his bank and instead of leaving the Country when he had the chance, he chose to hide in a cave or a similar abode and
was eventually captured.

I must say that he was a brave man knowing what his fate was if he was found guilty. R.I.P.

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:46 GMT 21:46 UK

This execution is an evidence about the difference of civilization between the West and the East.
V Siva, Toronto, Canada

Yep,the Americans keep those waiting for death locked up for years,taking them to the 11th hour and then giving them a stay so they can do it all again another day. It's like a cat kicking a mouse around until it finally kills it. There is nothing civilised about a nation that does nothing to prevent it's citizens all wandering around with guns. Open your eyes !

And that's just the way it is, Nottingham

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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:45 GMT 21:45 UK

I am dissapointed at the decision to hang Saddam, I have and always will be an opponent of capital punishment. I am glad he was tried by the iraqi people, however, a decision not to execute would have shown him the mercy that he denied others and would show that iraq had indeed moved forward. It seems with this execution they may have moved a step backward.

MICHAEL, WOLVERHAMPTON


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Added: Saturday, 30 December, 2006, 21:45 GMT 21:45 UK

Saddam has been brought to justice. When will G W Bush, Tony Blair, and all their idiotic conselors be brought to justice too?

Chuck Jines, Carlsbad, Ca


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[网游在线]

临死之前瞒镇定的,不过在眼中可以看到少许绝望

 

[mamaomao]

BBC录像: 对事实和正义的悲伤的攻击

Ramsey Clark reacts to the execution of Saddam Hussein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNA3t3guG90