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| Iraqi president: Saddam should hang "20 times" |
| 2005-09-06 |
| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein has confessed to crimes and should be hanged "20 times," his successor as Iraq's president said on Tuesday while confirming that he will not sign a death warrant himself. "Saddam deserves a death sentence 20 times a day because he tried to assassinate me 20 times," Jalal Talabani said in a lengthy interview on Iraqiya state television, recalling his own days as a Kurdish rebel leader fighting the Baghdad authorities. Saddam had confessed to crimes, he said in answer to a question, though it was not clear what details Talabani had of a legal process that is intended to be separate from Iraqi politics. "There are 100 reasons to sentence Saddam to death," he said, two days after the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government confirmed that the deposed leader will go on trial on October 19, along with several aides, accused of killing 143 Shi'ite villagers after a failed assassination bid at Dujail in 1982. Last week, Iraq hanged the first three criminals to be sentenced to death since Saddam's overthrow by U.S. forces. In that case, too, Talabani refused to sign the warrant but handed responsibility to his Shi'ite vice president, Adel Abdel Mehdi. He explained his stance by saying that as leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan he had once signed up his left-wing party to an international ban on capital punishment. "My not signing does not mean that I will block the decision of the court," Talabani said, while stressing that political pressure would play no part in the judges' decision. Saddam's main lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, complained after meeting his client on Monday that the October 19 trial date had not been agreed through the Special Tribunal set up to try Saddam and his closest associates. "Setting a date for the trial within days, weeks or months is unacceptable because the court alleges that it has 36 tonnes of documents and the defense team cannot come to the trial without studying what the court has of evidence," Dulaimi told Reuters on Monday after he had met Saddam near Baghdad. It seems likely, however, that Saddam will go on trial on October 19. The process, for the killings at Dujail, will therefore start days after a referendum on a new constitution that the U.S.-backed authorities intend should bury his legacy. |
| Posted by:Mrs. Davis |
| #4 I got a better idea. Feed him feet first into a shredder a little bit at a time and let hem heal up between sessions. And that is too good for the son of a bitch |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-09-06 21:50 |
| #3 do you ghost write Ludlum novels? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-09-06 21:26 |
| #2 Why not get all the fun out of killing him once that you would get out of killing him 20 times? Endorphine blockers. A month before his execution, start administering these drugs to him, so that every sensation in his body is agonizing pain that cannot be ignored. In essense, it is like withdrawing from heroin, the bodies' natural pain-control substance deactivated. He would live in astounding agony until the very moment when his neck was snapped by the noose. Utterly drained of energy, every nerve ending screaming in pain. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-06 21:23 |
| #1 Sure ya can, son. Try real hard. Read fast. |
| Posted by: Judge Roy Bean 2005-09-06 21:00 |