Hussein sentenced to death by hanging

[Puppetmaster]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced former President Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail.

Iraqis, under a curfew in Baghdad, spilled out onto the capital's streets in celebration of the verdict, news footage showed.
Along with Hussein, his half-brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Hassan, and former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad Bandar also got death.
Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former vice president of Iraq, was sentenced to life in prison.

The 50-minute session was dramatic. Hussein entered with a Quran in hand, as he had in the past. He began screaming Allahu Akhbar -- God is great -- as the verdict and sentencing was read.
He also argued with the chief judge and shouted, "Damn you and your court."
As the judge ordered him taken away, Hussein said, "Don't push me, boy."

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[fire999]

Just saw this an hour over Fox News....did we not expect this verdict back in 2003?

Americanos invading a soverign country and draining the oil resources.....what gives?

Just because oil is a finite resource and USA-SUV producing conglomerates can't get enough to get the pipeline in the works...

There is no justice, no God....all boils down who's got the $$$ and power to carry out such atrocities...

Sadamn was no angel but no way in hell he deserved to trialed behind a panel chosen by the elitists....

Such is life....gotta watch your back wherever you go....you never know when you are gonna get burnt like he did...

[2030]

I think he deserved it. Not sure if the trial was fair tho...

[Thomas]

I think he deserved it. Not sure if the trial was fair tho...

I agree that he deserved it for all the bad things that he had done.

[AustralianGQ]

do we even need a fair trial for this shit? we all know hes guilty of killing hundreds of thousands of ppl, invading kuwait and starting the oil fires...u dont need a trial to prove anything against this guy and we should of killed him along time ago...

[2030]

do we even need a fair trial for this shit? we all know hes guilty of killing hundreds of thousands of ppl, invading kuwait and starting the oil fires...u dont need a trial to prove anything against this guy and we should of killed him along time ago...

You always need a fair trial.
Remember when we were all so sure he had weapons of mass destruction, and he didnt?
Thats why you always need to look at facts, and not rumors and opinions

[Vascog]

mayB now there will be pese.

[comradeyb]

i reckon that this will precipitate a new cycle of violence in iraq...worse than ever before...i feel sorry for the iraqis, but the US will pay a heavy price for its interference...

[ed0kun]

eevil

[trancer_ITA]

i reckon that this will precipitate a new cycle of violence in iraq...worse than ever before...i feel sorry for the iraqis, but the US will pay a heavy price for its interference...

At the moment the sentence has to be confirmed.. if so (very probable) he will become a sort of martyre for millions of fanatics. But an eventual change of the sentence would be received by some groups of terrorists as a sign of weakness by the americans, with evident consequences.

In the end, the result would be the same, and the victims will still be the iraqis (or good part of them), and the soldiers.

I think that the best solution was the life imprisonement, but now is too late, in my opinion.

[MurasakiNeko]

In the future, i hope people will see past the killing, and stick to intelligent debates based on facts, and truths.

I was never that big of a fan of the death sentance, but i havn't had my life impacted by such 'ugly' individuals as other people have.

[andy85]

do we even need a fair trial for this shit? we all know hes guilty of killing hundreds of thousands of ppl, invading kuwait and starting the oil fires...u dont need a trial to prove anything against this guy and we should of killed him along time ago...

i reckon aye....this guy doesnt deserve a fair trial. What he does deserve is an EXTREMELY slow death.

[yisiong]

omg quite sad and happy

[terminator]

He derserves it, the amount of people he slaughtered during his time in power was unreal

[Dretje]

Hang the man i think.
The trial costs tons of dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dav_mt]

this may well start the third world war

[Dj Mastadon]

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You always need a fair trial.
Remember when we were all so sure he had weapons of mass destruction, and he didnt?
Thats why you always need to look at facts, and not rumors and opinions

Actually if you payed more attention they have found hundreds of chemical munitions scattered throughout the country...no it wasen't the huge stockpiles they claimed he had but it still proves he did not destroy all of them.

[HardTranceAddict]

im a watch it on youtube :P

[azntechguy]

Well, whether he dies or lives, it's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" kind of situation. If he goes, you'll have fanatics going crazy and you'll have all the whining from everybody on "how he didn't get a fair trial" or whatever other angle that I can't even imagine right now. If he stays, he's just a worthless asset, just wasting everyone's time and money.

I personally think that if he's even remotely responsible for causing all that trouble, he doesn't have a place here.

[DJMiika]

He has killed a lot of people... But that laws of killing... I think it´s a human right. I think life imprisionment would be better. Human rights are human rights for all people, and doing the same that Saddam has done we won´t do better.
He would be rot in prision for all his life.

[nickc1]

not a fan of the death penalty but for someone like him maybe no other alternative

[oldfart]

he shouldn't have been sentenced by hanging... he should be tiep up in the middle of baghdad and let the iraqi people do whatever they want to do to him.

[2030]

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Actually if you payed more attention they have found hundreds of chemical munitions scattered throughout the country...no it wasen't the huge stockpiles they claimed he had but it still proves he did not destroy all of them.

Thats propaganda mate.

[@NTIM@TTER]

Personally I don't agree with this decision, I would prefer life emprisonment.

[Arcana]

sure glad to see him go. he caused a lot of mayhem around here...curse him and i hope he suffers in hell.
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[Arcana]

Actually i believe he sould die just like he did to the Kurds...
by lethal gas. What goes around comes around.

[DJ UP2 DEATH]

he dsrv it

[Arnhem party people]

:x_we:

Actually if you payed more attention they have found hundreds of chemical munitions scattered throughout the country...no it wasen't the huge stockpiles they claimed he had but it still proves he did not destroy all of them.

I am sorry to say but I have bin many times in the US the last 5years and every time i get there i see that the people in the US get brainwashed about al Qaida and Iraq. I am not saying what Hoessein and al Qaida did was good.... now way! but you must inform people correctly and not only to try to make them scared. And of course Saddam and Bin Laden have to go to prison and not a death penalty because then they will be heroes for decades.

[Obsidian_eyes]

I call it ..FATE ..if you live by the sword ..you die by the sword .

[ally]

:D but i wonder have USA are going to do to get out of irak;P

[Tranzi]

By arguing with the judge he got what he deserved. Majority rules in the decision and so to with his half-brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Hassan along with former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad Bandar.

[morriarty]

I think that It was an unfair trial. Though The verdict would have always been the same.' Sentenced to death'. so to cut costs and to put the people of Iraq to peace of mind. It had to be done as quickly as poss so the country's political reconstruction could begin.