Death penalty for Saddam Hussein
 

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been convicted of crimes against humanity by a Baghdad court and sentenced to death by hanging.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/6117910.stm

Might happen in 30 days!

just reading that, his bro and some others got the same too.

So am I right he cant appeal cause thats the Iraqi system?

ough....

i don't think he should be killed.

he should be held in a glass box on a public place where he has to live like an animal

By putting him to death it will only inflame people. He has many suporters.

The question should be, should any leader be tried? I mean most are resposible for peoples death inc out priminister and bush.

The USSR started off by killing its roal family, which is still today I belive most russians regret.

Before the war he was promised that he would be alowed to leave, and no war crimes would be against him.

Instead they gave him this cangaroo court.

The reason for the court was to make bush look good.

No ask yourself would any other world leader now feel safe? I mean if your running a country and USA is upset with you, your going to be less likly to co orperate, and more likly to buy nukes to defend yourself.

Its no different with WW2. In that the CIA pulled all the german sietists out and gave them jobs in the USA. They only put on trial those who they did not want. I mean all the human experiments done during that war and now with america.

As I say I think this is going to create more problems, and more unrest.

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been convicted of crimes against humanity by a Baghdad court and sentenced to death by hanging.
He was found guilty over his role in the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail in 1982.

His half brother Barzan al-Tikriti was also sentenced to death, as was Iraq's former chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bander

Former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan got life in jail and three others received 15 year prison terms.

Another co-defendant, Baath party official Mohammed Azawi Ali, was acquitted.

When called to court, Saddam Hussein, dressed in his usual dark suit and white shirt and carrying a Koran, walked to his customary seat and sat down.

Judge Rauf Abdel Rahman ordered Saddam Hussein to stand while he read out the verdict, but the former president defiantly refused to do so and had to be moved from his seat by court attendants.

As the judge began reading the death sentence Saddam Hussein shouted out "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Greatest) and "Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!"

The former leader looked shocked and furious as the sentence was passed, and continued to shout, denouncing the court, the judge and the US-led occupation force in Iraq.

But the BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson said that after his tirade, as he was led away from the courtroom, Saddam Hussein seemed to have a small smile on his face.

"It was as if he was thinking 'I've come here and done what I intended to do'," our correspondent said.

Celebratory gunfire

Shortly after the verdict was announced celebratory gunfire could be heard across Baghdad.

The whole city of six million people has been placed under a 12-hour daytime curfew that bans all vehicle and pedestrian traffic amid fears of violence from Saddam Hussein's Sunni Arab supporters.

The government cancelled all army leave and the city's civilian airport has been closed.

Three nearby provinces, including Salahuddin, which contains Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, are also under curfew.

Almost three years since Saddam Hussein was captured, soaring sectarian violence has brought Iraq to the brink of civil war.

Few Iraqis think the trial verdict will ease conflict, the BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad says.

Even those Iraqis who want to see their former leader dead do not believe his execution would make things any better, our correspondent says.

'Victors' justice'

Many critics have dismissed the trial as a form of victors' justice, given the close attention the US has paid to it.

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein have also accused the government of interfering in the proceedings - a complaint backed by US group Human Rights Watch.

And the former leader's lawyers have attacked the timing of the planned verdict, which comes days before the US votes in mid-term elections.

US President George W Bush's Republican Party is at risk of losing control of Congress in part because of voter dissatisfaction over its handling of the Iraq conflict. In a televised speech on Saturday, Nouri Maliki, Iraq's Shia Arab prime minister, said he hoped Saddam Hussein would get "what he deserves" for "crimes against the Iraqi people".

Ahead of the verdict Mr Maliki called for calm, saying that Iraqis should mark it in a way that "does not risk their lives".

seems rather inhumane, what did he ever do to you?

I say death to him and anybody that don't like the USA! This sends a good message to the people of the world! If you want to fuck with the USA we will take your land and kill your leader.

so hows the whiskey?

So thats death to most of the world then???

inprisionating him is more inhuman then killing?

It may not even be him.

He had plenty of body doubles anyway. The chap they have may simply be a body double.

the whole glass box idea seems a bit much.

there are thousands of people in the world who have done more evil than he, we'd quickly run out of glass boxes :(

good idea....

Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants will be given the right to appeal, but that is expected to last a few weeks and to end in failure for the defendants.

thousands of people who killed thousands of people ?


you must be kidding.

i can't wait till the video hits the internet...

booya youtube...

Saddam = Well hung

:1orglaugh

i thought that he will be given freedom....

Death penalty is not a penalty.

ah k - so an appeal thats pretty much settled already

offtopic: Ive ICQ/mailed bout the script

that nigga gonna hang!

Ah yes.. have you heard of a place called Congo? or Rwanda? Sudan? Millions of people have died in these conflict zones..

"He not gonna hang...no siree!"

http://www.projo.com/sharedcontent/i...0103saddam.jpg

Well decerved! :)

I heard he was given a considerable time to file an appeal. I just don't think it still helps though.

Well played Saddam. Well played.

that is sucks! they shoult let him alive to fell the bad life from prison.
This is too easy I think....

I think he sholdn't be killed.

His trial was realy fair too. He needed to have some of his lawyers killed.

An eye for an eye only makes the world blind

thats how the romans did it back in the day!

That mofo got what he deserved.

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"It is all lies! Saddam's death will be staged and he will
be frequently spotted with Jim Morrison, Elvis and Tupac
for many years to come. I assure you it is all a LIE!"