Saddam must die in 30 days

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Saddam must die in 30 days
Scores of Iraqis volunteer to be hangman as court rules
BY RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of Iraqis vied for the hangman's job as Iraq's highest court set a 30-day clock ticking yesterday for Saddam Hussein to die. Iraqi officials have already rejected demands for an outdoor public hanging of the 69-year-old toppled dictator at Baghdad's Shaab soccer stadium, where the execution could be viewed by tens of thousands who suffered under his 30-year dictatorship.
But if the procedures for other executions under Iraq's new government are followed, video and still photographs of Saddam's execution would be taken and at some point excerpts would be shown on official Iraqi TV.
Bassam Ridha, an adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has been flooded with hundreds of "letters, e-mails, telephone calls and even mobile text messages from people within Iraq and outside who want to hang him."
The basic message is that "we want to kill him. He killed my family, so we have the right to do it," Ridha said.
In its final ruling, Iraq's highest appeals court affirmed Saddam's death penalty for the killings of 148 Shiites in the central city of Dujail in 1982 after Saddam escaped an assassination attempt.
The sentence "must be implemented within 30 days," Chief Judge Aref Shahin said. "From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation."
Technically, the execution order must now be signed by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Iraq's two vice presidents, but Shahin insisted that the hanging could proceed without their approval.
The appeals court also upheld death sentences for Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and intelligence chief during the Dujail killings, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, which issued the death sentences against the Dujail residents.
Saddam is currently in the dock in a second trial charging him with genocide against the Kurds in 1987-88; that trial could continue even after his execution, Iraqi officials said.
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said that the execution order "marks an important milestone in the Iraqi people's efforts to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law."
Saddam was found hiding with an unfired pistol in a hole in the ground near his home village north of Baghdad in December 2003, eight months after he fled the capital ahead of advancing American troops.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch protested the execution order, charging that Saddam was denied due process and noting that three of his defense lawyers were assassinated.
The execution of the Butcher of Baghdad may also further escalate violence between Saddam's fellow Sunnis and the Shiites he oppressed for so long.
For security reasons, Iraqi officials would not specify where and when Saddam might be executed and who might witness the hanging. Saddam has been held under American guard at a U.S. military base south of Baghdad, and it was unclear whether the U.S. would be involved in the hanging.
The U.S. banned the death penalty after the invasion but it resumed under the interim Iraqi government in September 2005, and more than 60 executions have been carried out.
In the Iraqi method, prisoners are not told of the execution until the day of hanging. They are given a last meal and a cigarette and then are led in orange jumpsuits and a black hood, shackled hand and foot, to the gallows.

And thus the entire communication system in Iraq suddenly gets jammed...

[Boltzmann]

That's democracy, baby!

[Typhoon 01]

I wanna see it too
Maybe i should get a ticket to iraq.

[industrian]

I wonder what European Union officials will say about this.

[JKKDARK]

Indeed, great news

[Gano-Fortoviker]

I thought Saddam was dead already. Wtf!

[cloudsBro]

Whatever happened to those alleged doubles that he used?? His death wont solve anything really, bloodshed and hatred against the West will probably increase in Iraq.

[jonc2006]

they should cryo freeze him like han solo was in star wars and put him up for display. it would be perfect for someones trophy room.

[Coolsvilleman]

Originally Posted by Gano-Fortoviker

I thought Saddam was dead already. Wtf!

ya i thought he was killed awhile ago too. Though personally I think roting in a cell with no books, t.v. or anything, just concrete for the next 40 years would be a better punishment, but whatever.

[Ziegfried]

Hmm.. He is still alive?

[makotech222]

han solo was frozen?! i mustvemissedthat movie

[jonc2006]

yeah man in the end of the 5th one

[Ziegfried]

And defrozen in the beginning of the 6th ^^

[jonc2006]

well i doubt anyone in their right mind would try and unfreeze saddam.

[blueshogun96]

... and if they did, they should die too.

[industrian]

It's all good killing Saddam ... but what about the guys in America, France and the UK who gave Saddam the means in which to carry out his crimes?

Or are we just gonna conveniently forget about that, just like we did with the rich American guys who financed Hitler?

[Seta-San]

i can already see their whining. Death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment. Cry for the poor, poor dictator... boohoo hoo.

Originally Posted by industrian

I wonder what European Union officials will say about this.

[jonc2006]

Originally Posted by industrian

It's all good killing Saddam ... but what about the guys in America, France and the UK who gave Saddam the means in which to carry out his crimes?

Or are we just gonna conveniently forget about that, just like we did with the rich American guys who financed Hitler?

we can cryo freeze them too. hell we should cryo freeze all the terrorist instead of shooting them or bombing them. they would make great additions to historical museums and such, plus they would last forever for all the future generations to laugh at.

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Originally Posted by Seta-San

i can already see their whining. Death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment. Cry for the poor, poor dictator... boohoo hoo.

I am against the death punishment for him, personally I think the death punishment is too light for his crimes, personally I would like to see him locked in solitary confinement for the rest of his life.

[jonc2006]

or cryo frozen like han solo