Hang 'Em High - Sadam to be Hanged by 10PM ET

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Saddam Hussein executed by hanging in BaghdadBy Haaretz Service and AgenciesSaddam Hussein, the dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in shambles, was taken to the gallows and executed as dawn broke Saturday.

It was a grim end for the 69-year-old former leader. Despite his ouster, Washington, its allies and the new Iraqi leaders remain mired in a fight to quell a stubborn insurgency by Saddam loyalists and a vicious sectarian conflict.

Saddam was executed at a former military intelligence headquarters in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah, said Sami al-Askari, a prominent Shi'ite politician close to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The neighborhood is home to the Iraqi capital's most important Shiite shine, the Imam Kazim shrine.


AdvertisementAskari witnessed the event and said the process of Saddam's execution lasted about 25 minutes, but once he was dropped through a trap door his death was very quick.

"One of the guards pulled a lever and he dropped half a meter into a trap door. We heard his neck snap instantly and we even saw a small amount of blood around the rope," Askari said.

"They left him hanging for around 10 minutes before a doctor confirmed his death and they untied him and placed him in a white bodybag," he added.

State-funded television channel Iraqiya showed the final moments of Saddam's life but stopped short of broadcasting the actual hanging or his body.

The footage showed a group of guards dressed in civilian clothes and wearing ski masks helping Saddam up a small metal staircase where a cloth was put around his neck before stepping onto the trap door. A red metal barrier, like a witness box, surrounded the trap door in the low-ceilinged, gray concrete, cell-like room.

The hangman, wearing a beige leather jacket, placed the thick rope over Saddam's head and tightened the noose on the left side of his neck. The hangman exchanged a few words with Saddam, who nodded in return.

Hussein wore a black coat over a black V-neck jumper and a white shirt and had black trousers and black shoes. Askari said he was told to take off a woolly black hat before his execution.

Another official witness confirmed Saddam died instantly.

"He seemed very calm. He did not tremble," said the official, adding that Saddam recited the Muslim profession of faith before he died: "There is no God but God and Mohammed is his prophet."

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n2316465.shtml

Here's his final moments on tape, well up to putting the rope around his neck.

[GLBLWARMR]

DING DONG SADDAM IS DEAD.

[gr8hntr]

dont know forsure if its real , i just found it ... looks like a cellphone vid tho

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do... in+execution


and here also http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=863ce7d4a3

[h2co-pilot]

Okay, somebody else watch it and tell me if it's gross.

[RuggedH2]

Originally Posted by h2co-pilot

Okay, somebody else watch it and tell me if it's gross.

No, not gross. Not the best, but I think it's real. The google link didn't work for me, but the live link did.

[h2co-pilot]

That looks real to me! The other real camera was in the right spot for the other video. Definitely a cell phone cam. He needed to go but - Yuck!

I am so grateful to be born an American.

Their voices are scary like Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom when they start chanting before the guy takes out the hearts...... Cali MAH! Cali MAH! .....

[ssgharkness020147]

Thats ok I guess. I really wanted the media to tape the whole thing, I wanted to see a professional video. But, the cell phone video will safice.

Originally Posted by gr8hntr

dont know forsure if its real , i just found it ... looks like a cellphone vid tho

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do... in+execution


and here also http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=863ce7d4a3

[GLBLWARMR]

I am upset that they don't show him dangling with his feet a couple of feet of the floor.

[ssgharkness020147]

Where in the world is a satanic smiley when i need one.

Originally Posted by GLBLWARMR

I am upset that they don't show him dangling with his feet a couple of feet of the floor.