NBC: Saddam to be hanged by Sunday - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reported Thursday. According to a U.S. military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, Saddam will be hanged before the start of the Eid religious holiday, which begins at sundown Saturday.
The hanging could take place as early as Friday, NBC’s Richard Engel reported.
I have to join the British government, the Pope, and a host of concerned citizens worldwide, and demand that Saddam not be hanged.
Can’t we feed him feet first through a plastics shredder instead? On television? In living color? With full surround-sound and closeups?
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I say feed him through the rollers of the printing press at the NYT.
The 1982 event that resulted in a death sentence was the first trial of several. The Kurds are preparing charges for several mass murders using nerve agent, and the marsh arabs have their own genocide charges coming up. Can those trials continue if the defendant has already been executed? If not, you’d have to conclude the Iraqi government has a death wish to deny those groups their day in court.
The Kurds are starting to grant oil concessions without the approval of the central govt, some to US companies.
Lorenzo: yes, they can still - and just might - conduct additional trails even though he will be dead.
He could be tried in absentia, or perhaps more correctly, post mortem.