BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi television station Al Hurra said Saddam Hussein had been executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Saturday.
The former Iraqi president ousted in April 2003 by a U.S.- led invasion was convicted in November of crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shi'ite villagers from Dujail after a failed assassination bid in 1982.
An appeals court upheld the death penalty on Tuesday. Iraq's government has kept details of its plans to conduct the execution completely secret amid concerns it could spark a violent backlash from his former supporters.
I'm not sure why, but I feel a bit sick at hearing this. I realise it will make a lot of people happy, and probably also generate even more violence from his supporters, but I just find it hard to see how killing the killer makes everything even.scsl said:Yeap, an end of an era...
Especially now that he will never actually be found guilty of anything he was accused of. Way to create a martyr.Julia said:I'm not sure why, but I feel a bit sick at hearing this. I realise it will make a lot of people happy, and probably also generate even more violence from his supporters, but I just find it hard to see how killing the killer makes everything even.
He was hanged because he was found guilty of some genocide in 1982. Otherwise he would have died of old age before he was found guilty of everything he did.chops_a_must said:Especially now that he will never actually be found guilty of anything he was accused of. Way to create a martyr.
About 100 people or so is hardly genocide.Buy low said:He was hanged because he was found guilty of some genocide in 1982. Otherwise he would have died of old age before he was found guilty of everything he did.
I can see where your coming from in a way, However, this guy was a prick that deserved what was coming to him. full stop!Julia said:I'm not sure why, but I feel a bit sick at hearing this. I realise it will make a lot of people happy, and probably also generate even more violence from his supporters, but I just find it hard to see how killing the killer makes everything even.
Not that I have any ideas about what would be better.
Julia
scsl said:Yeap, an end of an era...
chops_a_must said:About 100 people or so is hardly genocide.
Almost on the money, Phoenix.Phoenix said:Shows what the world is coming too. We have mass genocide in Rwanda, Daphor and many other places and nothing is being done, we don't even hear about it on the news.......Yet Saddam makes front page. The only reason he was executed so soon was because Iraq has fallen into civil war and they think this will make the Iraqis think that progress has been made. Yet more Iraqis have died in Iraq since the invasion then under Saddam.
When is Bush standing trial?Phoenix said:Yet more Iraqis have died in Iraq since the invasion then under Saddam.
Agree. It's not as though the death of this former dictator is going to solve all of Iraq's problems. Which is why the news footage of Iraqis in Australia saying "Now we can return to Iraq and not fear for our lives..." really puzzles me.Stan 101 said:Saddam will probably become more powerful in death as a perceived martyr for all those young angry people who will continue to kill. Meanwhile the Iraqi people still live in fear of being shot in the street, or being bombed by their "friends" or by a random suicide bomber.
Kipp said:When is Bush standing trial?
Yes, I'm sure that will be the case. Wait for the whites of their eyes.It's Snake Pliskin said:It seems the locals in Tikrit will be angry.
Don't leave out Howard and Blair!Kipp said:When is Bush standing trial?
I have no idea what happened in 1982, just saying what I heard.chops_a_must said:About 100 people or so is hardly genocide.
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