{"id":1530,"date":"2006-11-05T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/sadaam-found-guilty.html"},"modified":"2006-11-05T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T06:37:00","slug":"sadaam-found-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/sadaam-found-guilty.html","title":{"rendered":"Sadaam found guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/article\/0,,30000-13550448,00.html\">This<\/a> feels a little anticlimactic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Angry, shaking and defiant, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death this morning by hanging for ordering the massacre of Iraqi civilians.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nSaddam was convicted of ordering the deaths of 148 Shia men and teenage boys in the town of Dujail in 1982.<br \/>\nThe killings followed a failed assassination attempt against him and were intended to act as a grim warning to others not to oppose him.<br \/>\nThe hearing has now been adjourned.<br \/>\nSaddam refused to stand as the verdict was delivered<br \/>\nSaddam refused to stand as the verdict was delivered<br \/>\nSaddam was on trial with seven co-accused:<br \/>\n* Awad Hamed al Bander, former chief judge in Saddam&#8217;s Revolutionary Court, has been sentenced to hang<br \/>\n* Saddam&#8217;s half-brother Barzan al Tikriti, head of the feared Mukhabarat intelligence service, was sentenced to hang<br \/>\n* Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was sentenced to life in prison<br \/>\n* Three Ba&#8217;ath party officials were sentenced to 15 years in prison<br \/>\n* Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid, former Ba&#8217;ath official, given15 years<br \/>\n* Mizhar Abdullah Ruwayyid, former Ba&#8217;ath official, given 15 years<br \/>\n* Ali Dayih Ali, former Ba&#8217;ath official, given 15 years<br \/>\n* Mohammed Azawi Ali, a Ba&#8217;ath party official in Dujail, was cleared.<br \/>\nSaddam is in the middle of a second crimes against humanity trial and he is likely to appeal against the Dujail death sentence, which is likely to take two months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The wheels of justice grind slow- too slow.  I wish they would finish these trials quickly to end the Sunni&#8217;s hope that he will eventually return to power.  And I&#8217;m happy for the families of those he&#8217;s murdered.  They must be relieved that he has been sentenced to death.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/006276.htm\">Michelle Malkin<\/a> has the names of those killed and an excerpt from the trial in which Saddaam&#8217;s use of chemical weapons against the Kurds is described.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Saddaam+Hussein\" rel=\"tag\">Saddaam Hussein<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/trial\" rel=\"tag\">trial<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Iraq+\" rel=\"tag\">Iraq <\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This feels a little anticlimactic: Angry, shaking and defiant, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death this morning by hanging for ordering the massacre of Iraqi civilians. [&#8230;] Saddam was convicted of ordering the deaths of 148 Shia men and teenage boys in the town of Dujail in 1982. 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