Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity.
The ousted president, visibly shaken, shouted out "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Greatest) and "Long live the nation!"
Four guards took him away with his hands held behind him after the sentence was read.
Saddam Hussein's half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim, has also been sentenced to death by hanging.
Earlier the Iraqi court cleared Baath Party official Mohammed Azzawi Ali of involvement in the execution of 148 Shiite villagers.
Chief Judge Raouf Adbul-Rahman called for defendant Azzawi to be brought into court first.
He was a Baath Party official in Dujail and is one of the lesser-known defendants.
The order in which the defendants were being called indicated Saddam would be last.
The chief judge also ordered former US Attorney-General Ramsey Clark expelled from verdict session.
Crowds gathered in the afternoon in the Sadr City district of east Baghdad outside the offices of one of Saddam's most implacable foes, radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
They demanded Saddam's execution, and while the rest of Baghdad was locked down by a total curfew, the Shi'ite population of Sadr City went about their business as normal in an area controlled by Sadr's Mahdi Army militia.
Meanwhile, 260 kilometres north of the capital in the Sunni town of Dawr, near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, the mood was completely different.
According to a spokesman for the local joint security coordination centre, scores of Sunni demonstrators gathered to demand that Saddam be exonerated.
"They chanted 'With our blood, with our souls we redeem you Saddam'," said police spokesman Hamed el-Duri.
During his 24-year reign of terror, Saddam favoured his Sunni minority for top government jobs and persecuted the Shiite majority and the Kurds.
More than three and a half years after the president was deposed in a US-led invasion, the country is more violent and divided than ever, and today's verdict is expected to increase tensions.
"Saddam lived a hero and will die as a hero. The court was set up by his rivals, who became the judges in it. It is a historical farce," said Sheik Al-Nadawi, head of the Baigat group of tribes to which Saddam belongs.
Wasn't he responible for fellow muslims deaths? or does tht not matter because they belonged to another sect of islam?
I feel you have misunderstood me, I am not saying 'I cant believe it' as though I want this man to be alive or anything.
I think he was from the sources I have read.
Anyhow, the reason I said it, was not because of whether I liked him or not, the reason I said it, was because since I was a kid, I can remember seeing him, in an authorative state, on the news and so forth, right upto now, shouting and arguing in court, to me, it felt hard to believe that this man was on trial and could be put to death, for the simple fact that he has remained so steadfast in his resistance.
That is why I found it hard to believe, thats all.
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Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity
This isn't shocking to me. I always assumed they will hang him anyway regardless of his crimes. Don't forget it was the British/Americans who armed him to carry out the "crimes against humanity". Now they are one's who are indirectly hanging him.
Iraq is in a mess at the moment because of illegal occupation. The Americans and the British are happy they will use saddam's death charge as pretext to suck more oil from Iraq, etc.
I pray to Allah (SWT) to improve the situation of the people of Iraq and the ummah of our prophet Muhammad (SAW).
I feel you have misunderstood me, I am not saying 'I cant believe it' as though I want this man to be alive or anything.
I think he was from the sources I have read.
Anyhow, the reason I said it, was not because of whether I liked him or not, the reason I said it, was because since I was a kid, I can remember seeing him, in an authorative state, on the news and so forth, right upto now, shouting and arguing in court, to me, it felt hard to believe that this man was on trial and could be put to death, for the simple fact that he has remained so steadfast in his resistance.
That is why I found it hard to believe, thats all.
Oh sorry
Isn't it ironic that rumsfield all knew of his crimes when he was 'friends' with the americans, but they did nothing to intervene. But they now sit in the white house acting all high and mighty, dishing out 'democracy' (refer to elections 2000 - 2004 fraud)
that they themselves don't have in the USA. to oil based countries.
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Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity
This isn't shocking to me. I always assumed they will hang him anyway regardless of his crimes. Don't forget it was the British/Americans who armed him to carry out the "crimes against humanity". Now they are one's who are indirectly hanging him.
Iraq is in a mess at the moment because of illegal occupation. The Americans and the British are happy they will use saddam's death charge as pretext to suck more oil from Iraq, etc.
I pray to Allah (SWT) to improve the situation of the people of Iraq and the ummah of our prophet Muhammad (SAW).
I hate to say this, but the situation will only get much worse before it gets better!
Ėk Gusā Alhu Mėrā
The One Lord, the Lord of the World, is my God Allah.
Dhan Guru Arjan Dev Mahraaj Ji!
Kal Meh Bėḏ Atharbaṇ Hū Nā Kẖuḏā Alhu Bẖa.
In the Dark Age of Kali Yuga, the Atharva Veda became prominent; Allah became the Name of God.
As a kurd, and a muslim. I cant help but to say he deserves it (should I say I'm also happy?). He is a murder and a rapist. Both are punishable by death.
I believe they chose to hang him because it is considered humiliation.
I am not saying that Saddam was right in killing so many people, but I find it so hypocritical that America want him to die for crimes against humanity when they have been the instigators of even worse crimes in Iraq.
War crimes has a big meaning to it. Behind the mist of double standards and corrupt media, many of our world leaders today are all equally as guilty as Saddam for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
hmmm interesting....i knew it was coming someday...i mean what's the point keeping him in proson anyway...thy aint going to let him free so they might as well hang him......but i dont know...since i actually expected it, i dont really feel anything ...its like...blank
Wasn't he responible for fellow muslims deaths? or does tht not matter because they belonged to another sect of islam?
He was, but because they were demanding a WHOLE nother state seperate from Iraq, and since the kuwait conflict...you know what happened. Also, he was responsible for educational reforms in Iraq and was rewarded an literacy award from a world wide education program. What happened to him was a true crime. Sure he was a dictator and madae mistakes, such as the Iran-Iraq war. But calling him the next hitler? He's so ignorantly portrayed in American media, people actually making fun of him and boasting about his death. He deserved a life sentence not a hanging. If Iraqis actually want justice, they should turn to the US whom supplied him with weapons in the first place.
I wonder if they'll televise it. If they do, it will be one hell of a ratings-puller, that's for sure.
And to take an even more cynical slant, funny that he was sentenced three days before the elections, eh?
True it is 3 days before election time. But this is not a major election year. Voter turnout will be low in most States that are not having a Guberantoral election and we will see little changes in Washington except for a few new Senators. There seems to be only one election that will be news worthy and that is the Senatorial race where a Muslim is running.
the guy was secular.No that's not the reason I hate him.He forced two men to divorce their wives so he can marry those women.Killed his own son-in-law.
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.....insha'Allah some day
...but i dont know...since i actually expected it, i dont really feel anything
...its like...blank
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