Witness: Hussein's last words mock Shiite cleric

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Defiant to the end, Saddam Hussein mocked Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr moments before he was hanged, a witness said Saturday.
The Iraqi government executed Hussein as punishment for his conviction of a 1982 massacre, more than two decades before he was toppled by a U.S.-led invasion.
A video of the execution broadcast on Al-Iraqiya state television showed Hussein, dressed in a black overcoat, being led into a room by three masked guards. (Watch noose placed around Hussein's neck -- viewer discretion advised http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/...icon_video.gif)
A witness, Iraqi Judge Munir Haddad, said that one of the executioners told Hussein that he 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, Haddad said one of the executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.
Hussein, a Sunni, mockingly uttered one last phrase before he died: "Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said.
The judge said Hussein appeared "totally oblivious to what was going on around him. I was very surprised. He was not afraid of death."
But Haddad's description of Hussein's demeanor before his execution contrasts markedly with another witness, Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie. "He was a broken man," al-Rubaie said. "He was afraid. You could see fear in his face." (Watch al-Rubaie describe Hussein's final moments http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/...icon_video.gif)
The former dictator refused to wear a hood as he was hanged, al-Rubaie said.
Al-Rubaie said Hussein's death came in "a blink of the eye" after his executioner activated the gallows just after 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET).
"This dark page has been turned over," al-Rubaie said. "Saddam is gone. Today Iraq is an Iraq for all the Iraqis, and all the Iraqis are looking forward. ... The [Hussein] era has gone forever."
In a written statement, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called "on all men of the past regime and manipulated by it to reconsider their stances. The door is still open for every person who does not have blood of innocents on his hands to join in rebuilding of Iraq, which will be for all Iraqis without exceptions or discrimination." (Watch what Hussein's death could mean in Iraq http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/...icon_video.gif)
Burial place undecided

Hussein, 69, will be buried somewhere in Iraq "in the next few hours," although talks are still under way to decide where, al-Rubaie said.
"We will wash him, wrap him, put him in an Islamic coffin, someone from the Islamic community will read a death prayer over him and he will be buried with old Islamic rituals," he said.
Video broadcast by the Shiite Iraqi channel Biladi TV showing what appeared to be Hussein's body wrapped in a white shroud with only his head exposed. (Watch as Hussein's body lies in a shroud -- viewer discretion advised http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/...icon_video.gif)
Al-Rubaie said that while the execution was carried out with due respect to Hussein -- and following "all international and Islamic standards" -- some witnesses and the executioner could not resist celebrating by dancing around the body after the hanging.
"It's a very ordinary action of a number of people -- some of them officials, some of them ordinary people, even the executioner as well because they have lost their loved ones -- their fathers brothers sisters -- this is a natural reaction," he said. (Full story)
"I would like to make this day a day of unity of Iraqis," al-Rubaie said. "We need to forgive, forget the past now and look forward and progress toward stability, security and prosperity of Iraq."
The execution took place outside the heavily fortified U.S. Green Zone, al-Rubaie said, and no Americans were present.
"It was an Iraqi operation from A to Z," he said. "The Americans were not present during the hour of the execution. They weren't even in the building."
He added that "there were no Shiite or Sunni clerics present, only the witnesses and those who carried out the actual execution were present."
On Al-Arabiya television, al-Rubaie said the execution took place at the 5th Division intelligence office in Qadhimiya.
In the United States, Iraqi-Americans celebrated in the street in Dearborn, Michigan, home to the nation's largest concentration of Iraqis. (Watch Iraqi-Americans dancing, kissing and singing in the streets http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/...icon_video.gif)
Bush: Hussein received fair trial

White House deputy press secretary Scott Stanzel said President Bush was asleep when the execution took place and was not awakened. The president had been briefed by national security adviser Stephen Hadley before retiring and was aware the hanging was imminent, Stanzel said.
The White House issued a statement praising the Iraqi people for giving Hussein a fair trial.
"Fair trials were unimaginable under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule," Bush's statement read. "It is a testament to the Iraqi people's resolve to move forward after decades of oppression that, despite his terrible crimes against his own people, Saddam Hussein received a fair trial." (Full story)
Hussein was hanged for his role in the 1982 Dujail massacre, in which 148 Iraqis were killed after a failed assassination attempt against the then-Iraqi president. (Watch what happened in Dujail http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/...icon_video.gif)
Two other co-defendants -- Barzan Hassan, Hussein's half-brother, and Awad Bandar, the former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court -- were also found guilty and had been expected to face execution with Hussein, but al-Rubaie said their executions were postponed "because we wanted to have this day to have an historic distinction."
Legal efforts fail in U.S. court

Friday evening, a U.S. district judge refused a request to stay the execution.
Attorney Nicholas Gilman said in an application for a restraining order, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, that a stay would allow Hussein "to be informed of his rights and take whatever action he can and may wish to pursue."
Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld the former dictator's death sentence, called Gilman's filing "rubbish," and said, "It will not delay carrying out the sentence," which he called "final."
CNN's Aneesh Raman, Arwa Damon, Ryan Chilcote, Sam Dagher, Jomana Karadsheh and Ed Henry contributed to this report.

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伊拉克巴格达(CNN)访问--嚣张到结束, 萨达姆嘲笑什叶派教士萨德尔的铁杆追随者前的最后时刻,他吊死,证人说星期六. 伊拉克政府处决侯赛因作为其定罪处罚的1982大屠杀 超过二十年倒台前被美国为首的入侵. 处决录像播放基地iraqiya国家电视台显示侯赛因身着黑色外套, 走进一个房间被三名蒙面卫士. (缳手表放在左右侯赛因脖子--观众酌宜)证人、伊拉克法官穆尼尔哈达德, 其中的刽子手说,他曾告诉侯赛因摧毁伊拉克 而引发争论,多名政府官员出席了房间. 作为缳收紧左右侯赛因的脖子, 哈达德表示其中的刽子手喊道:"万岁muqtada萨德尔",指的强大反美什叶派宗教领袖. 胡笙,逊尼派,嘴上调侃死前最后一句话:"萨德尔的铁杆追随者,"哈达德说. 法官说侯赛因出现"完全漠视身边发生什么事. 我觉得很奇怪. 他不怕死. " 但哈达德的描述胡申风范处决之前他与另一名证人明显反差,伊拉克国家安全顾问阿拉铝鲁巴伊. "他是一名男子,打破"基地鲁巴伊说. "他很害怕. 你可以在他的脸上看到恐惧. " (观看铝鲁巴伊形容胡笙的最后时刻)前独裁者拒绝戴头罩他吊死, 铝鲁巴伊说. 铝鲁巴伊说侯赛因去世进来"瞬间"启动后绞刑刽子手清晨6时许(星期五晚上10时内皮). "这黑暗的一页已经翻开了"基地鲁巴伊说. "萨达姆已经过去了. 今天的伊拉克是伊拉克所有伊拉克人 和所有伊拉克人都期待::[胡笙]时代已经一去不复返了. " 在书面声明中, 伊拉克总理努里马利基称为"一切政权过去的男人和操纵它重新考虑其立场. 大门仍然敞开每个人对无辜者的鲜血没有双手一起重建伊拉克 所有伊拉克人将无例外或歧视. " (观其侯赛因的去世可能意味着伊拉克)安葬地点未定侯赛因69 将被安葬在伊拉克某处:"在未来几个小时,"虽然谈判还在进行,决定凡 铝鲁巴伊说. "我们将他洗净,裹他,把他放在一个伊斯兰棺木, 有人从死亡的伊斯兰社会将宣读祈祷他将被安葬在他和老伊斯兰教礼仪,"他说. 视频播放伊拉克什叶派biladi电视频道放映什么似乎是胡笙的身体笼罩在一片白色笼罩,只有头部暴露. (看着胡笙的身体就是一层--观众酌宜)基地鲁巴伊说,虽然执行进行尊重胡笙--随着"所有与伊斯兰国际标准"--目击者和刽子手忍不住各地欢庆舞后悬体. "这是一个很普通的行动,一批人--其中有些官员 他们有的普通人 就连刽子手也是因为失去了亲人--自己的父亲兄弟姐妹--这是一种自然反应,"他说. (全部故事)"我要统一这一天一天的伊拉克人,"基地鲁巴伊说. "我们要原谅,忘记过去、现在和期待走向稳定、安全和繁荣的伊拉克" 执行外发生重要塞美国绿区,基地鲁巴伊说,没有美国人赞成. "这是伊拉克的行动从一到Z,"他说. "美国人不在场时执行. 甚至连在门内. " 他补充说:"有没有什叶派或逊尼派神职人员出席, 只有那些证人进行实际执行在场. " 关于阿拉伯电视台铝鲁巴伊说处决发生在五师情报处qadhimiya. 在美国,伊拉克裔上街庆祝迪尔伯恩、密歇根、家国内最大浓度伊拉克人. (观看伊拉克美人跳舞,在街上唱歌、接吻)布什: 胡笙接受公平审判,白宫副新闻秘书斯科特stanzel说,布什总统在睡梦中被处决,未发生吵醒. 总统已听取国家安全顾问赖斯的副手退休前,他知道悬在即, stanzel说. 白宫发表声明,称赞侯赛因给伊拉克人民受到公正审判. "公正审判萨达姆下难以想象的暴虐统治,"布什的声明. "这是一份遗书给伊拉克人民的决心向前,经过几十年的压迫, 尽管他对自己人民的恐怖罪行,萨达姆获得公平审判. " (委曲)胡笙被吊死其作用1982以内屠杀 伊拉克人丧生,其中148暗杀企图失败后,针对当时的伊拉克总统. (观看发生什么以内)两名同案被告--巴赞哈桑、侯赛因30哥哥、新华社Awad先生, 前革命法庭首席法官--也被裁定有罪,将面临处决与侯赛因 但铝鲁巴伊说,他们推迟了处决"因为想有一天能有这个历史性的区分" 美国法院在法律上周五晚努力失败,美国地方法院法官拒绝请求暂缓执行. 吉尔曼说,检察尼古拉申请禁止令,在美国地方法院提起星期五在华盛顿 侯赛因说,将允许留"被告知他的权利,并采取一切可能的行动,并希望他能搞" 穆尼尔哈达德,法官对上诉法院维持在前独裁者的死刑, 吉尔曼称的存档"垃圾",并表示"不会拖延履行判决",他叫"最后" 美国有线新闻电视网aneesh拉曼,在Damonarwa、瑞安chilcote快递dagher,jomanakaradsheh署和亨利促成这个报告.

中国日报网环球在线消息：据法国媒体12月30日报道，伊拉克前总统萨达姆被执行死刑后，国际社会反应不一。美国和伊朗对萨达姆处以绞刑表示欢迎,而不少欧洲国家都声明反对。　　萨达姆执行绞行时，美国总统布什正在他的德州农场睡觉。随后他发表声明称对萨达姆的判决公正，是建立伊拉克民主的里程碑。
　　伊朗副外长发表声明称：“在萨达姆死刑执行中，伊拉克人民是胜利者。当萨达姆倒下时，他们胜利了。”
　　萨达姆执行死刑后，欧洲各国尽管对萨达姆在伊拉克犯下的罪行表示谴责，但反对将萨达姆处以死刑。反对美军2003年发动伊拉克战争的俄罗斯对萨达姆的死讯表示遗憾。(小桥)http://cimg2.163.com/cnews/newimg/arc_i.gif