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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 04:20 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Updated:2006-12-29 14:30:56
Saddam May Face Execution Within Hours


By LAUREN FRAYER

AP
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Dec. 29) - Saddam Hussein will be executed no later than Saturday, said an Iraqi judge authorized to attend his hanging, and American and Iraqi officials said the deposed president was still in the hands of American guards.

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The physical transfer of Saddam to Iraqi authorities is one of the last steps before his hanging.

"There has been no change in his status," said Tom Casey, the U.S. State Department's deputy spokesman. He said U.S. Embassy officials in Baghdad told him that Saddam remained in American hands.

A senior Iraqi government official said a meeting would be held around 10 p.m. Baghdad time between officials from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office and U.S. officials to set a time for the execution.

Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld Saddam's death sentence, said he was ready to attend the execution.

"All the measures have been done," Haddad said. "There is no reason for delays."

Al-Maliki has signed Saddam's death sentence, the same senior Iraqi official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

"We have agreed with the Americans that the handover will take place only a few minutes before he is executed," the official said.

Saddam's lawyers issued a statement Friday calling on "everybody to do everything to stop this unfair execution." The statement also said the former president had been transferred from U.S. custody, though American and Iraqi officials later denied that. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy.

Al-Maliki said opposing Saddam's execution was an insult to his victims. His office said he made the remarks in a meeting with families of people who died during Saddam's rule.

"Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him, and there will be no review or delay in carrying out the sentence," al-Maliki said.

Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said U.S. forces were on high alert.

"They'll obviously take into account social dimensions that could potentially led to an increase in violence which certainly would include carrying out the sentence of Saddam Hussein," Whitman said.

On Thursday, two half brothers visited Saddam in his cell, a member of the former dictator's defense team, Badee Izzat Aref, told The Associated Press by telephone from the United Arab Emirates. He said the former dictator handed them his personal belongings.

A senior official at the Iraqi defense ministry also confirmed the meeting and said Saddam gave his will to one of his half brothers. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Saddam's lawyers later issued a statement saying the Americans gave permission for his belongings to be retrieved.

An Iraqi appeals court upheld Saddam's death sentence Tuesday 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.

There have been disagreements among Iraqi officials in recent days as to whether Iraqi law dictates the execution must take place within 30 days and whether President Jalal Talabani and his two deputies have to approve it.

In his Friday sermon, a mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf called Saddam's execution "God's gift to Iraqis."

"Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done! He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighboring countries and he is responsible for mass graves. Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam," said Sheik Sadralddin al-Qubanji, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, known as SCIRI, the dominant party in al-Maliki's coalition.

With at least 72 more Iraqis killed Thursday in violence, U.S. officials and Iraqis expressed concern about the potential for even worse bloodshed following Saddam's execution.

On Friday, some 22 bodies bearing signs of torture were found across Baghdad, police said. Ten more were found in Baqouba north of the Iraqi capital, a morgue official said.

A suicide bomber killed nine people near a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad on Friday, police said. A round of mortar shells also slammed into al-Maidan square in central Baghdad, wounding ten people and damaging shops and buildings in the area, police said.

Gunmen killed two employees of an oil company and another civilian in Mosul, northwest of Baghdad. Two civilians and a policeman were fatally shot in separate attacks in Musayyib, about south of the capital, police said.

U.S. troops, meanwhile, killed six people and destroyed a weapons cache in separate raids in Baghdad and northwest of the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said.

One of the raids targeted two buildings in the village of Thar Thar, where U.S. troops found 16 pounds of homemade explosives, two large bombs, a rocket-propelled grenade, suicide vests and multiple batteries, the military said.

Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops also captured 13 suspects and confiscated weapons in a raid on a mosque southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday.

Associated Press writer Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report.

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2006-12-29 14:09:37


The one who says the execution should be carried out and the one who has to do the dirty work will be judged when the time comes.

2 wrongs don't make a right.


I will never carry anyone's blood on my hands ever.


I don't know what higher power is out there but they are watching.


One day we will all know.


Al-Maliki signed the papers. I bet this man didn't even flinch when he decided that the murder will go on.


Yuck. I could never do that ever.

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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 04:42 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can't face this?
Then don't agree with it!!!!


Death by hanging


I feel so sick everytime I think of my father on the floor after they untied him.


This world is such a sick piece of **** .


I can't wait to die and get out of this crap hole.

Shame on those who accept this ******** .


I'm gonna go throw up now.

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jwhop
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posted December 29, 2006 04:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Too bad Saddam's sons decided to fight it out and got their sorry as$es shot off in the process.

It would be nice if they could have been hung right next to Saddam.

They all earned it...many times over.

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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 04:52 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Your words will be judged when the time comes for you.


Someone's watching you.


You are no one to condemn anyone. You sick piece of ****.

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posted December 29, 2006 04:52 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Killing in the name of anything be it murderer OR executor is completely wrong. I don't have a good feeling about what will happen tommorrow. Death is not gonna solve anything and somehow I figure it's an easy out.

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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 04:56 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Leave him alone Inner.


His judgment day will come.


Those words are enough for him to be judged in a bad way.

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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 04:57 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Papa Satan will be waiting for him, Bush, and Saddam.


All the same garbage if you ask me.

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posted December 29, 2006 04:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'll take my chances. Saddam and his sons butchered up to a million Iraqi citizens.

Of course, Saddam took his cue from his idol Stalin..who said..."one death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." Then Stalin proceeded to kill about 60-70 million.

It's just too bad Saddam cannot be given what he so richly deserves. One death for Saddam is not nearly enough.

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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 05:00 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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I'll take my chances. Saddam and his sons butchered up to a million Iraqi citizens.


And you agree with the murder of the civilians by supporting the war that our country has started.


Like I said before. You are the same garbage.

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posted December 29, 2006 05:01 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Have fun in hell Mr. Hypocrite.

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posted December 29, 2006 05:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
At least Saddam isn't going to get away with his butchery...like Stalin who killed up to 70 million of his own citizens and died in his sleep.

Or like Mao, who killed up to 100 million Chinese before he died a natural death.

Or like Pol Pot who killed at least 3 million Cambodians...and died before he could be tried.

Or like Ho, who killed untold numbers of South Vietnamese but at least 2-3 million and it would have been many more but they escaped...many to America. Ho managed to die a natural death.

Or like the insane Kim Jong Il who has tortured, murdered and starved to death more than 2 million of his own citizens. Hopefully he won't die in his sleep but either at the end of a rope or in front of a firing squad.

They do have one other thing in common though and it's no surprise to me to see the crocodile tears for poor little Saddam.

They are/were all murderous communist/socialist dictators. Butchers one and all.

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posted December 29, 2006 05:10 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Quit trying to change the story.

You agreeing with murder is bad enough also. It makes you just as evil as them.

You think just because you don't pick up a sword or gun and do it yourself that you're an angel.


Don't worry. They will all be in hell with you also.


You won't be alone.


The things people do and say when they blindly worship government criminals.

How sad.


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posted December 29, 2006 05:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Funny, you don't sound like god to me and I've had the advantage of seeing your picture...so let me say, you don't look like god either.

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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 05:14 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
At no point did I even say I was god. In fact I don't even know if there is one but I do believe in a higher power.


And let me tell you something.


I know I won't be judged because I will never support murder or even let those thoughts go through my head. I rather die a thousand deaths then to support something that has made this world the garbage that it is today.


You...well that's a different story.


You support it on a daily basis.

Your judgment will come old man.


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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 05:16 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Maybe Georgy will share his coke with you all once you get down there.


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posted December 29, 2006 05:20 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
But then again I would expect that from you.


You voted for a coke head, and an idiot who can't even read 3 words without stuttering.


Pathetic if you ask me.


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posted December 29, 2006 05:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Execution is the right punishment for those who deliberately shed "innocent" blood.

So TP, let me recommend a trip to the service station of you. Perhaps they can help you get rid of some of that air in your head.

I know you must be over inflated. You keep talking about hell...and judgment but on the other hand...you don't know whether or not there is a God.

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posted December 29, 2006 05:32 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Execution is the right punishment for those who deliberately shed "innocent" blood.


So then you, and Bush should be executed also.


You support the murder of innocent people.


It's not only insurgents that get killed.....the innocent people get killed all the time. But of course, newsmax won't tell you that.


It's sad how you think you seem to be right about this. You're not.


Say anything you want. You are a murder supporter.


Nothing will change that.

You're in denial about your murderous thoughts.


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posted December 29, 2006 05:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bush has murdered no one. In spite of your inflamed overblown rhetoric.

Let me guess. You couldn't define murder if your life depended on it.

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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 05:36 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

All he had to do was speak those words.


"Go to war"


Same **** if you ask me.


That's enough for him to be a murderer.

He gave the go ahead.


Words and actions are the same crap when supporting murder is involved.

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posted December 29, 2006 05:41 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just the way a leader of a drug cartel sends his people to kill those who owe money.


Same crap.

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posted December 29, 2006 05:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

You've shown me nothing to foster any confidence you can even define murder. On the other hand, you've provided plenty of evidence you cannot.

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posted December 29, 2006 05:48 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You can't handle my Gemini sun and Gemini mercury.


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posted December 29, 2006 05:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In a way...you're right

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Now, define murder.

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Sweet Stars
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posted December 29, 2006 06:05 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Murder - Killing other people, agreeing with killing other people.

Same crap

Have fun in hell buddy!!!!!


I'm gonna go out and have me some red wine and I'm gonna be happy because I don't support this crap!

Tell Papa Satan I said hi.

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