Posted on 12/30/2006 12:49:22 PM PST by indcons
BAGHDAD, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The body of Saddam Hussein was taken to his home town of Tikrit after his execution on Saturday and tribal elders may bury him in his nearby native village of Awja overnight, a senior local cleric said.
A defence lawyer and a senior Iraqi government official confirmed the plan for the ousted president to be buried in his home region, a bastion of the Sunni Arab insurgency against the U.S. occupation and the Shi'ite-led government.
Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were also buried in a family shrine at Awja after U.S. troops killed them in mid-2003. Saddam himself was captured nearby at the end of that year.
Defence lawyer Bushra al-Khalil said Saddam's body was flown in a U.S. military aircraft to Tikrit. A senior government source told Reuters the transfer had been made by road. A U.S. military spokesman declined comment.
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That's what I thought, too.
Tikrit the new Sunni holy site.
Let'em gather there. Then bomb the place. (Wishful thinking...)
A mistake. An unmarked cesspool or composting heap would do much better.
Iraqi people: Negotiations closed.
Same here.
I was thinking that Saddam would be cremated and his ashes dumped in the desert somewhere.
There's now a shrine for every Baathist and Saddam-worshipper to go to.
The Russians had the right idea. They hid Hitler's body for decades because they didn't want it to be a shrine for every Nazi lover and Hitler-worshipper.
I'd like to see the body before I celebrate.
The article said -- "A defence lawyer and a senior Iraqi government official confirmed the plan for the ousted president to be buried in his home region, a bastion of the Sunni Arab insurgency against the U.S. occupation and the Shi'ite-led government."
That's a bad move. They should have kept the body away from that area (the center of the terrorist insurgency). It will simply add fuel to all this stuff. It will serve no good.
A better use of the body would have been to give it to a circus, touring the U.S. and have people pay $5 a ticket to see him.
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Screw that, dismember his body and dump it in the Gulf or one of the rivers (Tigris or Euphrates, their call).
Whoopee!
FNC is saying Saddam requested burial in RAMADI, not Tikrit. And that is what is planned. Deliberately as a center of the Sunni rebellion. How can this be? Unless we want to see who goes there and use it for intel purposes?
They should have done what the Allies did in Germany when they hung the 13 memembers of Hitler's gov't .... cremate them and drop the ashes into the local river ... no shrine, no place for fanatics to gather .....
This is a mistake in an effort to accommodate Sunni sensibliities. Saddam's grave will be a symbol and rallying point.
Did you hear that it would be RAMADI, not Tikrit, at Saddam's request? I just about fainted from shock. Not really, but if true, this is insanity. (Unless we want to see "who goes there" and then zap them...)
There could also be trouble from those who may wish to desecrate the grave, like burying a big IED there.
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