Hussein is said to be executed..Follow

Yes. Al-Jazeera and Al-Hurra (US-funded satellite channel in Arabic) have reported it. It seems to be taking place as I post this. 6 am Baghdad time.

Lets see how his death will be politically used for a march of victory. I hope his ending at least signals the start of a new dawn for his people (although the reality of the situation in Iraq isn't very promising).

/mourn tigerclaw

Think this will spawn some ******** ruining New Year somewhere in America? Hope not, but seems like someone would be pissed.

Edited, Dec 29th 2006 10:11pm by laviont

Dang they don't mess about eh. Marched him straight from his appeal to his hanging. Nice.

You see, we can learn a thing or two from those A-rabs. Give 'em a speedy trial, then stretch their neck shortly after. Quick-quick-quick. All told, I bet the whole she-bang cost less than $5,000. Who says capital punishment has to be costly?

Totem

If that were anyone but you, joph, I wouldn't have seen the sarcasm.

Do USA & UK get all their money back now?

My inlaws !

DOES your number of 100,000 include the number of iraq's killed by saddam? or should we move that number to 1,000,000's if iraq's dead

Now they are.

Edit: And they've got a vid too! But they only put on the noose in the video. No drop.

Edited, Dec 30th 2006 4:24pm by Matjlav

I told him he should've hired Michael Richards as his lawyer.

Needless to say, A-rabs make horrrrible cameramen. After foisting this piece of crap off on the world, he shoulda been hanged himself.

Look, stupid random_A-rab, if you are gonna record something so the rest of your Shiite buddies have something to ********** to, the take the time to get it right. Don't film your feet. Do hold the camera steady. Don't cut the recording at the money shot. Do have a set of balls and proudly and publically proclaim who you are so the Sunnis know who to car bomb next. Did you really think they wouldn't deduce who it was that was standing there screaming, "Allah-ahkbars!" and not figure out you were the dude capturing this moment in all its shakey and badly recorded glory?

No wonder despite these people's best efforts they only managed to stake claim to an incredibly large sandbox. Worthless.

Totem

I feel sympathy for anyone who is premedativly placed on a pedestal and executed.
Regardless of circumstances.


I shall not declare that taking a life must always be unjustifiable...
If I found out someone killed someone I loved, I'd be hellbent.

But for this, I am forced to say that it is negative.
I understand that he did kill people's loved ones... but from where I am it is as Bodhi said; a sad event in a series of sad events.


Things like this bring out the worst in people.. always have. It's like a ritual that the human race must always replay. From public religious sacrifices to the guillotine. Now the internet fills in that void once again as everyone lines up in the virtual town square to throw their tomatoes and shout their hate as they pray to God that they will get to catch a glimpse of the body struggling and dangling mangled.

not very healthy



Edited, Jan 2nd 2007 4:12pm by Kelvyquayo