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Arab Media Reporting: Saddam Executed

Good riddance.

Following television reports at 7:10pm PT. More momentarily...

UPDATES:

Al-Hurra/Reuters reports he's hanged.

MSNBC is reporting what al-Hurra TV, al-Arabiya and Sky News TV have run with.

al-Arabiya is now reporting that the death occured at 7:05pm PT.

Stay in touch with Iraq the Model blog for regular updates directly from Iraq.

7:33pm PT: CNN is now reporting that one of Saddam's lawyers is confirming the Butcher of Baghdad has been executed. Additonal multiple sources, including government and military are also now confirming.

7:43pm PT: The BBC is reporting is was filmed. A mention in this story as well about the two other savages who will be meeting Allah tonight.

Two co-defendants, Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and former Iraqi chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bandar, were also expected to be executed.

8:04pm PT: A satisfying, clear, and unflinching obit on the tyrant from The Times of London. While they take the usual, albeit brief, Euro swipe at President Bush, it starts like this, and never lets up:

Saddam Hussein was a tyrant whose actions brought down unimaginable catastrophe on Iraq and its peoples. From an early age, he had enjoyed inflicted suffering on those around him and, when he came to positions of political power, those whom he could not force or corrupt into submitting to his will, he maimed, murdered or made to flee.

He started two major international wars - one against Iran, the second as a result of aggression against Kuwait - which cost an estimated one million lives. He instituted genocidal campaigns against the Kurds in the north of Iraq and the Marsh Arabs in the south. Ruling through the Sunni minority of which he was a member, he ignored the claims of the country's majority Shia population.

Posted by Tammy · December 29, 2006 07:10 PM · Permalink
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Good riddance is right. I hope the Iraqi people who suffered so horribly under this monster's rule can now find some closure.

Heard you sub for Laura today, Tammy, and very much enjoyed the show. :)

Posted by: trinity at December 29, 2006 07:43 PM

let me be the first to congratulate President George W. Bush, whose courage and moral compass led sadme straight to hell.

Take a bow, Mr Prez ... ya done good

i hope saddam saw Dubya's face when they slipped the noose around his neck!

Posted by: ConnecticutBruce at December 29, 2006 08:04 PM

Besides the pure pleasure he took in torturing and killing his subjects, let's also remember that the LATE(!!!) Saddam sired two of the most sadistic beasts that ever walked the earth. They are finally all gone. He and his rape-hobbyist sons. This is a very difficult story for the media to cover. Their opposition to the death penalty is challenged by the comments of all the Iraqis they interview who say Saddam's death was "too humane." They cannot defend Saddam because all the footage they have of his reign consists of his dead and tortured victims. But most painfully for the media, they have to acknowledge that this monster would still be in power if it were not for President George Walker Bush.

Saddam: You are no longer the President of Iraq. You lose.

Posted by: ashleymatt at December 29, 2006 08:10 PM

I, too, hope an image of our president flashed before Saddam's eyes before he descended to the deepest, darkest, hottest, most brutal level of Hell. I bet Saddam was also surprised to see his version of Allah donning a pitchfork.

Though nothing will bring back the poor souls who were senselessly slaughtered by this bastard-f(rea)k, I hope they can rest in peace, their families be comforted and the people of Iraq confident that Saddam Hussein will NEVER be able to unleash his brutality EVER again - on them - or the rest of the world.

Well, that's a major one down: let's not stop there!

Posted by: artgal at December 29, 2006 08:30 PM

If only the many death rows in this country were as quick as Iraq.

Posted by: ltlme at December 29, 2006 09:05 PM

Tonight I have been surfing a number of Web sites checking out comments concerning Saddam's execution. While there have been some of the usual nonsense ("This does not change the situation in Iraq, it will only make things worse, it does not justify the war, Bush still lied, WMDs are not really WMDs, blah, blah, blah...."), the antiwar left has been remarkably downcast and docile – for them, anyhow.

Could it be that what has happened has - for a moment, at least - humbled Iraq war critics?

I know that the words "Iraq war critics" and "humble" do not naturally belong together. But what happened in Iraq a little while ago seems to have struck awe in all of us.

It is an uncomfortable truth that the vast majority of genocidal thugs either die comfortably in bed or at the hands of rivals that often turn out to be worse that they were. History has shown us that. Even Hitler never faced trial for his crimes. Some, such as Stalin and (very soon) Castro were lauded by Western "intellectuals". I have a sinking feeling the same will one day be true for Chavez and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

Still, the Iraqi people – the victim of Saddam’s insanity – meted out punishment to their longtime tormentor. The bubble the antiwar left and the MSM created was shattered and the outside world intruded.

Tomorrow, the bubble will be carefully reconstructed. The same short-sighted leftist insanity will pour forth from the same leftist mouths. The MSM spin will begin anew. Little will change in this country.

But for a moment at least, the darkness was lifted. Justice was done. Congratulations to the Iraqi people and Coalition soldiers who sacrificed for it and never doubted it.

Posted by: Mwalimu Daudi at December 30, 2006 12:56 AM

The Iraqi people are relieved of the possibility of this monster ever coming back. No event the terrorists plan will bring Saddam back to power.

He is said to have told the executioners that Iraq is nothing without him, well now Iraq has a chance to become something without him.

The people of Iraq can decide what future they want now, with no Saddam to come back.

May the Iraqis now get control of their country and find a good future for peace.

Posted by: Skeptic at December 30, 2006 03:00 AM

I agree with you, LTLME. It's refreshing to see justice work so swiftly, sparing the victims' families from over a decade of senseless appeals the way we are all too often subjected to here.

As far as what you said, MWALIMU DAUDI, about the Left being rather "humbled" for the moment, I just read a piece by Juan Cole over on Salon.com, and he's already starting the outcry that Saddam's trial wasn't fair, so justice was not done. So predictable.

"Saddam Hussein was tried under the shadow of a foreign military occupation, by a government full of his personal enemies."

May I be the first to add, Boo-F'ing-Hoo!

Posted by: trinity at December 30, 2006 10:52 AM

"Saddam Hussein was tried under the shadow of a foreign military occupation, by a government full of his personal enemies."

Hmmmm ... perhaps Juan Cole was referring to the Nuremberg trials at the end of WWII?

But I am in error. Actually, at Nuremberg the Allies tried him, and not the Germans themselves. The present Iraqi government came about after three fair elections, and they are the ones who tried and convicted him.

I doubt that Cole or anyone else over at Salon has lost sleep over what happened to the Nazis at Nuremberg. Or maybe they have. Given the moral monstrosity the MSM has become in recent years, nothing would surprise me anymore - even an attempt on their part to rehabilitate Hitler's legacy.

Posted by: Mwalimu Daudi at December 30, 2006 01:57 PM

After watching the video of Saddam's hanging, I'm of two minds on it. I blogged on it yesterday, lamenting over the fact that we could have stopped Saddam after the first Gulf War, but we didn't, which created the situation that culminated yesterday. It doesn't bring back the dead or heal those wounded by him, and George H. W. Bush's kowtowing to the UN when we could have gone into Baghdad will be one of the unforgivable sins of the Bush family, in my opinion.

After watching the video, though, I've somewhat softened my position. I still wish we would have told the UN to go screw itself, but seeing the man who caused so much pain, suffering, and corruption in the world meet the kind of justice he rightly earned gave me a sense of closure. That's a great thing about America and Americans: we may not always do the right thing right away, but we eventually do get it done.

Posted by: TLindaman at December 31, 2006 05:19 AM

As the song goes "ding dong the witch is dead"...this is a great day for the people of Iraq who have been afraid of this piece of crap for so many years...I too am very proud of our President, who at times seemed to kowtow, but kept going no matter what the MSM or the moonbats had to say...and what's up with Ramsey Clark?...leading a demonstration in New York protesting the death of this devil? I call it treason, but many will call it freedom of speech...

Posted by: Marie at December 31, 2006 10:48 AM

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