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The man was executed in middle of his prayer. All of this looks like a revenge killing then justice.
Agreed it does look like sectarian justice but Saddam actually intoned the shahada twice and was cut off at Mohammad pbuh during second recital
"There is no God but Allah and I testify that Muhammad pbuh is the messenger of God. There is no God but Allah and I testify that Muhammad pbuh" - at which point he was cut off as the trapdoor opened with a loud crash and he fell.
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Add to that the timing of his execution, fell on Eid-ul-Adha, I believe this was why it was rushed, Even Sadaam deserved some dignity, in his final moments.
What is significant is WHO he was turned over to. Given the bad press Al Sadr got from the American side, I find it most strange they would give up Saddam to his men. Strange...
The most blatant attempt to stoke sectarian fires I've seen to date.
This may also be a way to secure a Kurdish state as a frontline, pro-American outpost. Turkey would be the only impediment to this goal, but then if America could secure their entry into the EU...
Needless to say, at best this is completely mishandled...at worse, it's engineered.
Saddam did'nt do anything to shiahs and kurds in his country that they would'nt have done to him if they had a chance.The way to power in iraq and for that matter in much of the middle east is through war.If it was shiahs and kurds who were getting supressed under Saddam then under a Shiah leader it would have been sunnis getting suppressed as its going to happen now when u.s leaves iraq.
I wonder when the monkeys in Washington are going to be hanged for their crimes against humanity? I fihd it laughable that the American terrorists can't even implement a proper government in Iraq, but meanwhile have implemented a joke of a judicial system which has brought a man to execution.
is that your defence is it? use a line like that in court and you'd most likely end up where saddam is. infact it wouldnt be surprising if you'd borrowed those exact lines from his lawyers.
[quote] the four masked executioners stepped forward. Short, tubby and dressed in leather jackets, they looked more like Al-Qaeda killers in an amateur terrorist video than those responsible for carrying out the sentence of death on a former head of state.
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That's a pretty damning indictment on what the world is now saying was more a sectarian execution, than a judicial sentence being carried out.
hmm...thats interesting, why would they think that? was it the leather jackets? or because they were too short? or perhaps it was thier tubbyness that aligns them to alqaeda?
They also mention the masks they were wearing like the Al Qaida terrorists. Or maybe it was the clandestine filming of the execution released soon after?
^ you will do down like pork chops at a bar trying to be a good man in a place like iraq.that was not a defence for saddam but thats how you survive in iraq.
the masks are understandable so they arent recognised by saddams loyalists. i think if it was anything like al qaeda, they would have chopped his head off on live tv and then paraded it in the streets.
Whilst calling out 'muqtada' was not dignified or right by any means, why they reacted as such is wholly understandable. Both Muqtada's father (Muhammad sadiq al sadr), his father- in- law and two of his brothers were assassinated by saddam in the 80's and 90's. Muqdata was the living symbol of resistance to an attempted wipe out of his family. Hence calling out his name was a was merely a verbal backlash to a whole generation of oppression from saddam.
That said however, it is not even significant compared to what they were exposed to. To have him tortured, his body mutilated and buried in a mass grave unknown to saddams family....all they had to do was hand him to the iraqi public, and i assure you that would have been sectarian justice in all its glory.
But thankfully, by letting his loved one say goodbye, giving him an islamic burial, letting supporters visit his grave, providing tight security around tikrit, protecting his body from the iraqi public, and not resorting to the same barbaric standards saddam used on them, the iraqis have by far proven themselves much more civilised and humane than their oppressors. This is anything but a sectarian justice.
Why in the world does it matter what he "claimed"? Does murdering hundreds of thousands of innocents make him a good Muslim? Or was it his invasion of Kuwait? Was it the way he oppressed the shias for decades that made him a good Muslim? Does someone get a free pass for claiming to be a Muslim?