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Dead by Dawn? (Frequent updates, occasional bumps)
I'm not going to give you an excuse not to read the whole thing by excerpting it. Read it.
*** End of a Dictator
Confederate Yankee
According to an anonymous source, the former President of Iraq will be executed by hanging at 12:00 AM midnight on Saturday/ 4:00 PM EST Friday afternoon at an undisclosed location. ...
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Overslept, gonna do a quick link roundup then try to keep this post as up to date as I can till I can start a new one titled "Satan's Bitch!"
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Saddam to hang today? Update: Still in U.S. custody?
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Kim Priestap's tracking the news as it comes in here.
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Curt's tracking the situation here.
James Joyner's on it here.
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CNN: Reports conflict on execution timing
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Michelle's all over the situation.
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Dan Riehl:
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Tha Anchoress has thoughts on excutions here, Don Surber responds here.
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Captain Ed: Three Years Later, A 'Rush'
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Report: Saddam to be executed by 10 p.m. ET
*** Saddam goes court-shopping
Michelle Malkin
In the U.S.: Lawyers for Saddam Hussein on Friday made a last-minute appeal to an American court to avert execution in Iraq, asking a judge to block his transfer from U.S. custody to the hands of Iraqi officials.
Hussein's lawyers filed documents Friday afternoon asking for an emergency restraining order aimed at stopping the U.S. government from relinquishing custody of the condemned former Iraqi leader to Iraqi officials, a spokeswoman for a federal court in Washington D.C. said. ...
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CQ: The Execution Is A Go For Tonight ... Perhaps
Dafydd ab Hugh: Clinton Judge Has Opportunity to Shine!
*** Official: Saddam to be executed tonight
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The official witnesses to Saddam Hussein's impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime's atrocities.
With U.S. forces on high alert for a surge in violence, the Iraqi government readied all the necessary documents, including a "red card" — an execution order introduced during Saddam's dictatorship. As the hour of his death approached, Saddam received two of his half brothers in his cell on Thursday and was said to have given them his personal belongings and a copy of his will.
Najeeb al-Nueimi, a member of Saddam's legal team in Doha, Qatar, said he too requested a final meeting with the deposed Iraqi leader. "His daughter in Amman was crying, she said 'Take me with you,'" al-Nueimi said late Friday. But he said their request was rejected.
An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. Also to be hanged at that time were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, the adviser said. ...
*** CNN: Hussein execution imminent, sources say
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Saddam Hussein will be hanged before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, before 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET), according to Appeals Judge Munir Haddad.
The paperwork is in order for Hussein's execution, and the judge echoed a widespread belief that the hanging could be imminent.
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Within the hour?
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Gateway Pundit has a great "Why it's the right thing to do" post here.
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Call it off! Yeah, right.
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Brendan Loy: The death of a monster
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U.S. Judge Refuses to Block Saddam Hussein's Execution
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Gateway Pundit quotes Al Arabia as saying Saddam has reached the execution site.
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