par SABBEGH » Sam 30 Déc 2006, 04:32
Arab TV stations report Hussein hanged
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, according to two Arabic language media outlets. Earlier, an Iraqi judge told CNN Hussein would be hanged before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, (10 p.m. Friday ET). The former president was convicted of crimes against humanity in connection with the killings of 148 people in Dujail.
par CAFRICAIN » Sam 30 Déc 2006, 04:36
par CAFRICAIN » Sam 30 Déc 2006, 04:39
par CAFRICAIN » Sam 30 Déc 2006, 04:42
par SABBEGH » Sam 30 Déc 2006, 04:55
CAFRICAIN a écrit:La cause est entendue, l'armée américaine et l'avocat de Saddam viennent de confirmer à l'instant l'éxécution!
Hussein executed, sources confirm
Saddam Hussein was hanged Saturday for crimes committed in a brutal crackdown during his reign, U.S. and Iraqi sources tell CNN. The former Iraqi dictator spent his last years in captivity after his ruthless Baathist regime was toppled from power by the U.S.-led coalition in 2003.
par SABBEGH » Sam 30 Déc 2006, 05:01
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Saddam Hussein, the former dictator of Iraq who spent his last years in captivity after his ruthless Baathist regime was toppled from power by the U.S.-led coalition in 2003, has been executed -- hanged for crimes during a brutal crackdown during his reign.
Hussein was hanged before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, at about 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET), according to one of Hussein's lawyers.
Hussein -- whose name conjures lengthy war, government autocracy and widespread cruelty -- was found guilty in the killings of 148 people in Dujail, a mostly Shiite town north of Baghdad, after a 1982 attempt to assassinate him.
At the time of his death, he was being tried for genocide in the killings of up to 100,000 Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign against Kurdish rebels -- a campaign that included the use of poison gas against Kurdish towns in northern Iraq.
Hussein was the object of an intense manhunt after the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq in March 2003 with the aim of overthrowing his regime. The Bush administration and Britain claimed Iraq was harboring weapons of mass destruction and constituted a threat to their national security. After the invasion, Hussein disappeared from public view, surfacing only in tapes released to Arab television networks.
On December 13, 2003, coalition forces found Hussein tucked away in an underground bunker at a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit. His capture was one of the biggest coalition achievements in what many people say has been an ill-fated, mistake-filled expedition.
Hussein was born into a poor family on April 28, 1937, in a rural town outside Tikrit. He grew up without his biological father. His mother's brother [and Hussein's future father-in-law], Khairallah Talfah, an Iraqi army officer and Arab nationalist, was a major influence in Hussein's early years.
Having moved to Baghdad as a teenager, Hussein joined the Arab Baath Socialist Party while a secondary school student. In 1958 he spent six months in prison for his political activities.
The next year Hussein and several others attempted to assassinate Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, who came to power in 1958 in a military coup. Hussein was shot in the leg during the botched attempt, but he escaped and fled to Iraq. He was sentenced to death in absentia February 25, 1960, for his role in the plot.
After studying in Egypt, Hussein returned to Iraq in February 1963 following the Ramadan Revolution, in which Baath Party members overthrew Kassem. The following months of political turmoil culminated in another coup, and Hussein was arrested again on October 14, 1964.
He was elected deputy secretary-general of the Baath Party while in prison.
According to the prewar Iraqi News Agency's resume of Hussein, he escaped from jail in 1967. In July 1968 he played a leading role in a coup that led to the ascension of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, a fellow Baath member and Hussein's cousin, as Iraq's new ruler.
As vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council -- in effect, al-Bakr's second-in-command -- Hussein promoted many progressive ideas in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He built a reputation as a progressive, effective politician.
"Saddam accumulated power over a period of 10 to 12 years," said Mark Bowden, a best-selling author who profiled Hussein's daily life in a May 2002 Atlantic Monthly article. "When you have evidenced considerable charm [and] an ability to get things done, even very idealistic and ambitious people begin to side with you."
The other side of Hussein was demonstrated in 1979, when al-Bakr stepped down -- officially because of illness -- and Hussein took over as president.
With a camera recording the event, Hussein told a room full of top officials that he had uncovered a conspiracy to overthrow the government. One by one he named the alleged traitors. Sixty-eight men were taken away, and 21 were executed.
"He essentially betrayed many of those people who had relied on him," Bowden said.
In 1980 Hussein entered a war with Iran that would last eight years and, according to some estimates, cost more than a million lives, before ending in a stalemate.
The killings in Dujail occurred in 1982 in the context and the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war.
The United Nations alleged Hussein ordered Iraqi forces to use mustard gas and nerve agents on Iranian soldiers and that in 1988 he unleashed chemical weapons on rebellious Kurds in northern Iraq.
Two years later he ordered troops and tanks to invade Kuwait, Iraq's oil-rich neighbor to the south. A U.N.-backed, U.S.-led coalition routed Iraq's forces and forced them out of Kuwait in early 1991.
Though Iraq emerged worse off from both the stalemate with Iran and the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Hussein declared victory after each.
Hussein's resume, posted on the Web site of Iraq's U.N. mission before the war, claimed he led Iraq in confronting "the aggression launched by 33 countries led by the U.S. [as] Iraq stood strong against the invasion, maintaining its sovereignty and political system."
par SABBEGH » Sam 30 Déc 2006, 05:41
صدام أعدم شنقا
أكدت مصادر رسمية عراقية أن حكم الإعدام نفذ في الرئيس العراقي المخلوع صدام حسين قبل الساعة السادسة صباح اليوم بتوقيت مكة المكرمة، وأن عملية الإعدام جرى تصويرها.
وصدر بيان في بغداد يؤكد تنفيذ الإعدام بحق صدام وأخيه غير الشقيق برزان التكريتي وعواد البندر.
وكان مسؤول عراقي مقرب من رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي قال في وقت سابق إن حكم الإعدام سينفذ بصدام حسين قبل الساعة السادسة صباح اليوم بتوقيت مكة المكرمة.
وأضاف أن هذا التوقيت جرى الاتفاق عليه في اجتماع بين مسؤولين عراقيين وأميركيين. وقال إن الجانب الأميركي سيسلم الرئيس المخلوع إلى الجانب العراقي قبل وقت قصير من إعدامه.
وكان العضو في محكمة التمييز العراقية منير حداد قد أعلن أن كافة الإجراءات قد اكتملت من أجل تنفيذ حكم الإعدام بحق صدام حسين في قضية الدجيل ولم تتبق إلا عملية التنفيذ. وفي تصريحات للجزيرة أشار حداد إلى أن صدام حسين في طور الاستلام من قبل الحكومة العراقية، وفق تعبيره.
وأوضح أن هيئة الرئاسة العراقية غير معنية بتنفيذ الحكم وليس بوسعها تخفيفه أو تعديله، وفي رده على سؤال للجزيرة عن إعلانه عن إعدام الرئيس العراقي المخلوع اليوم السبت وتعارضه مع عطلة عيد الأضحي قال عضو محكمة التمييز العراقية إن العيد في العراق يبدأ الأحد.
par JALLOUL » Sam 30 Déc 2006, 06:29
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