[12/29] Saddam is dead.

December 29, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in shambles, 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.''

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

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

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.

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And propo continues his takeover of the hiphop and news sections.

DING-DONG THE CUNT IS DEAD. Burn motherfucka, burn!

Is that too cold? Nah..

Yup, they strung his ass up like they should have done a long time ago, i bet the fuck was shitting all over himself as they put the noose on him.

"There was absolutely no apology or remorse or repentance in the man's eyes," he told Sky News.

"(When) our people took him to the gallows room he wondered what was going on, he looked dazed, (as though) not believing what was going to happen.

"I looked at him and he kept staring at me, and he said 'Don't be afraid, this is the way we will go'.

"He was offered a hood, but he turned it down. He said 'There's no need for that'.

"It was so quick, and totally painless."

Mr al Rubaie had earlier told state-run Iraqiya television: "He did not ask for anything. He was carrying a Koran and said: 'I want this Koran to be given to this person,' a man he called Bander," adding he did not know who Bander was.

"Saddam was treated with respect when he was alive and after his death," he added. "Saddam's execution was 100 percent Iraqi and the American side did not interfere."

Sami al-Askari, political adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, said Saddam struggled when he was taken from his cell in an American military prison, but was composed in his last moments.

He said Saddam was clad completely in black, with a jacket, trousers, hat and shoes, rather than prison garb.

Shortly before the execution, Saddam's hat was removed and Saddam was asked if he wanted to say something, but Mr al Askari said he had not wanted to, though he did recite a Muslim prayer.

"Before the rope was put around his neck, Saddam shouted: 'God is great. The nation will be victorious and Palestine is Arab'."

It has not been revealed where the execution took place, but it is believed it was not held in the fortified Green Zone.

One official said it took place at a facility known to Americans as 'Camp Justice', a former base for Saddam's feared security services and now used regularly for executions by Iraqi's courts.

damn man thats crazy
he's finally dead
i didn't think it was ever gunna happen

i'm surpried nothing more than a car bomb happened in iraq. i was expectinga a backlash. but finally. another chapter of war ends.

They should have thrown his body on the street for the people to drag around and mutilate.

y did they hang them instead of like givin him a shot or electricute him?hangin ppl is so...1700'z.

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Originally Posted by mh bich who els y did they hang them instead of like givin him a shot or electricute him?hangin ppl is so...1700'z.

shooting him would've made him more like a martyr... I think electrocution would've been better than hanging... at least he's dead now...

I dont agree with the death penalty in any form to be honest but if anyone deserved it, it was prolly Saddam

i dont like saddam but i dont like bush either bush should be hanged aswell man i saw the video of him getting executed and fukin the guards were teasing him they should have atleast let him die in peace , bush is no better than saddam

^Saddam got what he needed, but his death will cause more problems

man... that was bullshit how they did it bushie finally got what he wanted....

shits crazy really, if you knew what saddam did to other cats, you would see he got it easy, dude was hung, he used to poke peoples eyes out and disembowl them while keeping them alive, he used to cut peoples fingers off one finger at a time,,, dude was a sadist.

He got what he had coming, but like others have allready said, this is just gonna cause problems, with the sunis and other middle eastern groups

I'm willing to predict we get out of Iraq soon.
Bush finally got his revenge for the bounty put out for his dad.