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The next question is or should I say questions...

1. Where are thosw WMD?
2. What was your part in Sept 11th?
3. Who else is planning US destruction?
4. Do you know where Osama is?

Will it be likely that he will speak freely or will they have to use some painful means to get answers?

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World Leaders Hail Arrest
World leaders hail capture of Saddam
France, Germany among first to hail ex-leader's arrest
"Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture bring about unity, reconciliation and peace," Prime Minister Tony Blair said. "Saddam is gone from power. He won't be coming back, that the Iraqi people now know and it is they who will decide his fate."


Expecting resistance
In Yemen, Mohammed Abdel Qader Mohammadi, 50, said he was surprised Saddam didn't fight his capture. "I expected him to resist or commit suicide before falling into American hands. He disappointed a lot of us, he's a coward."


In downtown Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Ibrahim al-Khodir, 37, said Saddam should be put to death. "This should have happened a long time ago," al-Khodir said. "Such a ruthless dictator and criminal should get the death penalty and he should be executed in front of the Iraqi people."


"The time has come for him to pay for his crimes," said Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, an outspoken supporter of the war to oust Saddam, despite widespread opposition at home. "He is responsible for the killing of millions of people over the last 30 years. He is a threat to his people and to the entire world," Aznar said.


"I have been waiting for this for the last 35 years," said Zangana, director of Kurdish Human Rights Watch in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon. Saddam instituted a policy of genocide against the Kurds and Zangana said oppression in his oil-rich hometown of Kirkuk was severe. "Nobody is going to be happy today like the Kurds," Zangana said. "He killed a lot of us."

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Do you think there will be attempts to "rescue" Saddam? There are still elements of support out there for him.

I don't think it's over yet. I think things will get bloody before they get done.

Roz

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I have heard stories that many were wanting to give him a trial and then hang him afterwards. That they also gave him a DNA test to ensure it was really him and not one of his body doubles. I will have to verify that story though. But I am not sure if they would try to rescue him or not. In a way, I am glad to hear that they finally caught up with him. But according to the news they said Saddam was disoriented when they caught him. Which leads me to wonder if Saddam had been in his right mind, would he have gone so quietly into custody? Now I keep hearing the big question about whether or not Saddam will finally tell his secrets about the WMD and things along that line now that he is in custody. I guess only time will tell whether or not he tells anything or whether he gets rescued.

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I agree with you Farseer, even though they caught him, there are lots of supporters of him out there, so we still need to be very careful, this may not be the end like some people may think.

Watching him on TV I saw him 'disoriented' too and too 'quiet' but again, we don't know the guy, he looks pretty sick also so I don't think he could 'fight' in any way the US troops.

This is the idea that scares me the most....what method they may use to make him speak!.

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I only have one thing to say that would applaud the capture. Now that Sadaam has been caught the US can stop their attacks without stepping down and looking like wussies. However, knowing how Bush acts I can assume this isn't the end and rather the beginning and that makes me sad.

Honestly though, I don't think the US ever should have been in Iraq to begin with. All they were doing was killing the innocent. If someone had to have been killed it should have been Sadaam and only him. However, they went in there and killed women and children. That is wrong and takes away all of their right to try to be helping something for humanity. You cannot kill humans and expect peace to be a result. It is not possible. Violence breeds more violence. And besides, their whole reason of going in there was because of the supposed weapons of mass destruction. They have never been found. And I heard that the scientists over there were scamming Sadaam and they were getting all this money to make weapons, but they didn't, they just pocketed the money. they had no reason. When they couldn't find anything that did not call for an attack. That called for a step down.

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I thought it ironic that when the soldiers captured him and Saddam said he wanted to negotiate that the soldiers responded, "Pres. Bush sends his regards" Why am I laughing? The man is in a 'rat hole' and looks like a bumb on a drinking binge... what regards?

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They were just being sarcastic :<!--emo&:)--><!--endemo--> I never understood how people in situations like that can use sarcasm....anyhow, they said he denied having any weapons of mass destruction and that he had enough time to commit suicide if he wanted too but he didn't....other thing, did you all see the conditions how he was living? it was really bad, I don't understand why he decided to stay, why he didn't run away when the US forced entered Iraq, he had the money and the contacts to do that but he decided to remain...it doesn't make sense to me.
Also they say that the trial will start within a few weeks and he will be judge under the law of Iraq but since the US troops entered Iraq they suspended the death penalty and they said that they do not think in establishing it again until the US troops move from Iraq (and it will not be anytime soon) so can we assume that Saddam will not be condemn to the death penalty then?

Edited: LDS_forever on 15th Dec, 2003 - 5:36pm

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I heard just the opposite this morning on the news. I heard that if he is tried in Iraq, he will definately face the death penalty.