Breaking news

[phebus]

A judge in Iraq has ruled that Sadam will be executed either today, or tomorrow at the latest.

[RitcheyRch]

Just heard that on the news as well.

[deltarat]

Pay Perview?

[phebus]

Pay Perview?
Package it with the UFC fight tomorrow, and promise a death in the middle, and voila, the biggest pay per view event of all time. :D

[460 jus getn it]

The fact that they are going to hang him, PRICELESS...........................

[deltarat]

:D :D Package it with the UFC fight tomorrow, and promise a death in the middle, and voila, the biggest pay per view event of all time. :D
:D :D

[moneypit]

Im sure it will make its way TV via AL Jazeera then to youtube.com.

[Hardly Satisfied]

It won't happen, something will come up like allways, It would be cool to watch

[RitcheyRch]

They should do Pay Per View and take the proceeds and give that money to the families of fallen soldiers.

[JB in so cal]

They had a doctor on the news this AM describing exactly what will happen as the rope tightens. Sounded too good for him.:devil:

[abraman1326]

They should hand his ass over to the mob, and let them go to work on him. I love the line in Payback where it's said that they'll give him a transfusion to keep him alive during the torture. Make it last 2 weeks. Hangin is too good for him, but at least it's something...
BRA

[That Guy]

Is Indigo Joes doing anything special in honor of this event like drink specials, etc.....:D
On another note, Rick are you heading to IJ for the Rose Bowl game....we were thinking about going if there were going to be some fellow HB'ers there...
Thread officially unjacked....back to killing one of the worst monsters of all time:mad: :mad:

[phebus]

Is Indigo Joes doing anything special in honor of this event like drink specials, etc.....:D
On another note, Rick are you heading to IJ for the Rose Bowl game....we were thinking about going if there were going to be some fellow HB'ers there...
Thread officially unjacked....back to killing one of the worst monsters of all time:mad: :mad:
Not positive if we are going to I.J.'s, or Desert Bar. We may have to join you guys, and in the killing theme, kill a few beers. :D

[That Guy]

Not positive if we are going to I.J.'s, or Desert Bar. We may have to join you guys, and in the killing theme, kill a few beers. :D
Let us know...we're out here and will be around all weekend.....:) :)

[msc5195]

Just read that he had been turned back over to the Iraqis. "U.S. officials have informed former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's lawyers in Jordan that he is no longer in U.S. military custody, the lawyers told CNN today. The transfer of Hussein from U.S. to Iraqi custody represents perhaps the final step before his execution. He faces death by hanging for the killings in the Iraqi town of Dujail nearly 25 years ago." I wonder will they really kill him or let him escape? Will his loyal followers kidnap him? Will they stage his death? Will the US be there to witness the hanging first hand? It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

[cjordan]

All I can say is hopefully they use the "short drop" method vs the "long drop"....lots more suffering vs instantaneous....a public stoneing would be more fitting followed by burning him at the stake.....

[beerjet]

Death is too good for the POS.

[SHOTKALLIN]

he had a choice of EXILE. He chose DEATH. HANG EM HIGH!:D :D :D

[OKIE-JET]

....a public stoneing would be more fitting followed by burning him at the stake.....
Now thats somethin I'd spend fitty nine bucks to see...:D

[IN2-IN2MX]

Just read that he had been turned back over to the Iraqis. "U.S. officials have informed former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's lawyers in Jordan that he is no longer in U.S. military custody, the lawyers told CNN today. The transfer of Hussein from U.S. to Iraqi custody represents perhaps the final step before his execution. He faces death by hanging for the killings in the Iraqi town of Dujail nearly 25 years ago." I wonder will they really kill him or let him escape? Will his loyal followers kidnap him? Will they stage his death? Will the US be there to witness the hanging first hand? It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
I wondered that also. I hope there are no shinanigans going on and he just dies! :o

[Froggystyle]

I wonder will they really kill him or let him escape? Will his loyal followers kidnap him? Will they stage his death? Will the US be there to witness the hanging first hand? It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Yeah, he could end up just hanging with Elvis in the tabloids...

[NoCal NoBoat]

I'd vote for:
a) let him run a couple of laps around the courtyard, like Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, then shoot him, or:
b) gas him with the same stuff he used on the Kurds

[Jbb]

Maybe we should give him his country back....He's better at keeping them animals under his thumb than we are...

[HCS]

yahoo is saying with in the hour,i bet he cry's like a bitch,it should be on tv:D
His laywers appealed to the U.S. court of appeals to not have the U.S. release him to Iraq custody today.

[HocusPocus]

An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. The time was agreed upon during a meeting Friday between U.S. and Iraqi officials, said the adviser, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
:D

[spectratoad]

:D Wouldn't it be nice if our death row convictions moved this quickly???? Guilty, see you back in a few hours for the fitting of your necklace.

[RitcheyRch]

http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstories_story_363042708.html
The official witnesses to Saddam Hussein's impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime's atrocities.
The Iraqi government readied all the necessary documents, including a "red card" — an execution order introduced during Saddam's dictatorship. As the hour of his death approached, Saddam received two of his half brothers in his cell on Thursday and was said to have given them his personal belongings and a copy of his will.
Najeeb al-Nueimi, a member of Saddam's legal team in Doha, Qatar, said he too requested a final meeting with the deposed Iraqi leader. "His daughter in Amman was crying, she said 'Take me with you,'" al-Nueimi said late Friday. But he said their request was rejected.
An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. Also to be hanged at that time were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, the adviser said.
The time was agreed upon during a meeting Friday between U.S. and Iraqi officials, said the adviser, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
"Saddam will be handed over shortly before the execution," the official said. The physical transfer of Saddam from U.S. to Iraqi authorities was believed to be one of the last steps before he was to be hanged. Saddam has been in U.S. custody since he was captured in December 2003.
Al-Nueimi said U.S. authorities were maintaining physical custody of Saddam to prevent him from being humiliated before his execution. He said the Americans also want to prevent the mutilation of his corpse, as has happened to other deposed Iraqi leaders.
"The Americans want him to be hanged respectfully," al-Nueimi said. If Saddam is humiliated publicly or his corpse ill-treated "that could cause an uprising and the Americans would be blamed," he said.
Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld Saddam's death sentence, said he was ready to attend the hanging and that all the paperwork was in order, including the red card.
"All the measures have been done," Haddad said. "There is no reason for delays."
As American and Iraqi officials met in Baghdad to set the hour of his death, Saddam's lawyers asked a U.S. judge for a stay of execution.
Saddam's lawyers issued a statement Friday calling on "everybody to do everything to stop this unfair execution." The statement also said the former president had been transferred from U.S. custody, though American and Iraqi officials later denied that.
Al-Maliki said opposing Saddam's execution was an insult to his victims. His office said he made the remarks in a meeting with families of people who died during Saddam's rule.
"Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him, and there will be no review or delay in carrying out the sentence," al-Maliki said.
State television ran footage of the Saddam era's atrocities, including images of uniformed men placing a bomb next to a youth's chest and blowing him up in what looked like a desert, and handcuffed men being thrown from a high building.
With U.S. forces on high alert for a surge in violence, people registered to attend the hanging gathered in the Green Zone before they were to go to the execution site, the Iraqi official said.
Those cleared to attend the execution included a Muslim cleric, lawmakers, senior officials and relatives of victims of Saddam's brutal rule, the official said. Aides to al-Maliki were waiting for U.S. representatives to arrive at his office to set the hour for the execution, the official said.
He did not disclose the location of the gallows.
Raed Juhi, spokesman for the High Tribunal court that convicted Saddam, said documents related to the execution would be read to Saddam before the execution. The documents included the red card, al-Maliki's signed approval of the sentence and the appeal court's decision.
On Thursday, two half brothers visited Saddam in his cell, a member of the former dictator's defense team, Badee Izzat Aref, told The Associated Press by telephone from the United Arab Emirates. He said the former dictator handed them his personal belongings.
A senior official at the Iraqi defense ministry also confirmed the meeting and said Saddam gave his will to one of his half brothers. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Saddam's lawyers later issued a statement saying the Americans gave permission for his belongings to be retrieved.
An Iraqi appeals court upheld Saddam's death sentence Tuesday for the killing of 148 people who were detained after an attempt to assassinate him in the northern Iraqi city of Dujail in 1982. The court said the hanging should take place within 30 days.
There had been disagreements among Iraqi officials in recent days as to whether Iraqi law dictates the execution must take place within 30 days and whether President Jalal Talabani and his two deputies had to approve it.
In his Friday sermon, a mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf called Saddam's execution "God's gift to Iraqis."
"Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done! He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighboring countries and he is responsible for mass graves," said Sheik Sadralddin al-Qubanji, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, known as SCIRI, a dominant party in al-Maliki's coalition. "Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam."

[CBadDad]

Suppose to happen at 7p Pacific time tonight.
This is gonna be good!

[RitcheyRch]

Just saw that on another news website. Wonder how long before the video ends up on youtube.com??
Suppose to happen at 7p Pacific time tonight.
This is gonna be good!

[BRAWNY]

CNN --says within the hour this POS will die.
lets all hope he does.

[JB in so cal]

tic-toc, tic-toc, tic-toc...

[BajaMike]

Minutes away according to Fox News....