Saddam Is Gone

[setxsports]

http://www.cnn.com/

[luvhoops34]

Justice is swift in other countries. None of this appeals bs.

[burnet44]

we need this kind of justice

[neck_06]

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[SwtwtrMstngs04]

WOOHOO! GO IRAQI COURT SYSTEM

[Bandera YaYa]

Rot in hell, Saddam...you arrogant ba$tard (pardon my French!)!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

[SintonFan]

Originally posted by Bandera YaYa
Rot in hell, Saddam...you arrogant ba$tard (pardon my French!)!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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You could change the words "French" and "Saddam" and it still looks the same.:D

[Bandera YaYa]

Originally posted by SintonFan
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You could change the words "French" and "Saddam" and it still looks the same.:D That's true!!!! :D

[burnet44]

c ya
wouldnt want to be ya

[olddawggreen]

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2449/saddam2hdit9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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.

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.

President Bush called Saddam's execution "the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime."

State-run Iraqiya television news reported that Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, also were hanged. However, three officials said only Saddam was executed.

"We wanted him to be executed on a special day," National Security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie told state-run Iraqiyah.

Al-Rubaie said Saddam "totally surrendered" and did not resist. He said a judge read the sentence to Saddam, who was taken in handcuffs to the execution room. When he stood in the execution room, photographs and video footage were taken, al-Rubaie said.

"He did not ask for anything. He was carrying a Quran and said: 'I want this Quran to be given to this person,' a man he called Bander," he said. Al-Rubaie said he did not know who Bander was.

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."

[Maroon87]

I'm a little bent out of shape that CNN.com put his picture up there like he was Gerald Ford or something, ya know with his birth and death years. :rolleyes:

[burnet44]

Saddam Hussein Executed by Hanging in Iraq
Friday, December 29, 2006

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Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
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.

• Obituary: Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006

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."

[kaorder1999]

the Southpark writers are going to have fun with this

[kaorder1999]

nm

[kaorder1999]

nm

[Old Tiger]

KA, you had my idea :)

[carter08]

Actual Video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521