Saddam sentenced to death

[CBright7831 0]

Having seen footage of it, they don't seem to be very interested in stalling, I think it's a 'let's get this done before someone turns up' backyard thing.

 

Clips are flying around the Internet.

Any clips of the door dropping?

[GreatWhiteNope 0]

Amateur footage (with sound) of the full hanging:

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521

[CBright7831 0]

Is that the only video?

 

Am I sick for watching this?

[Guest Princess Leena]

Yes.

 

I want good video of this.

[Danville_Wrestling 0]

It's just weird for me to occupy a world where this guy doesn't exist anymore. He's just been a fixture of U.S. foreign policy for so long that his death just seems odd. Guess the U.S. needs to find another bad guy (not that it already doesn't have one with Ahmadinejad).

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Welcome to Hell, Hussein!

[SuperJerk 0]

I hope everybody missed the riveting interview Nancy Grace did with Scott Peterson's sister that aired while this was going on last night.

 

I really wish that Headline News would just go back to reporting the fucking news already.

[bobobrazil1984 0]

what if saddam is the one going to heaven and we're all going to hell, ever thought of that!? HUH!?! EVER THOUGHT OF THAAT!?!?!

 

*runs and jumps out 10 story window*

[Ginger Snaps 0]

I can't watch this video tonight. If I do, it will give me nightmares. Even though I'm glad he's dead.

[Guest Vitamin X]

The video is incredibly lame. There's no actual coverage of the act of hanging itself, only coverage before and after it.

 

 

CONSPIRACY?!

[Lil' Bitch 0]

^ WTF? You see Saddam fall into the gallows, the shitty shaking blackout, and then him still hanging. It was obviously recorded by a phone, you can tell from the shitty quality. The shitty camera work happened probably because the guy recording it wasn't supposed to.

[Zorin Industries 0]

The new footage gives a whole different take on the events and not a postive one. The excutioners were chanting pro-shiite militia slogans at him before he was hung, it makes it look like victors justice by the Shia majority. Its not the thing to help quell violence in Iraq, if anything it almost made Saddam look like the one being wronged.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Yes.

 

I want good video of this.

 

I heard the OFFICIAL video was shot on a Sony HDCam...so it'll be in HD. That should be good enough!

[Special K 0]

There's no actual coverage of the act of hanging itself, only coverage before and after it.

What did you want? Here's the part you missed:

 

*Saddam shits his pants*

 

Dean Venture: Ewww! I didn't know they... Ew!

Brock Samson: Yeah, they never show that part on TV.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I wanted to see the part where the noose crushes his larynx and snaps his neck, with his eyes closing suddenly in a permanent sleep.

[Special K 0]

Sorry, his eyes stayed open.

 

On the plus side, he's dead!

 

Fucker killed his own family, Jaysis.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Just heard a story about some 10 year old kid killing himself after seeing the video. Nice job, media.

[Special K 0]

Don't mean to be cruel, and I'm not in favor of the various beheadings/hangings/jumpings that the media revels in, but if you hang yourself because Saddam died, you're a stupid fucking twat.

 

If you put a gun in your mouth because Kurt Cobain did: You're just a stupid little shit who can't tell right from wrong!

 

I didn't know Saddam Hussein was dead until i read it. But the nexw thing I read was three articles asking if his hanging should be public. Generally, I just think that's sort of morbid and sick. Fucker's dead. Good. Get on with it.

 

 

more Ovaltine please?

[Gary Floyd 0]

Bobby Peru, where have ya been?

 

Also, you het thumbs up for the Venture Brothers quote.

[Special K 0]

Oh, been around.

 

Seriously cheesala, Ovaltine? Are you now the Wesley Willis of CE?

 

"America is crap and Maggie Thatcher is ruining this country. Burger King have it your way."

 

 

Bloody Tories.

-=-=-=-=-=Doug

[vivalaultra 0]

Yeah, the 10 year old that killed himself mimicking the hanging lived in Webster, TX...like...5 miles from my house. Here's the article from the Houston Chronicle.

 

10-year-old apparently tried to mimic event he'd seen on TV

 

 

By RUTH RENDON

Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

 

 

A 10-year-old boy who apparently was mimicking the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accidentally hanged himself on New Year's Eve, authorities said.

 

Webster police Lt. Tom Claunch said officers were called to an apartment in the 800 block of NASA Parkway about 7:30 p.m. on Sunday and found the boy dead.

 

Sergio Pelico's mother told police he had watched a report on Saddam's death on a Telemundo news broadcast before he hanged himself, Claunch said.

 

"It appears to be accidental," he said of the boy's death. "Our gut reaction is that he was experimenting."

 

The Harris County Medical Examiner's Office said results of the boy's autopsy are pending.

 

As Webster police continued their investigation, family and friends gathered for a memorial service Wednesday for Sergio.

 

His uncle, Julio Gustavo, questioned why television news had to broadcast the former Iraqi dictator's death.

 

Saturday, one day after Saddam's execution, Sergio watched the news on TV with another uncle and asked what led to the former leader's demise, Gustavo said.

 

"His uncle told him it was because Saddam was real bad," Gustavo said outside the activity center of the Webster apartment complex where the memorial was being held. "He (Sergio) said, 'OK.' And that was it."

 

Gustavo said Sergio's mother left for work the afternoon of Dec. 31. Sergio and other youngsters were being watched by an uncle while other parents were preparing food for a New Year's party, Gustavo said.

 

At one point, one of the children noticed Sergio was gone and went to his bedroom, where he was found dead.

 

Webster police were called to the apartment. The boy had tied a slipknot around his neck while on a bunk bed, police said.

 

Gustavo said his nephew was a happy child who was very curious. The boy was a fifth-grader at Clear Lake City Elementary School, he said.

 

 

Pakistan incident

 

"I don't think he thought it was real," Gustavo said of Saddam's hanging. "They showed them putting the noose around his neck and everything.

 

"Why show that on TV?"

 

The video of Saddam's execution also apparently influenced a 9-year-old boy in Pakistan. Agence France-Presse reported the boy hanged himself from a ceiling fan while re-enacting Saddam's death with the help of his 10-year-old sister, authorities said.

 

California-based clinical psychologist Edward Bischof said Sergio may have been "modeling" or mimicking behavior he saw on television that he found interesting or exciting.

 

"I would think maybe this kid is trying something that he thinks fun to act out without having the emotional and psychological maturity to think the thing through before he acts on it," Bischof said.

 

He said there have been other cases where children were hurt or hurt others while acting out wrestling, fighting or extreme sports they saw on television. Children of Sergio's age often do not realize the danger of mimicking such behaviors until it's too late, Bischof said.

 

"Saddam Hussein was (shown) standing there with a noose around his neck probably a dozen times in an hour" on cable television, he said.

 

"This is a real case where TV appears to be a stimulant."

 

Parents should monitor what kids watch and make sure they talk to their children about what they are observing in order to explain it to them, Bischof said.

 

"What a tragedy for the family," Bischof said. "It must be just heartbreaking."

 

 

Neighbors mourn

 

Gustavo said he would encourage parents to not let their children watch the TV news if it is violent.

 

Sergio's death, Gustavo said, has been especially hard on his mother, Sara Pelico DeLeon, and his father, Celso Sontay, who lives in New Jersey.

 

Investigators learned Sergio had been upset that his father had not given him a Christmas present but had given his younger brother a gift. Police, however, do not believe it led the child to take his life.

 

Wednesday evening about 40 people crowded into the Waterford Apartments activity center to pay their respects.

 

A sobbing Sara DeLeon sat in a chair in front of her son's open casket as mourners hugged her and patted her on the shoulder. The white casket was surrounded by flowers.

 

A few feet away, Sontay thanked family and friends for attending the service.

 

Over the door was a black bow made out of a trash bag. Pictures of Sergio were taped to the door and on a wall.

 

Gustavo said relatives are struggling to get the money necessary to send the body to Guatemala for burial.

 

Stephanie A. Serrano of Crespo Funeral Home said her office would be visiting with the Guatemalan consulate's office today to make final arrangements for returning the body.

 

Chronicle reporter Lindsay Wise contributed to this report.

 

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That's just a terrible tragedy.

[SuperJerk 0]

"I don't think he thought it was real," Gustavo said of Saddam's hanging. "They showed them putting the noose around his neck and everything.

 

"Why show that on TV?"

 

"And everything" my ass. What fucking channel had that part???

[Guest RayCo]

Worst. Hangman. Ever. That was pathetic, it's a shame Albert Pierrepoint isn't around nowadays/Saddam wasn't executed along time before now because I make that 1 minute 38 and seconds, and thats only from the start of the recording. Pierrepoint has the record of 7 seconds, no dout he would have been flown over their to do the extra special job. What on earth took them so long? Amateurs.