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| DevilDogUSMC |
Court: Execute Saddam Within 30 Days
Dec 26 12:26 PM US/Eastern
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq
Iraq's highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein's death sentence and said he must be hanged within 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in the central city of Dujail.
The sentence "must be implemented within 30 days," chief judge Aref Shahin said. "From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation."
On Nov. 5, an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam to the gallows for ordering the 1982 killings following an attempt on his life.
Under Iraqi law, the appeals court decision must be ratified by President Jalal Talabani and Iraq's two vice presidents. Talabani opposes the death penalty but has in the past deputized a vice president to sign an execution order on his behalf _ a substitute that was legally accepted.
Raed Juhi, a spokesman for the High Tribunal court that convicted Saddam, said the judicial system would ensure that Saddam is executed even if Talabani and the two vice presidents do not ratify the decision.
"We'll implement the verdict by the power of the law," Juhi said. He did not elaborate.
The appeals court also upheld death sentences for Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and intelligence chief during the Dujail killings, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, which issued the death sentences against the Dujail residents.
The appeals court concluded the sentence of life imprisonment given to former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan was too lenient and returned his file to the High Tribunal. Ramadan was convicted of premeditated murder in the Dujail case.
"We demand that he be sentenced to death," said Shahin, the appeals judge.
At his trial, Saddam argued that the Dujail residents who were killed had been convicted in a legitimate Iraqi court for trying to assassinate him in 1982.
The televised trial was watched throughout Iraq and the Middle East as much for theater as for substance. Saddam was ejected from the courtroom repeatedly for political harangues, and his half brother once showed up in long underwear and sat with his back to the judges.
The nine-month trial inflamed Iraq's political divide, however, and three defense lawyers and a witness were murdered during the course of its 39 sessions.
Saddam is in the midst of a second trial charging him with genocide and other crimes during a 1987-88 military crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq. An estimated 180,000 Kurds died during the operation.
Saddam was found hiding with an unfired pistol in a hole in the ground near his home village north of Baghdad in December 2003, eight months after he fled the capital ahead of advancing American troops.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/26/D8M8LMV00.html
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Let all dicktators and tyrants know they are not invincible... |
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| MisterOpus1 |
Terrific. When shall you be leading the charge to invade Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Cuba, and about, oh, a dozen other countries?
Make sure you tell us all that they have WMDs pointed at our heads first before we do, please. That'll definitely help.
Oh yeah, have you seen bin Laden lately? |
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| DevilDogUSMC |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
Terrific. When shall you be leading the charge to invade Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Cuba, and about, oh, a dozen other countries?
Make sure you tell us all that they have WMDs pointed at our heads first before we do, please. That'll definitely help.
Oh yeah, have you seen bin Laden lately? |
You'd make an excellent human shield for them since you
love em so much. Please, leave the country you hate and
go stand up for them. They'll treat you like gold :stongue: |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by DevilDogUSMC
You'd make an excellent human shield for them since you
love em so much. Please, leave the country you hate and
go stand up for them. They'll treat you like gold :stongue: |
You definitely misread his post. |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
Oh yeah, have you seen bin Laden lately? |
i don't think anybody has seen him. the guy could be taking a dirt nap in a cave somewhere or eating a can of beans in a cave somewhere either way he's in a cave somewhere prolly. why? |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
Make sure you tell us all that they have WMDs pointed at our heads first before we do, please. That'll definitely help.
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i won't fall for that one again too easy. i don't care what every intel agency in the world says this time a decade after the fact.
i bet your gullable ass would though if every or any one of your donkey-party heroes repeated the same things they said 7 yrs ago.
...and you'd still be repeating these tired, myopic, "Bush lied WMD" talking points from DemocraticUnderground.
7 yrs. ago Bush was still the governor of Texas. fact. |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
Terrific. When shall you be leading the charge to invade Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Cuba, and about, oh, a dozen other countries? |
say we did...would you err on the side of fashion and tear down our efforts to get more Democrats elected to office? |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by DevilDogUSMC
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Let all dicktators and tyrants know they are not invincible... |
Like the one who got rid of Habeus Corpus? And has the "authority" to label anyone as an "enemy combatant," "strip them of their citizenship," "torture them" (or redefine torture rather, which is really the same thing), even if that mean "crushing the testicles of the suspects child?"
Isn't it about time for you to be torturing and raping people of all ages and genders about right now? Then again, weren't you planning on peaceful non-violent protest? This isn't a bad place for a mindless neocon grunt like yourself to start a little bit of research and use that underdeveloped brain of yours:
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...7&forumid=66&s=
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...5&forumid=66&s=
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...6&forumid=66&s= |
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DevilDogUSMC
You'd make an excellent human shield for them since you
love em so much. Please, leave the country you hate and
go stand up for them. They'll treat you like gold :stongue: |
Ha ha ha!!! Oh my that's so cute! The wit just flows so easily from you, doesn't it?
As much as I'd love to match wits with you all night, perhaps you can try to answer the question once again:
| quote: | | When shall you be leading the charge to invade Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Cuba, and about, oh, a dozen other countries? |
Or do you believe that some dictators are okay while others are not? |
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
i don't think anybody has seen him. the guy could be taking a dirt nap in a cave somewhere or eating a can of beans in a cave somewhere either way he's in a cave somewhere prolly. why? |
I dunno - guess it would have been a good idea to actually go after and capture the guy who attacked us before we consider invading another country again, that's all. |
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
i won't fall for that one again too easy. i don't care what every intel agency in the world says this time a decade after the fact.
i bet your gullable ass would though if every or any one of your donkey-party heroes repeated the same things they said 7 yrs ago.
...and you'd still be repeating these tired, myopic, "Bush lied WMD" talking points from DemocraticUnderground.
7 yrs. ago Bush was still the governor of Texas. fact. |
And? Does that somehow excuse Curveball?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...MNGCLC1Q5U1.DTL
Does that excuse Judy Miller from that gosh darn librul NYTimes from reporting on her Chalabi bull source without verifying his credibility?
Does that somehow excuse Bush deliberately linking Saddam to al Qaeda when it was clear there was no link prior to making the claim?:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...MNGLTFJRLA1.DTL
http://nationaljournal.com/about/nj...005/1122nj1.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10164478
Yes, I know, we can go 'round and 'round all night about the things we've discussed ad nauseum, but these issues are still unanswered as were numerous others thanks in large part to my Senator Pat Roberts stalling the out of Part II of the SSCI report on Iraq's WMDs. Don't worry, though, thanks to America waking up and putting the Dems. back in power in Congress, hopefully Rockefeller will finish that which was deliberately stalled by your GOP boys.
And help me out here, did Clinton ever find it prudent to invade Iraq based on such intelligence? Did any country that had "similar" intelligence ever act on it as well as willfully dismiss any counterintelligence that came its way in the same manner as Bush? Or shall we cease with that cute charade of blaming Clinton and the rest of the world for Bush's blatant shortcomings? |
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
say we did...would you err on the side of fashion and tear down our efforts to get more Democrats elected to office? |
Since when have you ever known tree-huggin' smelly hippie libruls such as myself ever be slaves to fashion?:D |
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