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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 118302.stm
So there are several tangents we can go out on. I am very glad to see someone who shed the blood of thousands be sent to face the noose.
The legal difficulty here is that Saddam actually probably hasn't killed anyone at all. He may have ordered hundreds of thousands to their deaths, but never actually directly killed someone. Like Hitler - who killed very few (if anyone). However in my opinion it does not make any difference and while the court only found him guilty of the killings of 148, it could probably find him easily guilty of 148,000 if it was prepared to take the time and money involved.
I personally think hanging is a bit dated, a very cold way to die. Probably the last big dictator to be executed would have been Nicolea and Elena Ceausescu the dictators of Romania and that was by firing squad. That was on Christmas day 1989. Interesting that it was the 5th November (Guy Fawkes night for the UK) that he was sentenced to death on.
It really made me think hearing the sound of big fireworks all yesterday how horrible it must be to live where those bangs aren't fireworks but bombs. Just some coincidence that while the whole of Britain is going up in a bang in celebration, the country of Iraq is going up in deadly smoke with its former leader being sentenced to death. A
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I think he did really kill a couple of people. He was said to have killed a family member after they had just had some sort of family meal. I don't remember all the details. It was late 80s I believe.
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