This is huge. Iraqi Tyrant Saddam Hussein has been executed in Iraq at sunrise this morning.
Shortly before the execution, Saddam’s hat was removed and Saddam was asked if he wanted to say something, al-Askari said.
“No I don’t want to,” al-Askari, who was present at the execution, quoted Saddam as saying. Saddam repeated a prayer after a Sunni Muslim cleric who was present.
“Saddam later was taken to the gallows and refused to have his head covered with a hood,” al-Askari said. “Before the rope was put around his neck, Saddam shouted: `God is great. The nation will be victorious and Palestine is Arab’.”
Even in death the wily old Baathist shows understanding of the three hot buttons which rule the hearts and minds of the region- Islam/ism, Arab nationalism/pride and Palestine. An basic understanding of which the invading powers have thoroughly underestimated.
Ironically his execution takes place on the day of the Muslim “Eid-ul-Adha.” On this day Muslims are required to sacrifice an animal or give to the poor in commemoration of Abraham’s willingess to sacrifice his son.
So now Saddam has been sacrificed on the altar of the new Iraqi justice system.
It is a boost for an embattled imperial power struggling to extricate itself from the increasingly uncontrollable quagmire the Iraqi adventure has become.
Let’s hope Hussein’s blood sacrifice helps absolve some of the bloodbath that the Iraqi disaster invasion has descended into.
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