did you think he should have been hanged?
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2006-12-31 06:57:50 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The last minutes of Saddam Hussein
Saddam (as the noose is put around his neck): Ya Allah (Oh God).
Someone in the audience: Mercy be on those who pray for Mohammed and the household of Mohammed (Everyone repeats the prayer, including Saddam)
Executioner and two people in the audience: And hasten his return (the Mahdi), curse his enemy and grant victory to his son, Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada! (This is a common Sadrist chant.)
Saddam (smirking): Muqtada?
NSA Muwafaq Al-Rubai'i: To Hell!
Saddam: (laughing)
Prosecutor Munqidh Al-Far'awn: Please, no.
Muwafaq Al-Rubi'i: Longlive Mohammad Baqir Al-Sadr!
Someone in the audience: To Hell!
Saddam (solemnly recites the Shahada prayer): I witness that there is no god but Allah, and that Mohammed is the messenger of Allah. I witness that there is no god but Allah, and that Mohammed is the- (trap door is opened).
Audience: Prayers for Mohammed and the household of Mohammad.
Someone: The tyrant has fell. May Allah's curse be upon him.
Someone: No. No. Stay back.
Someone: Leave him for 8 minutes. Don't take him down.
Someone: Everyone. Stay back.
2007-01-01 02:35:41 · answer #1 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was an execution that will do nothing to quell the violence on Iraq's streets ...
The Independent :
"...There was a time when the death of Saddam might have been a solution of a kind. It might have been a clean break with the past, offering Iraq a new beginning. An open trial might have embodied the start of the rule of law. An execution might have united Iraqis. Regrettably - and to the eternal disgrace of the occupying powers - it will resolve nothing in the vortex that is today's Iraq..."
I couldn't agree more ...
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2007-01-03 11:16:03 · answer #2 · answered by dawicca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's say we say "no". Will it bring him back?
Generally I am against execution. State has no right for executing people. But there are some cases, especially when we are talking about crimes against humanity. Saddam falls into this category.
Nevertheless, the way, the timing and the whole process was a total insult for any democracy. Even war criminals were allowed for a last visit from families, a last dinner or smoke and a last pray. The Iraqis just showed they are just like Saddam, without any respect for humans and human rights.
2006-12-31 07:04:40 · answer #3 · answered by blapath 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
How can Saddam (Rehmatullah) embrace martyrdom with smile?
Just before 3 seconds of his hanging and the knot around his neck, when some Shia Muslims in front of him were abusing him, he was smiling and answering all of the abuses of the whole crowd instead of fearing death just a few seconds away from him. In the noise of abuses, he recited the Shahadah and Kalma, but before he could finish his kalma, he was hanged brutally. Those 3 seconds just changed a lot around him. And I used to wonder how are legends and heroes made? And I saw this with my own eyes with an utter dis-belief with the kind of bravery and calmness a hero embraces death.
When I dug deep behind his smiles and inside Quran which he believed true, I saw a verse saying "And those who die in the path of Allah, don't call them dead as they are alive and eating, but you don't have enough power to see them alive". In the due course, I suddenly realized that he became alive inside me as my hero. Someone who is thousands of miles away, have never met me and I have heard nothing but media propaganda against him, how can only 3 seconds change him from ZERO to HERO? I realized the difference lies in the bravery and the kind of calmness that Islam gives to its followers without any fear of death.
Muslims are supposed to look deep into the eyes of death with the kind of smile that death itself is frightened. And here I remember the saying of a great leader of Indian Muslims Mr.Tipu Sultan that ONE day of life of a brave lion is better than 100 years of life of a coward jackal. How many more Saddams will be needed to awaken the Muslim Ummah from sleep? I believe none as if those who can't awaken now they are better sleeping and dead as cowards. Let them sleep and let the brave Muslims enjoy this brief stay in this world by looking deep down the eyes of Gun fire, Missiles, Aeroplanes, Nukes, and whatever ways evil created to bring fear amongst its enemies. But Good will always prevail and Evil is the one that was, is and will be damned forever.
His last words to the abusive crowd in front of him were "You are not man enough". Long live human decency, bravery, intelligence and the power to reason!!!
2007-01-01 16:45:24 · answer #4 · answered by Amir 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I know he has done some bad things and he does deserve death. But he does not deserve to be hanged and does not deserve to be hanged on a Religious day. Did you hear about the American Soldier that stamped his feet on the Muslim Holy Book. I hope he dies the most painful death ever!! Muslim people are doing bad things but there are Muslim people out ther who are nice, kind, caring, thoughtful just like me and my family are. Not all Muslim people are bad so people need to be fair.
2007-01-03 07:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by calipornication 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is part of Iraq's penal code for enacting the punishment for the crime(s) he was found guilty of.
So it all depends on if you believe in that particular form of punishment I suppose.
There are many leaders in this vast world who have been pivotal in the deaths of some of their own countrymen , sometimes for purely monetary gain rather than territorial issues, that would also be eligible for a similar trial - if the impartiality is their then the question should be directed at all ?.
Dunno.
2006-12-31 13:56:01 · answer #6 · answered by Jon H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why can people not just read all the questions regarding Saddam that have been asked on here today. Its all getting a bit boring. I'm sure you'll find the answer you are looking for on the other 100s of Saddam questions.
2006-12-31 07:02:53 · answer #7 · answered by S 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
No all it shows is that the new government is as barbaric as Saddams.They already have their own death squads torturing and killing hundreds of people .The trial was a joke The first 2 judges were sacked because it wasn`t going to plan .The 140 he was on trial for killing were part of the same group as those trying him .They were killed because they were plotting to kill him when he was the head of state. His hanging was a revenge killing the same as he was hung for .
If it was all above board why wasn`t he tried for the genocide of the Kurds like he would have been in an international court .
2006-12-31 07:40:55 · answer #8 · answered by keny 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
along with others yes,but only him,no fair.George Bush is no better,he should be executed too for killing so many INNOCENT iraqi civilianz"in sake of protecting them from another doom" and on christmas..if they were trying to protect iraq from saddam hussein by hanging him,den dey should try to save the world by BURNING bush ALIVE.
2007-01-01 01:35:22 · answer #9 · answered by Suri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course he should. He murdered all those people for no reason but religious beleifs and terror. He also was involved in corrupting the Iraqi government. His hanging wasnt enough. I would have said let him sit in a jail until he is about to die and then hang him.
2006-12-31 07:01:20 · answer #10 · answered by AnswersGuru 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋