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Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging

Jomana Karadsheh and Aneesh Raman
CNN
Sunday, November 5, 2006

Comment: Saddam's fate is sealed but what about those of his accomplices
and business partners? Some of the very Neo-Cons that still control the
White House today and armed Saddam and enabled him to build up a power
base in the first place, but they will milk this for all it's worth
before Tuesday's mid-terms.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced a
combative Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging
for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail.

Iraqis under a curfew in Baghdad spilled out into the streets in
celebration of the verdict, news footage showed. But protests were held
in Saddam Hussein's hometown.

Along with Hussein, his half-brother and former intelligence chief
Barzan Hassan, and former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad
Bandar also got death. (Watch Hussein shout protests during sentencing
-- 4:05 )

Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former vice president of Iraq, was sentenced to
life in prison.

"The verdict was predetermined and has nothing to do with court
proceedings," Ramadan said.

Mohammed Azzawi Ali, a former Dujail Baath Party official, was acquitted
because of insufficient evidence against him, the court said.

The three others -- Abdullah Kadhem Ruwaid, Ali Dayem Ali, and Misher
Abdullah Ruwaid -- were sentenced to 15 years each.

There will be automatic appeals for the four who were sentenced to death
and life in prison.

The 50-minute session was dramatic. Hussein entered with a Quran in
hand, as he had in the past. He began screaming Allahu Akhbar -- God is
great -- as the verdict and sentencing was read.

He also argued with the chief judge and shouted, "Damn you and your
court."

As the judge ordered him taken away, Hussein said, "Don't push me, boy."

Bandar also screamed Allahu Akhbar as he was taken out of court.

Defense attorney Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. attorney general, was
ousted by judges early in the session. The court asked him to leave,
saying he had come here from the United States to mock the Iraqi people
and the court.

Another defense attorney, Ziad al-Najdawi, angrily told reporters as he
left the courtroom, "That's the American justice."

The Dujail case stemmed from a crackdown against townspeople after a
1982 assassination attempt against Hussein in the town. The crackdown
involved the ordered executions of 148 males.

Before Sunday's verdicts were announced, a curfew was imposed in Baghdad
and two provinces -- Diyala and Salaheddin -- with large Sunni
populations ahead of expected violence.

Predominantly Shiite and Kurdish provinces were not under curfew.

About 2,000 protesters in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Sunday
defied the curfew and demonstrated in support of the former leader.

A witness said the protesters carried posters of the former president
and were shooting into the air.

The numbers of demonstrators grew after the sentence was announced. A
complete movement ban -- both people and vehicles -- was imposed on
Sunday in the provinces of Baghdad, Diyala and Salaheddin -- where
Tikrit is located.

The Baghdad International Airport also shut down until further notice.

This verdicts come nearly three years after U.S.-led forces plucked
Hussein out of hiding and just a few days before U.S. midterm elections,
with the Iraqi war at center stage.

The U.S. ambassador in Iraq praised the verdicts and sentencing as "an
important milestone for Iraq."

"Although the Iraqis may face difficult days in the coming weeks,
closing the book on Saddam and his regime is an opportunity to unite and
build a better future," Zalmay Khalilzad said in a statement issued
shortly after the verdicts were rendered.

Outbursts and walkouts
The Dujail trial, the first in what is a series of proceedings against
former regime officials, began October 19, 2005, and ended July 27. It
was a turbulent courtroom battle witnessed on TV across the globe.

It was marked by outbursts and harangues from Hussein and his
co-defendants, lawyer walkouts, much-criticized court actions, and
complaints from lawyers about poor security. There were grave concerns
about security for legal teams and their families; three defense lawyers
were killed. (Full story)

Witness testimony and prosecutors got their case across, however.
According to court documents, the military, political and security
apparatus in Iraq and Dujail killed, arrested, detained and tortured
men, women and children in the town. Homes were demolished and orchards
were razed.

The Revolutionary Court sentenced 148 males to death, with Saddam's
signature ratifying the order.

But there were other deaths as well -- nine people were killed during
the destruction of orchards, and many of the 399 people who had been
detained were either killed or remain missing.

Hussein, Hassan and Ramadan were charged with willful killing,
deportation or forcible transfer of population; imprisonment or other
severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental norms
of law; torture; enforced disappearance of persons, and other inhumane
acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering; or
serious injury to the body or to the mental or physical health.

Bandar was charged with willful killing by issuing the death sentences
for the 148 people.

The remaining defendants were lower-level Baath Party officials from
Dujail, who were charged with informing on residents who later died in
prison or were sentenced to death.

Hussein is also in the middle of another trial involving the 1988 Anfal
campaign, the government offensive in the country's Kurdish region.
Hussein is charged in that case with genocide.

I,m not sure this action is good, expect severe reaction from the
people.

It is wrong to have kept Sadman Insane alive this long. They should have
marched him out of the rathole and shot him.

Well surprise surprise and a verdict just in the nick of time before
elections eh??

Why don't they just behead him like the good o'l days. That seems like
more fun. They can play soccer with his head. LOL

Hey not many trees in Texas humm but I have a good strong BIG one in my
front yard no cost hell would even find a horse for him to sit on for
the moment. Awww make my day. And have 1800 pound test mule tape that
they use to pull underground cable with that there is no chance it
would break before it did its job and was cut down.

Humm sell tickest $2.oo apiece and donated to the to help out to the
needy kids foundations since they are our future.

Hell Yeah!

Verdict is in and the law has spoken BUT do you really think it will be
carried out??

Well...as you know I am against the Death Penalty, under any
circumstances...!

"Hussein, Hassan and Ramadan were charged with willful killing,
deportation or forcible transfer of population; imprisonment or other
severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental norms
of law; torture; enforced disappearance of persons, and other inhumane
acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering; or
serious injury to the body or to the mental or physical health."

Ironically, this is EXACTLY the kind of law Bush is trying to push
through at home because of this "holy war" ..take a look at Guantanamo
and Abu Gharib. Most of these prisoners are Iraqi, so it begs the
question, How can these ppl be considered illegal combatants when all
they were doing was defending their country against ppl they percieved
to be invaders as opposed to the liberators Bush wants the world to
believe they are?
Since when did it become illegal for a ppl to defend their country
agianst the US, or any other Western power?

to S.H.,,,and his hinch-men,I have two words for y'all...

well...
bye...

W~/War III on it's way???

got my own guns too...

Since you,re canadian animal...why don,t you see to your counties
business.

How about we stick Saddam on a rocket aimed at the Iranian nuke plant
just like that movie Dr. Strangelove. Yeee!Haaaaa!

i'm not really big into the news and stuff so i say.. take them all out
back with one shot to the head lol

re: chubbycherubpoet

I think that he and his laywers will drag it out as long as possible

Its weird how things workout, i mean didnt we help put him power in the
first place(i might have my facts wrong, so correct me if i do)

what if all of them but three are guilty???
sorry saw an openeing.
after world war two the big one, thy had the war crimes trials in
Nurenburg Germany They lasted 9 months and i think most knew that some
were probably guilty..... Head nazi types.
athey sentenced some o them to be hung, and others got prison
sentences. anyoue remember how many were hung? i dont.
any way they "accidently" dropped them wrong and so they died a nice
slow stranglin instead if the old drop and snap.
The official report of the executions went something the like this....
"
The hastily built gallows allowed an insuffient drop, and the condemned
died a slow one blah blah blah.... "

.....hastily built? ... took em 9 months to try em,
..ANY Us Army Ececutioner PROBABLY WOULD KNOW HOw TO EXECUTE a
person....
i always thought it probably wasent an accident...
might have even been a a conspiricy. blah blah... blah...
very nicely done.

Joseph Goebbels was sentence to be hung too. But he took some poison he
had hidden. I wonder if they knew he had it and looked the other way or
Goebbels was just clever enough to conceal it.

wasent Gobells it was Goering. Herman Goering.

Shit your write Herman the German.LOL

yupper. we still have the trivia question. actually could be a 2 parter.
how many sentenced? how many executed? thinking 12 and 11. was around
there.