‘Saddam faces quick execution, no monument’

[sabra]

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‘Saddam faces quick execution, no monument’
(AFP)

BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein and two top aides convicted with him will be executed immediately after an appeals court confirms their sentences and may be buried in secret, an official said on Tuesday.

A senior Iraqi government official said he fully expected the judicial panel studying the ousted dictator’s appeal to confirm death sentences on Saddam, his half brother Barzan Al Tikriti and a former judge, Awad Al Bandar.

“We are considering the possibility of executing the three, Saddam, Barzan and Bandar at one time on the same day,” the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity because the court is supposed to be independent.

“We may bury Saddam at a secret location,” he said.

“His body may later be handed over to his relatives, as under Muslim rituals we can exhume the body after it is buried. But one thing the government will ensure is that there is no memorial built for Saddam anywhere in Iraq.”

[ck4829]

1. A quick execution and quiet disposal of the body...

Imagine that.

[Bigmack]

2. If there's a Karl Rove....

type in Iraq, politicians/dictators in the future will build their careers on bringing back the "good old days" under Saddam. He'll be hailed as a martyr who died fighting the hated infidel Americans. There's one thing we do well with our foreign policy, and that's create martyrs.

[shain from kane]

3. His memorial and the memorial of our invasion lives on every day in Iraq.

[wtmusic]

4. The government, at the moment, is not in a position to ensure anything nt

[Little Wing]

5. There's already a memorial to Saddam

In the form of a 60 foot tall pyramid of cash at the Halliburton HQ

[saigon68]

8. And in the 6 foot cash pile of Draft Dodger Dick Cheneys pension

[Posteritatis]

10. You forgot the 430,000-square-kilometer funeral pyre. (n/t)

[truthisfreedom]

6. What if they got the wrong guy?

Just askin'.

[Rex]

7. Got to get rid of any eyewitnesses to the BFEEs crimes.

Quick and in secret, no surprise here. So how will we know if they actually did kill Saddam? We won't, just like OBL.

[Nihil]

9. That says it all really ...

> BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein and two top aides convicted with him will be
> executed immediately after an appeals court confirms their sentences
> and may be buried in secret, an official said on Tuesday.
>
> ... the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity because
> the court is supposed to be independent.

Ah, you've got to love that Nazi justice haven't you?

No embarrassing secrets about the current & past US Administrations.
No "I told you so" about the ongoing f-up in Iraq.
Just a quick bullet to the back of the head and an anonymous burial.

Stalin would have been proud. Pol Pot is approving the process of law.
George W Bush is smirking and the world turns away in disgust.

[greccogirl]

13. It isn't going to be a bullet.

He's going to be hanged. And he deserves it richly.

[JetCityLiberal]

22. Like b*sh for treason

he deserves it richly. I have no love for that terrorist either.

[AlwaysQuestion]

14. Precisely!!

n/t

[KansDem]

25. Sounds a lot like what happened to McVeigh...

Quick and quiet execution to protect the neo-con fascist agenda...

[Vidar]

11. No good will come of this

[Cass]

12. Any word on when the appeals court is going to issue a ruling?

BTW, I found this wording disturbing: "...will be executed immediately after an appeals court confirms their sentences..."

Saddam Hussein should have been tried at the Hague.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

16. To save time, they already have

IMHO

[Nihil]

18. Appeals? Shmappeals!

Who do you think he is? Ken Lay? Shilling?

There are no appeals for "Bad Guys" (tm) ... even ones that the
US Administration actively supported for years ...

> Saddam Hussein should have been tried at the Hague.

Exactly right but it was never going to happen ... far too much
risk of the "wrong" answers being given and publicised.

[GreenZoneLT]

20. Saturday, supposedly

It's been pretty cryptically announced by the Iraqi government, but best I can tell, the appeals court will announce its ruling Saturday, followed (according to this anonymous source) by an immediate execution. The law in Iraq is that the execution MUST take place within 30 days after the appeals panel affirms the sentence, but I don't think there's any minimum amount of time that must elapse.

So he's probably got less than three days left among us. Bye, Saddam. Thanks for nuttin'.

The Kurds are going to be pissed off if they execute him. They want a verdict on the "Al Anfal" Kurdish genocide trial first. The case he was convicted on was the mass murder of a Shiite village, after an attempted assassination.

[NaturalHigh]

15. I won't shed any tears.

Saddam is a sadistic bastard. He's getting off easy compared to most of his victims.

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

23. Him and Bush(es), course Bush is getting off way easier than Saddam n/t

[CJCRANE]

17. 600,000 deaths later...

and we finally get Saddam.

on edit: But hang on a minute...wasn't this whole war on terror thing started by someone called bin Laden..?

[HuffleClaw]

19. yet more proof of what a sick sad joke BUSHCO. 'justice' truly is

"will be executed"

"fully expected... ...confirm death sentences"

"...a secret location"

"...no memorial"


this REALLY sounds like something that only the childish mind of BUSH could have thought up. bush was the guy who had saddams childrens corpses propped up and put on display and who put saddam in a giant CRIB at his trial.

[classysassy]

21. More innocent blood

proberly will be shed after the court of Bushco kill another Iraqi.

[Javaman]

24. I bet you all my marbles that moron* fully believes that as soon

as Saddam is dead, everything will quiet down in Iraq.

Call in intuition, a feeling, a vibe what have you, but lets face it, moron* just isn't that deep and is pretty simple in his* feelings and emotions.

Yes, he* is that stupid.