Libya to erect Saddam gallows statue

[Barrett808]

TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libya is reportedly to build a statue showing Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader executed in Baghdad on Saturday, on a gallows.

It did not say where the statue would be placed.

The official JANA news agency added the Saddam statue will be put up at the same time as another representing Omar al-Mukhtar, the Libyan resistance leader who fought the Italian military occupation and who was executed in 1931, also by hanging.

After Saddam's execution, flags on official Libyan buildings were flown at half-mast and celebrations to mark Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice, were cancelled.

Saddam was sentenced to death for ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite villagers from Dujail north of Baghdad in the 1980s.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070104/wl_mideast_afp/libyasaddamexecute

[chelsea0011]

1. And when's the Sadaam hanging toy coming out?

[slackmaster]

2. Saddam with a noose Pez dispenser, anyone?

:argh:

[saigon68]

15. THE CHIMP GLOATS

[Tempest]

3. It's already available

A small Connecticut-based company Herobuilders, has produced a mail-order doll of late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's final minutes at the gallows.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Business&loid=8.0.373521892&par=

[Say_What]

4. Sick f*cks. It really doesn't get much more twisted than that. n/t

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Tempest]

5. Welcome to America

Home of the morally bankrupt.

[Say_What]

7. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does. n/t

Peace!!

[geomon666]

9. Christmas '07

But will come with the kung fu grip?

[OnionPatch]

6. This is just sick

WTF is wrong with people??!!!!

Good God, how can I be a member of this human race?

[David__77]

8. Why is it sick?

They critically supported Saddam Hussein, and they are commemorating him with a statue. I don't like him, but he certainly died with a modicum of dignity and showed no fear in the face of his executioners.

[Harper_is_Bush]

10. I agree. He's a martyr now, and there will likely be more statues of him

Hitler wasn't a martyr, Saddam is a martyr.

[Tempest]

14. Disregard

[OnionPatch]

16. I guess I misunderstood

I thought they were erecting the statue to celebrate the execution.

[kskiska]

11. Haven't we been told that Libya is now our friend

- a model Muslim nation whose dictator saw the error of his ways and knuckled under to *?

[ckramer]

12. Saddam will be remembered as a tough guy standing up to the imperialistic America

That alone makes the Middle East countries proud.

[rcdean]

13. So Gadaffy is still crazy after all these years.

Muhamar, you are such a Bush suckup!