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Iraq-Jordan
Iraq paper: Saddam to be executed soon
2005-07-25
An Iraqi government newspaper said Saturday that toppled President Saddam Hussein was expected to be sentenced and executed within weeks. The government-financed al-Sabah daily quoted unidentified sources close to a special court hearing Saddam's case that the verdict will be issued in the next three weeks against the former leader and his top former aides.
Did they outsource the proceedings to the Bangladesh Speedy Trial Tribunal?
The sources said they expected the first death penalty against the former regime officials to be handed to Saddam after the special court convicts him on 12 charges of "crimes against humanity." The court last week completed its questioning of Saddam over his role in the alleged killing of 150 residents from al-Dujail by the security forces of his regime after a foiled assassination attempt against Saddam in the area in 1992.
"Guilty! Next case."
"Your honor, next case is 'People of Iraq versus Majid'."
Posted by:Steve

#25  Vote for Der Waffen SS CookieStalinfrau Hillary iff you want to save Saddam and send the great freedomfighter = genocidist unto "exile"!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-07-25 23:39  

#24  Make him ride a pedal bike generator until he charges up enough batteries to fry his ass like a piece of bacon...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2005-07-25 23:13  

#23  Where is Vlad the Impaler when you need him? He could shove a sharpened pole up your ass and out your mouth so that you lived for about three days. Just hanging out.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2005-07-25 23:01  

#22  I'd still prefer the treatment Macduff proposed to Macbeth:

Then yield thee, coward,
And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted upon a pole, and underwrit,
"Here may you see the tyrant."
Posted by: True German Ally   2005-07-25 22:17  

#21  hangin or shoting eh?

ima sujest shoting to deth usin .177 pelets. :)

no law on calliber rite?
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-07-25 21:28  

#20  I hope it is filmed, so future generations can learn from his murderous history and miserable end. Same as the Ceaucescus (anyone have an online video of that?).

Ceaucescu's death was broadcast on Romanian TV as a way of breaking the resistance of the Securitate. Saddam should have been tried and executed a long time ago. They should do the same with high-level terrorists and Baathists they catch. Make them sing then wrap them in pigskin and execute them on tv.

Heads of killed enemy leaders used to be displayed on pikes for a good reason.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever)   2005-07-25 21:21  

#19  Mucky, the best information I have been able to Google so far is that the use of capital punishment was suspended by the US Central Command as Saddam Hussein was ousted from power. However, the interim Iraq government re-instated the death penalty on August 8, 2004 for a limited range of crimes including murder, kidnapping, rape, drug offences and threats to national security. The prescribed method of execution is hanging or shooting (firing squad?).
Posted by: GK   2005-07-25 21:16  

#18  it don't go with week olde chilli
Posted by: half   2005-07-25 19:51  

#17  Champagne goes with everything, Barbara. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-07-25 19:32  

#16  Dictators and oppressors around the world take note: no cushy cell for life at the ICC for Dubya's enemies...
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-07-25 19:07  

#15  Is there A Rantburg Pool for the date of execution? Please make sure you specify the time zone for the pool. (GMT, local, EST, etc.)
Posted by: Penguin   2005-07-25 19:07  

#14  I got a speedy trial for him....moves at about 3300 ft/sec.
Posted by: Mark E.   2005-07-25 18:57  

#13  Pay to view it? I'd pay to do it!
Posted by: Secret Master   2005-07-25 18:47  

#12  It's against my principles to pay extra for TV shows, but I'd be glad to fork over to view this.

Does champagne go with popcorn? ;-p

GREAT idea, Dar!
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-07-25 18:29  

#11  P.S. I vote for it being telivised, heck I would go for pay-per-view.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-07-25 18:28  

#10  Saddam having finally confessed to high crimes
mistemedors and bad taste agreed to cooperate with
his captors.

Agreeing to take the representatives of the new government to the secrent WMD warehouse he/they

Were ambushed by elements of the former regime,
the former President was killed in the crossfire.

3 nuclear cores and one pistol were found.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-25 18:28  

#9  Good, I hope they line up everyone from his gang up against a wall and shoot them with pig tainted bullets.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-07-25 18:28  

#8  This needs to be televised.
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2005-07-25 18:25  

#7  I hope the guy dropping the pellets is Kurdish. Wouldn't that be perfectly ironic.
Posted by: Dar   2005-07-25 16:35  

#6  sounz apropriate
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-07-25 16:35  

#5  I do not want to be morbid, .com, but we better line up a caterer for this event now.

Sammy's demise is overdue. Check out the mass grave website and see what this modern day monster is capable of doing.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-07-25 16:34  

#4  Gas.
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-07-25 16:33  

#3  jest wundrin ifn they haver methed in plase alredy? lethel injekshen? stoning? gas chaimber? gillatine? impaling? teh rak? aneewun know?
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-07-25 16:32  

#2  What PayPerView channel will this be on again?

EP
Posted by: ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding   2005-07-25 16:31  

#1  If true...

Imagine the coming Hue and Cry™. Apologists the world over will go apeshit... and the Sunnis and remaining Ba'athists will have a monumental case of cognitive dissonance not seen since, well, wince Uday and Qusay had their Bonnie & Clyde moment.

Popcorn, anyone?
Posted by: .com   2005-07-25 16:27  

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