Updating a previous post from today, the breaking news is that Saddam Hussein, the Human WMD, will be executed tonight. Prior word was that by the end of January Hussein would be executed if his appeal fell through.It did and the execution was still on. Earlier today it was reported that his sentence would be carried out within days and this evening it is leaked that Hussein will swing from the gallows tonight (Early Saturday in Iraq).
BAGHDAD, Iraq - By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA (Associated Press Writers) The official witnesses to Saddam Hussein's impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime's atrocities.
The Iraqi government readied all the necessary documents, including a "red card" _ an execution order introduced during Saddam's dictatorship. As the hour of his death approached, Saddam received two of his half brothers in his cell on Thursday and was said to have given them his personal belongings and a copy of his will.
Najeeb al-Nueimi, a member of Saddam's legal team in Doha, Qatar, said he too requested a final meeting with the deposed Iraqi leader. "His daughter in Amman was crying, she said 'Take me with you,'" al-Nueimi said late Friday. But he said their request was rejected.
An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. Also to be hanged at that time were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, the adviser said.
The time was agreed upon during a meeting Friday between U.S. and Iraqi officials, said the adviser, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
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