Saddam Execution
December 29, 2006 6:33 PM Subscribe
"You're all really f****d now!" Larry King just announced that the real execution could take place within the next half hour. Now we just wait and see if hell breaks loose.
This post was deleted for the following reason: no offense, but this post totally sucks.
You take it on faith, you take it to heart....the waiiiiting is the haaaardest paaaart.
posted by Diskeater at 6:42 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by Diskeater at 6:42 PM on December 29, 2006
For once I agree with keswick. This post is horrible.
posted by bob sarabia at 6:44 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by bob sarabia at 6:44 PM on December 29, 2006
Riverbend:
Why make things worse by insisting on Saddam's execution now? Who gains if they hang Saddam? Iran, naturally, but who else? There is a real fear that this execution will be the final blow that will shatter Iraq. Some Sunni and Shia tribes have threatened to arm their members against the Americans if Saddam is executed. Iraqis in general are watching closely to see what happens next, and quietly preparing for the worst.posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 6:44 PM on December 29, 2006
This is because now, Saddam no longer represents himself or his regime. Through the constant insistence of American war propaganda, Saddam is now representative of all Sunni Arabs (never mind most of his government were Shia). The Americans, through their speeches and news articles and Iraqi Puppets, have made it very clear that they consider him to personify Sunni Arab resistance to the occupation. Basically, with this execution, what the Americans are saying is "Look- Sunni Arabs- this is your man, we all know this. We're hanging him- he symbolizes you." And make no mistake about it, this trial and verdict and execution are 100% American. Some of the actors were Iraqi enough, but the production, direction and montage was pure Hollywood (though low-budget, if you ask me).
That is, of course, why Talbani doesn't want to sign his death penalty- not because the mob man suddenly grew a conscience, but because he doesn't want to be the one who does the hanging- he won't be able to travel far away enough if he does that.
sweet jesus. i was really hoping mefi's better side would show here. pooh.
posted by brina at 6:45 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by brina at 6:45 PM on December 29, 2006
jeez ... come on, let's do this right ... for one thing, you could have linked to the live web cam
posted by pyramid termite at 6:46 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by pyramid termite at 6:46 PM on December 29, 2006
The first ten people to post about this should get weeklong timeouts. After that, lifetime bannings!
This is so far outside the "best of the web" that it's hardly even newsfilter. It's OMG thing happened! (or is about to happen, in this case), let's chat about it! Followed by the sort of gossipy bullshit and bluster that makes a chatfilter AskMe look like award-winning FPP material.
posted by Eideteker at 6:46 PM on December 29, 2006
This is so far outside the "best of the web" that it's hardly even newsfilter. It's OMG thing happened! (or is about to happen, in this case), let's chat about it! Followed by the sort of gossipy bullshit and bluster that makes a chatfilter AskMe look like award-winning FPP material.
posted by Eideteker at 6:46 PM on December 29, 2006
in all seriousness, this is a godawful fpp ... a simple dignified announcement that it has happened should do, not some youtube southpark video
posted by pyramid termite at 6:48 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by pyramid termite at 6:48 PM on December 29, 2006
Seriously, this is in the top 5 worst posts ever. You wanted so badly to be the first person to post about it that you give us a one link post to a fucking southpark video? Your internet privileges should be revoked.
posted by bob sarabia at 6:51 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by bob sarabia at 6:51 PM on December 29, 2006
that person riverbend rubs me up the wrong way. enough with the idiot conspiracy theories already.
posted by dydecker at 6:51 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by dydecker at 6:51 PM on December 29, 2006
This could be just what I need since Prison Break doesn't air again until January 22nd.
posted by premiumpolar at 6:52 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by premiumpolar at 6:52 PM on December 29, 2006
An adviser to Iraq's prime minister said Saddam Hussein's execution will occur in Baghdad at 9 p.m. today central standard time.
The time was agreed upon during a meeting between U.S. and Iraqi officials, the adviser said. The U.S. will hand over Saddam to Iraqi authorities shortly before the execution.
Also to be hanged at that time are Saddam's half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court.
Official witnesses began gathering in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone Friday night Baghdad time as the government readied the execution orders.
There have been conflicting reports of when the hanging would occur.
posted by nickyskye at 6:53 PM on December 29, 2006
The time was agreed upon during a meeting between U.S. and Iraqi officials, the adviser said. The U.S. will hand over Saddam to Iraqi authorities shortly before the execution.
Also to be hanged at that time are Saddam's half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court.
Official witnesses began gathering in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone Friday night Baghdad time as the government readied the execution orders.
There have been conflicting reports of when the hanging would occur.
posted by nickyskye at 6:53 PM on December 29, 2006
Saddam? How did we build up this street corner thug into the 21st century version of Hitler?
Who cares when he gets hanged? Nothing will change when he's dead, just like nothing changed when he was deposed and again when he ws caught. Saddam isn't part of the equation anymore.
posted by Pastabagel at 7:00 PM on December 29, 2006
Who cares when he gets hanged? Nothing will change when he's dead, just like nothing changed when he was deposed and again when he ws caught. Saddam isn't part of the equation anymore.
posted by Pastabagel at 7:00 PM on December 29, 2006
only in iraq, and i'm not sure if it's meant to be live ...
watching al-jazeera english, which just cut to an iraqi shi'ite channel, no news yet
posted by pyramid termite at 7:01 PM on December 29, 2006
watching al-jazeera english, which just cut to an iraqi shi'ite channel, no news yet
posted by pyramid termite at 7:01 PM on December 29, 2006
Tag it and bag it, baby. (This post.)
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 7:03 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 7:03 PM on December 29, 2006
It's OMG thing happened! (or is about to happen, in this case), let's chat about it!
This post was going to happen. Might as well happen here.
posted by Cyrano at 7:04 PM on December 29, 2006
This post was going to happen. Might as well happen here.
posted by Cyrano at 7:04 PM on December 29, 2006
this is the worst execution ever.
this is what it must have been for my grandfather when he had to listen to the radio to hear ventriloquism.
if saddam was so bad, hang him, televise it, teach kids not to be a shitty.
posted by tsarfan at 7:05 PM on December 29, 2006
this is what it must have been for my grandfather when he had to listen to the radio to hear ventriloquism.
if saddam was so bad, hang him, televise it, teach kids not to be a shitty.
posted by tsarfan at 7:05 PM on December 29, 2006
cyrano, it's a link to a southpark video ... this is a travesty
posted by pyramid termite at 7:06 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by pyramid termite at 7:06 PM on December 29, 2006
Ok, this post did remind me that if there was ever a time to watch Fox "news", this is it.
posted by 2sheets at 7:06 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by 2sheets at 7:06 PM on December 29, 2006
meta
(I flagged it but I couldn't move on.)
posted by Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson at 7:07 PM on December 29, 2006
(I flagged it but I couldn't move on.)
posted by Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson at 7:07 PM on December 29, 2006
al jazeera still not sure
posted by pyramid termite at 7:10 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by pyramid termite at 7:10 PM on December 29, 2006
"The Americans want him to be hanged respectfully," al-Nueimi said.
posted by swell at 7:10 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by swell at 7:10 PM on December 29, 2006
James Brown, Gerald Ford, Sadaam Hussein...wow, what a week.
posted by Diskeater at 7:11 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by Diskeater at 7:11 PM on December 29, 2006
Mission Accomplished.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 7:11 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by monju_bosatsu at 7:11 PM on December 29, 2006
Hey, look, the World Trade Center rebuilt itself!
What?
posted by eriko at 7:12 PM on December 29, 2006 [1 favorite]
What?
posted by eriko at 7:12 PM on December 29, 2006 [1 favorite]
Matt, we need the goddamned img tag. It's the only thing that can save these threads!
posted by secret about box at 7:12 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by secret about box at 7:12 PM on December 29, 2006
James Brown, Gerald Ford, and Sadaam Hussein walk into this bar in heaven...
posted by 2sheets at 7:13 PM on December 29, 2006 [2 favorites]
posted by 2sheets at 7:13 PM on December 29, 2006 [2 favorites]
But some of his old partners in genocide remain at large.
posted by homunculus at 7:13 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by homunculus at 7:13 PM on December 29, 2006
bets on when the video will be available on the internets?
posted by killy willy at 7:14 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by killy willy at 7:14 PM on December 29, 2006
the . has just jumped the shark
or the stingray
WHERE ARE THE MODERATORS?!?
posted by wendell at 7:15 PM on December 29, 2006
or the stingray
WHERE ARE THE MODERATORS?!?
posted by wendell at 7:15 PM on December 29, 2006
Still waiting for all hell to break loose.
posted by IronLizard at 7:17 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by IronLizard at 7:17 PM on December 29, 2006
I'd change my name to Ned if it meant this would just END.
posted by wendell at 7:18 PM on December 29, 2006 [1 favorite]
posted by wendell at 7:18 PM on December 29, 2006 [1 favorite]
it's a link to a southpark video ... this is a travesty
Because a link to CNN, MSNBC or Fox News would be better?
Prediction: come 02/04/2007, we're going to have a Superbowl post. It'll probably be an one link post to the results (and I have no leg to stand on in this regard.)
These posts happen. This is what we do. I ain't going all Clayton Williams on your ass telling you to sit back and take it, but there's other dying lights more worthy of raging against.
posted by Cyrano at 7:19 PM on December 29, 2006
Because a link to CNN, MSNBC or Fox News would be better?
Prediction: come 02/04/2007, we're going to have a Superbowl post. It'll probably be an one link post to the results (and I have no leg to stand on in this regard.)
These posts happen. This is what we do. I ain't going all Clayton Williams on your ass telling you to sit back and take it, but there's other dying lights more worthy of raging against.
posted by Cyrano at 7:19 PM on December 29, 2006
Because a link to CNN, MSNBC or Fox News would be better?
DUH!
posted by pyramid termite at 7:22 PM on December 29, 2006
DUH!
posted by pyramid termite at 7:22 PM on December 29, 2006
There has been speculation that Hussein would be executed before Eid Al-Adha -- a holiday period that means Feast of the Sacrifice, celebrated by Muslims around the world at the climax of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
There is a belief that the execution could be soon because the law does not permit executions to be carried out during religious holidays.
Eid begins Saturday for Sunnis and Sunday for Shiites and lasts for four days. Hussein is a Sunni Muslim. ...
If the hanging does occur on Saturday, it will "most likely take place between 6 a.m. and noon," he said. Those hours translate to 10 p.m. Friday and 4 a.m. Saturday in the Eastern United States.
posted by nickyskye at 7:24 PM on December 29, 2006
There is a belief that the execution could be soon because the law does not permit executions to be carried out during religious holidays.
Eid begins Saturday for Sunnis and Sunday for Shiites and lasts for four days. Hussein is a Sunni Muslim. ...
If the hanging does occur on Saturday, it will "most likely take place between 6 a.m. and noon," he said. Those hours translate to 10 p.m. Friday and 4 a.m. Saturday in the Eastern United States.
posted by nickyskye at 7:24 PM on December 29, 2006
VigilanteFilter
Remember that movie where Joe Hero spares the villians life even though he won the fight to the death?
Neither do I. Apparently it never happened.
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:24 PM on December 29, 2006
Remember that movie where Joe Hero spares the villians life even though he won the fight to the death?
Neither do I. Apparently it never happened.
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:24 PM on December 29, 2006
It would have saved everyone an awful lot of trouble if Rumsfeld had managed to poison him when they were palling around in the 80s, instead of giving him weapons and reassuring him that the US didn't care if he used of WMD.
This frenzy, these after-the-fact announcements, are quite reminicent of the day Paul Bremer fled Baghdad. We tried to spin it like it was some grand historical triumph to hand over power to the Iraqi government, even though it was haphazard and seemed more like fleeing than any kind of orderly transition.
I'm with cyrano. This post isn't so bad.
posted by ibmcginty at 7:25 PM on December 29, 2006
This frenzy, these after-the-fact announcements, are quite reminicent of the day Paul Bremer fled Baghdad. We tried to spin it like it was some grand historical triumph to hand over power to the Iraqi government, even though it was haphazard and seemed more like fleeing than any kind of orderly transition.
I'm with cyrano. This post isn't so bad.
posted by ibmcginty at 7:25 PM on December 29, 2006
Better kill him soon, before he testifies to what he knows in future cases...
posted by Balisong at 7:26 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by Balisong at 7:26 PM on December 29, 2006
US President George W Bush was evacuated from his ranch in Crawford after a tornado warning was issued in central Texas, officials said. Mr Bush, his wife Laura and their two dogs Barney and Miss Beazley were taken by armoured car to a tornado shelter on the property, the White House said.
Bush, however, did not make it to the storm shelter in time. He was hit on the head by a flying windowpane and was magically transported over the rainbow to the wonderful land of Oz.
posted by ColdChef at 7:31 PM on December 29, 2006
Bush, however, did not make it to the storm shelter in time. He was hit on the head by a flying windowpane and was magically transported over the rainbow to the wonderful land of Oz.
posted by ColdChef at 7:31 PM on December 29, 2006
oops. i accidently favorited this instead of flagging it :(
posted by keswick at 7:31 PM on December 29, 2006
posted by keswick at 7:31 PM on December 29, 2006
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