The Hanging of Saddam Hussein (Video)
The hanging of Saddam Hussein- December 30, 2006.
The video originally aired on Al Iraqiya television.
His death came instantaneously.
(1 minute 19 seconds)
HotAir also has a video clip from FOX News of his hanging.
The Jawa Report has "the drop" that didn't make the media cuts.
FOX News released video later today from a different angle.
BBC- Iraqi state TV showed images of Saddam Hussein going to the gallows before dawn in a building his intelligence services once used for executions.
Iraq the Model- "Saddam lost his humanity the day he committed his first crime, so the one I saw walking to the rope this morning was no man to me."
An Iraqi Baghdad uses a shoe to beat an effigy of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. US President George W. Bush has hailed Saddam's execution as "an important milestone" on the road to building an Iraqi democracy but warned it will not end deadly violence there.(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
Austin Bay- "The next to last thing Saddam ever expected was a hangman’s noose. The last thing he expected, of course, was a fair trial."
Jeff Goldstein shares thoughts on the execution.
Associated Press- Saddam clutched a Quran as he was led to the gallows, and in one final moment of defiance, refused to have a hood pulled over his head before facing the same fate he was accused of inflicting on countless thousands during a quarter-century of ruthless power.
Shiite Iraqi Badr forces hold up a picture of Mohammed Baqr Al-Sadr (R), assassinated during the regime of Saddam Hussein. Iraqi Shiites, persecuted during Saddam's 24-year rule, feted his end as a dream come true, dancing and hammering off bullets. (AFP)
Michelle Malkin- Saddam's Last Moment.
Davids Medienkritik has Europe's reaction to the execution.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 12/30/2006 07:15:00 AM
8 Comments:
Great!
Glad this happened so quickly. Justice is served.
"His death came instantaneously."
... following Saddam's death apparently wingnuts all over American instantaneously came.
Anyone who actually looks at this video is pathetic and needs to look into their soul. Ditto for anyone who looked at the video of the beheading of Nick Berg.
Interesting last photo. The Badr Brigade is the Shia rival to Moqtada al-Sadr. However, Badr has no problems with posters showing Mohammed Baqr Al-Sadr, Moqtada's father-in-law.
Political designs behind Saddam’s execution :
1. Saddam is clearly the scapegoat for an international war syndicate, which includes many in our current political leadership, both in front and behind the scenes. Evacuating due process, controlling evidence and terrorizing the defense team were all par for the course in Saddam’s trial. A key reason for the speedy road to execution, was to eliminate a prominent player and key witness of this international criminal war conspiracy, thereby avoid further indictment of members of our leadership, many of whom have been accessory to Saddam’s actual crimes.
2. To « bookend » media fatigue and public indifference, re : Saddam’s trial. The whole point of the « trial » was to deliver a quick public execution, and thereby feed the hunger for blood so brilliantly cultivated in Western public opinion. An execution gives sense of heightened drama, and inagurates the next round of intensified bloodshed in the region… and beyond.
3. Lastly, to make Saddam a martyr for (gasp!) sympathisers, thereby deepening chaos in the middle-east over a longer period of time. Certainly, the US-led war in Iraq can be called a success insofar as its central purpose has been to aid the spreading of chaos in the Middle-East.
Kim,
Get a grip.
I think some people are upset at this victory for freedom from evil.
Tell it to the families of the 75 Iraqis and 6 Americans who were killed today.
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