The ex-Iraqian dictator Saddam Hussein, executed by hanging, died with the Qoran in his hands, without contrition and defiant
until the end. Protected by the North American authorities during the eighties, Saddam did not want to give up the safety of his allies and he resisted to being turned over to the Iraqi officials hours before being led to the hanging. Only for an instant he kept his head lowered, but he immediately raised it. Saddam arrived at the gallows, where he refused to have a hood put over his head; the Iraqipresident spoke of the injustice, the resistance, and syndicated Shiites as terrorists. The camera man filmed the
execution from a meter away and explained that Saddam died instantly; he also said that the body shook but that there was no blood or drool. Shortly after the execution, a chain of private shiite TV of Iraq spread images that, said, were of Saddam dead, wrapped in a white shroud. Only the top part of the body was uncovered, with the disarticulated head leaning to the right side. It was known that one of the four men responsible for executing the sentence provoked the ex Iraqi strong man by mentioning the name Moqtada al-Sadr, powerful shiite head of Iraq, whose father was executed by order of the ex-chief. The final resting place of one of the most powerful and feared man in the arabic world will be in his native province and next to Tikrit, the city with which Saddam's clan identified itself. With this death, will remain unfinished another judgement that followed Saddam, for the
assasination of some one hundred eighty thousand Iraqi kurds in the military campaigns of Anfal in 1987 and 1988. The execution intensified the sectarian violence in Iraq. While the state TV informed that Saddam was hanged by the same rope that was used to execute his political opponents. After subjecting the city of iraq to brutallity throughout three decades, Saddam Hussein - was condemned to death for ordering the assasination of 148 men and children as retaliation for an attempt against his life in the city of Dujail, in 1982 - died hanged by his own citizens at dawn of the 30th of this last December, in the city of Bagdad. Saddam Hussein will no longer face those who cry for justice over ethnic cleansing- with characteristics of genecide against tens of thousands of arabs in the occasion of the drying of the marshes in the south of the country, some years later. Also, because of the way that the execution of the strong man of Iraq was carried outhas filled the arab world with a feeling of rage and humiliation. Saddam hussein - a secular socialist who at twenty-two years of age attempted his first political assasination as ordered by the Baath Party - governed Iraq like a tribal leader without scruples, fed by a quota of personal violence that never recognized borders. Angry at his opponents, he subjected them to all sorts of torture and assisinations to eliminate them. He brutally curtailed all civil and political liberties of his town and violated - without contemplation - their human rights. The certain thing is that, to the margin of rejection that the death penalty stirs within us, history will judge Saddam Hussein like he indeed was: a blood thirsty tyrant.Donanfer