Saddam to be Executed
Former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein will be executed..After being convicted on November 5 for which he went to trial for his orders to execute 148 Shia Muslims after an aparent Assasination attempt in 1982. the death sentence which was upheld earlier this week by the Iraqi High court is expected to happen in the next coming weeks as there is a deadline which says the sentence must be carried out 30 days from the time of the last appeal.Many in the International community see this as bad step in the growth of the Iraqi government for it to show that they would not gain revenge in the same way Saddam ruled Iraqi instead they wish to see Saddam be inprisoned for life.Now all in the way of the coming execution is the ratification by the Presidency committe and by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani who said he would let his counterparts make the decision as he is a firm opponent to the death penalty..Saddam who still is facing convictions on his part of the 1988 attack on the Iraqi Kurds were some 180,000 people were executed.
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