Saddam likely to be hanged within hours

[Rob]

Saddam likely to be hanged within hours


BAGHDAD, Iraq – The official witnesses to Saddam Hussein's impending execution gathered in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime's atrocities.

An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. (7 p.m. today Pacific time). Saddam and others were convicted of murder in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from an Iraqi town where assassins tried to kill Saddam in 1982.

seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003500821_websaddam29.html

Less than 1.5 hours away...

[Rob]

Arab media report Saddam executed

By Christopher Torchia and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
The Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq – The official witnesses to Saddam Hussein's impending execution gathered in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime's atrocities.

Some Arab media, including Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya and the U.S.-financed Al-Hurrah, reported about an hour before daylight Saturday (about 7 p.m. Pacific time) that Saddam had been executed. There was no confirmation from the Iraqi government.

[Rob]

UPDATE - 09:47 PM

Saddam Hussein is hanged

Saddam's death came 56 days after a court convicted him and sentenced him to death. Also hanged was his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim.

[dwells59]

I hope they aren't lying about it