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2006: Saddam Hussein

December 30th, 2007 Headsman

One year ago today, Saddam Hussein was hanged in “the hell that is Iraq” — his riposte to the mob scene at his gallows, transmitted worldwide by way of illicit footage shot with a cell phone.

Caution: This video contains graphic footage. You knew that already.

How it was then:

Who could follow in his footsteps?

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9 Comments Add your own

  • 1. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  October 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    [...] terrormeister Abu Nidal had hung out his shingle in Iraq, then under the control of a rising young dictator destined for the gallows himself, but who grasped the opportunist potential of backing the [...]

  • 2. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  October 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 am

    [...] Saddam Hussein [...]

  • 3. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  December 23rd, 2008 at 1:34 am

    [...] we moderns hear an echo of the general’s postwar justification for the War in the Pacific from the country that hanged him. Japan … faced considerable military threats as [...]

  • 4. ShanghaiJohnnyP  |  January 8th, 2009 at 10:08 pm

    Having Had Two Nephews Who Served In Iraq and Thankfully Are Back Home,Yes,Saddam Was An Evil and Cruel Dictator!!
    But Then Again,Weren’t They All??

    Anyway,While I’m Glad The SOB’s Dead,On The Same Hand,He Had Very Little To Do With The Horrifying Chain of Events on September 11,2001!!!

    Now,For a Little History Lesson Concerning Bush the Elder;The Younger and Saddam Hussein*(*If You Beleive Everything Bull O’Really and Scorned Vanity and The Rest of The Whole Faux Snooze Crew Tell You,Quit Reading Right Now!!
    Just Curl Up In Bed With Anal Colder’s Latest Diatribe Until You Fall Asleep and Dream of a Menage a Trois With Yourself;Ann Coulter;Laura Ingraham and Michelle Malkin!!Thank You!!).

    During The 1981-89 Presidency of”The Gipper”Ronald Reagan,As Much as He Liked To Go On TV and Claim”America Will Not Negotiate With Terrorists!!”,Behind The Scenes,The US Secretly Supported Iraq During It’s 1980-88 War With Iran!!

    And Under The Aegis of’The Colonel’Lt.Colonel Oliver North,The US Secretly Sold Guns;Ammo and’Spare Parts’to Both Iraq and Iran!!

    Not To Mention Inderectly Helping The Taliban During The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan!!!
    Granted Texas Democrat Charlie Wilson Played a Great Part In Helping The Muhajadeen in Afghanistan*(*See The Tom Hanks Movie’Charlie Wilson’s War’ For More Details)and Had Bush the Elder Heeded His advice About Afghanistan After The Fall of The Soviet Union,The Taliban Would Merely Be a Small Band of Kooks Up In The Hills!!

    Getting Back To The History Lesson:After GHW Bush Became Prez in 1989,The US Still Sold Military Equipment to Iraq Right Up Until The Invasion of Kuwait in August 1990!!!

    Then Suddenly,Saddam Hussein,Like Panama’s Manuel Noreiga The Previous December,Became”America’s Public Enemy Number One!!”.

    In Closing,Yes,I’m Glad Hussein’s Burning In Hell,But In The Long Run,Was It Worth It??
    As Far as That Goes,Why Didn’t”The Colonel”,Ollie North Go To Leavenworth For Treason Instead Of Being a Motivational Speaker;Fox News Talking Head and Born again Christian??

    Only God and The Devil Know And Theyr’e Not Telling Us anytime Soon!!

  • 5. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  January 10th, 2009 at 5:27 am

    [...] 7th, 2008 Headsman One year ago today, Sunni gunmen avenged the execution of Saddam Hussein by hanging 23 Shia hostages in Baghdad’s Haifa [...]

  • 6. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  January 10th, 2009 at 5:27 am

    [...] 7th, 2008 Headsman One year ago today, Sunni gunmen avenged the execution of Saddam Hussein by hanging 23 Shia hostages in Baghdad’s Haifa [...]

  • 7. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  January 16th, 2009 at 9:26 am

    [...] hangings belong to an earlier era, of the Ba’athist secular pan-Arab aspiration that had Hussein quashing minority national aspirations. (Though the anti-minority stance was hardly unique to [...]

  • 8. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  September 6th, 2009 at 1:20 am

    [...] the first (known) mass execution since the reign of Saddam Hussein — whose own turn at the gallows was just a few months away — 26 men and one woman were [...]

  • 9. ExecutedToday.com »&hellip  |  September 27th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    [...] 1874: John Murphy 2006: Saddam Hussein [...]

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