Saddam Hussein's last living letter

Call me a Kaypo (I really am). Almost anything from the possibility that Christ loved Judas to the STIGMATA (people who display signs of cruxification - the flesh opens up into bleeding wounds) investigations. By the time, you read this post, Saddam Hussein would have been turned over to the Iraqis for his execution by 31st Dec. Saddam's final moments will be videotaped by the Iraqi government. "We will video everything," National Security adviser Mouffak al Rubaie said. "All documentation will be videoed. Taking him from cell to the execution is going to be videoed, and the actual execution will be documented and videoed." Another Iraqi government official says efforts are under way to carry out the death sentence by the end of this month, indicating that they want to do the execution before Eid, which coincides with the New Year. It's not clear whether the videotape will be broadcast on Iraqi television. Saddam Hussein's last letter in arabic, urged Iraqis to embrace "brotherly coexistence" and not to hate U.S.-led foreign troops in a goodbye letter posted on a Web site the day after Iraq's highest court upheld his death sentence and ordered him hanged within 30 days. A top government official, meanwhile, said Saddam's execution could proceed without the approval of Iraq's president, meaning there were no more legal obstacles to sending the deposed dictator to the gallows. On 31st Dec 2007 One of Saddam's attorneys, Issam Ghazzawi, confirmed to The Associated Press in Jordan that the Internet letter posted on Wednesday was authentic, saying it was written by Saddam on Nov. 5 – the day he was convicted by an Iraqi tribunal for ordering the 1982 killings of 148 Shiite Muslims in Dujail. "I call on you not to hate because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking," said the letter, which was written in Arabic. "I also call on you not to hate the people of the other countries that attacked us," it added, referring to the invasion that toppled his regime nearly four years ago. Against the backdrop of sectarian killings that have dragged Sunni Arabs and Shiite Muslims into civil warfare over the past year, Saddam urged his countrymen to "remember that God has enabled you to become an example of love, forgiveness and brotherly coexistence." But he also voiced support for the Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency, saying: "Long live jihad and the mujahedeen." He urged Iraqis to be patient and rely on God's help in fighting "against the unjust nations." Ah! His words carry thorns of bitterness, eh? Saddam said he was giving his life for his country as part of that struggle. "Here, I offer my soul to God as a sacrifice, and if he wants, he will send it to heaven with the martyrs," he said. Despite his calls for conciliation among Iraqis, Saddam's legacy is brutal. He put suspected foes to death without trial, oppressed Kurds and Shiites, waged war on Iran and twice fought U.S.-led armies. He left an impoverished nation now gripped by sectarian bloodshed and an insurgency against the U.S. presence. Even after Saddam's execution, his co-defendants are likely to continue trial. Saddam is in the midst of another trial, one in which he's charged with genocide and other crimes during a 1987-88 military crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq. An estimated 180,000 Kurds died during the operation. That trial was adjourned until Jan 8th 2007! Cardinal Renato Martino, Pope Benedict XVI's top prelate for justice issues and a former Vatican envoy to the United Nations, said Saddam's execution would punish "a crime with another crime" and expressed hope that the sentence would not be carried out. In the interview with Rome daily La Repubblica, Martino reiterated the Vatican's staunch opposition to the death penalty, saying that life must be safeguarded from its beginning to its "natural" end. "The death penalty is not a natural death. And no one can give death, not even the State," he said. Where I got my news: The Associated Press What I thought When one is hanged, it is intended for the neck to break. Though it doesn't happen this way all the time. In rare occasions the spine/neck doesn't snap, and the prisoner dies of strangulation/lack of blood flow to the brain. The throat would then be crushed as well in certain instances, and he/she would drown in their own blood. Death by hanging isn't always quick, and can sometimes be messy! Comment from friend #1: Focus on catching Bin Laden and get Bush out of office! Suffice it to say that he has the LOWEST APPROVAL RATING OF ANY PRESIDENT, EVER. My comment - And Ayman Sabawitoo! Ayman is Saddam's half-brother's son who played an active role in sustaining terrorism by providing financial support, weapons and explosives to terrorist groups. I am not sure who else is in the U.S. list of the 55 most-wanted members of Saddam's ousted regime but I hope they are at least behind bars! In the tape-recorded interview, Ford was critical not only of Mr. Bush but also of Vice President Dick Cheney — Ford's White House chief of staff — and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who served as Ford's chief of staff and then his secretary of defense. "I don't think I would have gone to war," Ford told Woodward a little more than a year after President Bush launched the invasion. And on New York Daily News, Ford was quoted as sating,"We shouldn't have put the basis on weapons of destruction. That was a bad mistake. Where does he (Bush) get his advice?" Comment from friend #2: If this whole thing isn't about Religion, why does every article have to quote the Vatican. My comment - The Vaticans are actually very powerful people. Even the royalties of the British Royal Family often seek their advice on matters pertaining to whether to attend blah blah in where-where. The FreeMasons are also one of the powerful "secret societies" who rule the world behind many countries' rulers. In my personal opinion, Bush is just a puppet. I believe he himself is controlled by forces "greater" than himself. Battle of the forces!