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Saddam May Hang In Hours

Updated: 18:30, Friday December 29, 2006


Saddam Hussein will be executed today or tomorrow, an Iraqi judge has said.

There were reports that the US had handed the former dictator had been handed over to Iraqi authorities - but State Department sources denied this.

Iraqi government sources said Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki had signed Saddam's death sentence.

American troops in Iraq are on "high alert" to deal with any outbreak of violence following an announcement of his death.

The former dictator's lawyer said he believed Saddam would be executed tomorrow.

"The Americans called the defence team to pick up his personal belongings," said Najib Naimi, a former Qatar justice minister.

"All these indications show he will probably be executed tomorrow."

However, earlier Iraq's deputy justice minister Bosho Ibrahim said: "This is not true. He is still with the Americans."


Anger at a court ruling The ministry, which is in charge of implementing court rulings, would not execute Saddam before January 26, he said.

But Mr Maliki had insisted there would be no delay in carrying out the death sentence.

"Whoever rejects Saddam's execution would be insulting the martyrs," a statement quoted him as saying.

"After the court upheld the sentence no one can overrule the death sentence against the criminal Saddam."

On Thursday, Saddam's half brothers visited him in his jail cell, Iraqi officials said. The meeting could indicate the deposed leader's execution was approaching.

Although legally in Iraqi custody, US troops have been physically keeping guard over Saddam.

Iraq's highest court on Tuesday rejected Saddam's appeal against his conviction and death sentence for the killing of 148 people who were detained after an attempt to assassinate him in the northern Iraqi city of Dujail in 1982.

The court said the former president should be hanged within 30 days.

Saddam has been kept at Camp Cropper, an American military prison close to Baghdad's airport.

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[Igor Zidane]

Bye then.

[Woollyback]

i don't agree with the death penalty but for him i'm inclined to think oh well, sh1t happens. off you pop, saddam

[Ciggy]

Tra

[dward]

Bye

[A.B.]

[metalhead]

     

As a fellow arab, he deserves to be hanged, committed awful attrocities.

[Lando_Griffin]

Don't let the trap-door hit you on the a*se on your way out, you f*cking psychopathic son of a bitch.

[The Manhattan Project]

He's dead.

It's done.

[woof woof !]

Don't have any sympathy for him but found it slightly ironic that his haging was reported as .

"Just before 6am Iraqi time Saddam Hussein was hung for crimes against humanity"

F'uck can you imagine being woken up before 6 o'clock in the morning to go to a hanging , your own !

heartless b'stards

[CardinalRed]

I'd have preferred him to be kept in a shithole prison for the rest of his life but then again, that'd have cost money so on reflection...... See ya Saddam!

                                                               

[account deleted by request]

video off the noose going around Sadams neck

I thought it was thoughtful of them to put a scarf round his neck to stop the rope chafing him.

[zarababe]

Yes 3 years almost to the day he was caught, and during (and before) Iraq has been annilated, british and american troops are no nearer a pull out having entered as a liberating force, no WMD found, Civil War ensues, over a 1 milion children are dying from malnutrition and diseases such as cholera, are prevalent.

Saddam is dead, but who will be held to account for the annhilation of "I..rak", is this not one of the gravest humanitarian disasters?

Yes removing him was needed, but the destruction of a nation on the back of  the myth of WMD well.. this ain't the end.

Things are gonna get a lot lot worse.

[jkop]

Bye Bye saddam, i was there in 2003 and seen what he had done so feck him !

[Lando_Griffin]

Yes 3 years almost to the day he was caught, and during (and before) Iraq has been annilated, british and american troops are no nearer a pull out having entered as a liberating force, no WMD found, Civil War ensues, over a 1 milion children are dying from malnutrition and diseases such as cholera, are prevalent.

Saddam is dead, but who will be held to account for the annhilation of "I..rak", is this not one of the gravest humanitarian disasters?

Yes removing him was needed, but the destruction of a nation on the back of  the myth of WMD well.. this ain't the end.

Things are gonna get a lot lot worse.

But all he needed to do to avoid the war was allow our lot in to search for them.

This entire situation arose through his inflated sense of self-worth.