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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 04:42 PM
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Libya to erect Saddam gallows statue
TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libya is reportedly to build a statue showing Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader executed in Baghdad on Saturday, on a gallows.

It did not say where the statue would be placed.

The official JANA news agency added the Saddam statue will be put up at the same time as another representing Omar al-Mukhtar, the Libyan resistance leader who fought the Italian military occupation and who was executed in 1931, also by hanging.

After Saddam's execution, flags on official Libyan buildings were flown at half-mast and celebrations to mark Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice, were cancelled.

Saddam was sentenced to death for ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite villagers from Dujail north of Baghdad in the 1980s.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070104/wl_mideast_afp/libyasaddamexecute
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 04:49 PM
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1. And when's the Sadaam hanging toy coming out?
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 05:27 PM
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2. Saddam with a noose Pez dispenser, anyone?
:argh:
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 11:55 AM
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15. THE CHIMP GLOATS
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 06:13 PM
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3. It's already available
A small Connecticut-based company Herobuilders, has produced a mail-order doll of late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's final minutes at the gallows.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Business&loid=8.0.373521892&par=
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Say_What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 06:47 PM
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4. Sick f*cks. It really doesn't get much more twisted than that. n/t
:puke: :puke: :puke:
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 06:55 PM
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5. Welcome to America
Home of the morally bankrupt.
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Say_What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 07:21 PM
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7. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does. n/t
Peace!!
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geomon666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:23 PM
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9. Christmas '07
But will come with the kung fu grip?
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OnionPatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 06:59 PM
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6. This is just sick
WTF is wrong with people??!!!!

Good God, how can I be a member of this human race?
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 07:29 PM
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8. Why is it sick?
They critically supported Saddam Hussein, and they are commemorating him with a statue. I don't like him, but he certainly died with a modicum of dignity and showed no fear in the face of his executioners.
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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 12:44 AM
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10. I agree. He's a martyr now, and there will likely be more statues of him
Hitler wasn't a martyr, Saddam is a martyr.
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 11:25 AM
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14. Disregard
Edited on Fri Jan-05-07 11:26 AM by Tempest
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OnionPatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 03:10 PM
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16. I guess I misunderstood
I thought they were erecting the statue to celebrate the execution.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 02:06 AM
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11. Haven't we been told that Libya is now our friend
- a model Muslim nation whose dictator saw the error of his ways and knuckled under to *?
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ckramer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 05:16 AM
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12. Saddam will be remembered as a tough guy standing up to the imperialistic America
That alone makes the Middle East countries proud.
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rcdean Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 07:35 AM
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13. So Gadaffy is still crazy after all these years.
Muhamar, you are such a Bush suckup!
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