What did Timothy McVeigh’s Executioners Shout?
Witness: Hussein’s last words mock Shiite cleric - CNN.com
A witness, Iraqi Judge Munir Haddad, said that one of the executioners told Hussein that the former dictator had destroyed Iraq, which sparked an argument that was joined by several government officials in the room.
As a noose was tightened around Hussein’s neck, one of the executioners yelled “long live Muqtada al-Sadr,” Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.
This is why there will always be questions about the legitimacy of Saddam Hussein’s trial and the Iraqi “sovereign” government’s decision to execute him. Can’t we get anything right in this war?
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