Saddam to die

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Saddam to die

Post by succotash_54 » Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:53 am

I know this section is supposed to be for announcements regarding Drowning City, but the sheer gravity of this story merits it being posted in a forum called "Public Service Announcements." Said gravity is also why I've locked this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061105/ap_ ... am_verdict

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein and two other men were convicted and sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for war crimes in the 1982 killings of 148 people in the town of Dujail, as the former leader, trembling, shouted "God is great!"

After the verdict was read, Saddam yelled out, "Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!"

Clashes immediately broke out in north Baghdad's heavily Sunni Azamiyah district.

Saddam initially refused the chief judge's order to rise; two bailiffs lifted the ousted ruler to his feet and he remained standing through the sentencing.

Before the hearing began, one of Saddam's lawyers, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, was ejected from the courtroom after handing the judge a memorandum in which he called the trial a travesty.

Chief Judge Raouf Abdul-Rahman pointed to Clark and said in English, "Get out."

In addition to the former Iraqi dictator and Barzan Ibrahim, his former intelligence chief and half brother, the Iraqi High Tribunal convicted and sentenced Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the head of Iraq's former Revolutionary Court, to death by hanging. Iraq's former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Three other co-defendants were convicted of murder and torture and sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

One defendant was acquitted for lack of evidence.

succotash_54
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Saddam to die

Post by succotash_54 » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:27 am

And it's over.

Saddam Hussein
1937-2006

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