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Just a coincidence, or something to it?
Will it affect the outcome of US races in any way?
A verdict against Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants charged with crimes against humanity in connection with an anti-Shiite crackdown in the 1980s will be announced on November 5, a senior court official said today.
Sentences for those found guilty will be issued the same day, said chief investigating judge Raid Juhi.
The former Iraqi leader could be hanged if convicted. However, he could appeal against the sentence to a higher, nine-judge court.
His co-defendants include his former deputy, Taha Yassin Ramadan, and his half brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim.
The trial began a year ago with the eight defendants facing charges arising from the deaths of nearly 150 Shiites from the town of Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam in the town north of Baghdad.
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In big time politics there is no such thing as a coincidence. Of course it's timed to be fresh in the voters mind come election time.
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It isn't a coincidence but I don't think it'll affect a great deal. People are sick of Iraq.
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I believed it was no coincidence - the announcement will come to us on the monday before the tues election that sadaam will be hung... that'll surely energize some people to vote, right?
But, to be fair I wanted to see if others believed it too, or if it was just good old dumb luck.
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I just thought of something -
Do they execute immediately following trial in Iraq?
holy crap if they do! Imagine people watching saddam walk to the gallows on Monday 6 pm news cycle right before planning their tuesday, whether or not to vote. Could it be that made-for-tv? LMAO....
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Just a coincidence, or something to it?
Will it affect the outcome of US races in any way?
A verdict against Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants charged with crimes against humanity in connection with an anti-Shiite crackdown in the 1980s will be announced on November 5, a senior court official said today.
Sentences for those found guilty will be issued the same day, said chief investigating judge Raid Juhi.
The former Iraqi leader could be hanged if convicted. However, he could appeal against the sentence to a higher, nine-judge court.
His co-defendants include his former deputy, Taha Yassin Ramadan, and his half brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim.
The trial began a year ago with the eight defendants facing charges arising from the deaths of nearly 150 Shiites from the town of Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam in the town north of Baghdad.
Of course it's a coincidence............ ;)
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Politicians, you've gotta love 'em, they think we're all complete morons and'll swallow any old shit they tell us
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Politicians, you've gotta love 'em, they think we're all complete morons and'll swallow any old shit they tell us
everyone was wondering what the october surprise would be... imagine if it was a sadaam execution the night before elections.
Does anyone know how the iraqi justice system works? Do they hang him immediately, or is it monster appeals for years?
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whattya know... 240 scoops Yahoo.com by 2 weeks about the 'october surprise' of a sadaam verdict and death sentence coincidentally breaking here in the US, the day before our elections.
Judgment day looms for Saddam
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three years after he gave himself up to American soldiers without firing a shot, Saddam Hussein may be condemned to hang on Sunday if an Iraqi court finds him guilty of crimes against humanity.
The final act of Saddam's year-old first trial, the verdict is the high point of a historic, U.S.-sponsored experiment in international justice intended to unite Iraqis in exorcising three decades of rule by the former president, accused of mass killing and torture to keep power over Iraq's disparate peoples.
Yet the country's descent toward civil war since Saddam was overthrown has blighted proceedings. Three defense lawyers were killed, the judge quit over political interference and Iraqis, who a year ago gasped in wonder to see the former strongman in court, have lapsed into distracted indifference to his fate.
Saddam, 69, and seven co-accused have been charged with crimes against humanity for the killing of 148 Shi'ite villagers after an attempt on his life in the town of Dujail in 1982.
If convicted, Saddam faces death by hanging, a prospect Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, with some disregard for judicial independence, has said cannot come soon enough.
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Even a blind squirrel. :)
Hang em' high!
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A pre-election attack on Iran's missile batteries would help and could be justified by their recent tests. Something like Clinton's conveniently timed use of cruise missiles.
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Seriously, if his sentance is death, don't they execute him right away?
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Politicians, you've gotta love 'em, they think we're all complete morons and'll swallow any old shit they tell us
You are. And you do. Bah!
Doom disapproves.
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Seriously, if his sentance is death, don't they execute him right away?
What about gratuitous torture?
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What about gratuitous torture?
Just fine by me, but my question was serious!