General Chat

Just saw this on the AP news-wire. Seems he is no longer in American custody.

Well all i can say is Happy 2007 everyone Lilxx

They keep coming up with conflicting stories Carol.....I think that if they are going to do it, the sooner the better, for Saddam, and the rest of us......not sure though how I feel about hanging....

I am dreading the next can of worms to be opened... Bob

ive just watched the news ,and must have missed itx

Well the sooner the better I think. No point in dragging out the inevitable. xx

I agree with Bob There will be repurcussions once saddam is executed....people will want revenge for his death. I feel more innocent lives will be lost all round Elaine x

I agree with Bob too.....I cannot see any way around this one.....that is why I think if it has to be, it is better to be over quick.....then we know what we will face next....

I also agree with Bob. They have already threatened reprisals against US concerns....and I,m sure that will include British ones too. However, it,s not either of us that will be doing the hanging, is it?

Saddam Hussein 'in Iraqi hands' Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been handed over to the Iraqi authorities ahead of his execution, his lawyers say they have been told. 'The American side has notified us that they have handed over the president to the Iraqi authorities,' lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi said, quoted by Reuters. This follows intense speculation about the timing of the execution, with some reports that it is imminent. Neither the US or Iraqi authorities have confirmed the handover. The time and location of the hanging has not been made public - and may be revealed only after the former president is dead to avoid civil disruption and unrest. Saddam Hussein could be hanged at any time over the next four weeks, although one judge quoted by the Associated Press said he would die on Friday or Saturday. US forces in Iraq are braced for any backlash following the execution, defence department officials said. An appeal against Saddam Hussein's execution for the killings of 148 Shias in Dujail in the 1980s failed earlier this week. He was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November. 'Dignity of victims' The former Iraqi leader has been in US military custody at Camp Cropper in Baghdad. Earlier on Friday his lawyers said they had been asked to dispose of Saddam Hussein's personal effects. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said there would be no delay in carrying out the death sentence. 'No-one can oppose the decision to execute the criminal Saddam,' Mr Maliki was quoted by AFP as saying. 'Those who reject the execution of Saddam are undermining the dignity of Iraq's martyrs.' Another lawyer told the BBC that Saddam Hussein's half-brothers Sabawi Ibrahim and Watban Ibrahim - also in prison - were taken to visit him on Thursday. A trial in a second case, genocide against Kurds, continues against Saddam Hussein. source BBC news online

It was said on the news yesterday that thousands of Iraqi people had applied to be the hang man. I hope that is remembered after the event and that his people did have the final say and action. It must take a lot of hatred, hurt or anger against a person to be able to even consider doing it. May they feel that this will go some way towards the possibility that they can now live in some sort of peace. Jacky :-)

my OH and I have just been looking at sky news as another of his fellow lancs soldiers has been killed, He should go but I dread to think of the repercussions, after what Graeme told me about what they learnt of him in the army training he should rot, Caz xxx

I can think of a couple more heads of government's that should join him Roy

Bulletin just saying within a few hours. Hanging is too good for him, he should rot in jail. Sunny R

Saddam is no more!

hes dead!!!!!!!???

Yes!! It,s official

WOH! i don't know what to say...just gonna put sky news on............

Mrs P, If you can get CNN, it,s on there.

got it...they are celebrating'''''''''''''''!!!!!!!!!!!!!!