Posted on 12/30/2006 12:49:22 PM PST by indcons
They may wind up building a mosque over the grave and making it a shrine.....
"Uday was buried in a cemetery near Tikrit alongside Qusay and the latter's son"
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OK thanks.
"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."
Were in the hell is Hitler's body anyway?
the muzzies should run junkets to piss on his grave!!!
LOL...wouldn't you know that guy would show up!
None of the Hussein animals ever........EVER.............offered this courtesy to their poor victims.
They should have been cremated, their ashes flushed down the nearest toilet after being pi**ed on by the nearest Iraqi Army (preferrably Kurdish) soldier.
Yes, I'm serious.
Yeah, his neck definitely looks snapped there.
"...Were in the hell is Hitler's body anyway?..."
Read the last couple of pages of "The Berkut". };-)
A frame grab from Biladi shows former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's body after his execution in Baghdad December 30, 2006. REUTERS/Biladi TV
United Press International
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is to be buried near his sons in his birthplace of Tikrit, a member of his tribe said Saturday.
Hussein was hanged early Saturday morning in Baghdad. The son of a tribal leader told CNN that the U.S. military turned his body over a few hours later.
The funeral is to be Sunday morning in the cemetery where his sons, Uday and Qusay, are buried, the report said. They were killed by U.S. forces in 2003, not long before Saddam's capture.
There had been some speculation that Saddam would be buried in the Green Zone to keep his grave from becoming a place of pilgrimage for supporters. Muslim practices do not allow cremation and require burial to take place soon after death.
Saddam was allowed a visit with two of his half-brothers on Thursday. Another half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim, who headed the secret police, is expected to be hanged in a few days, and Saddam's wife and daughter face arrest if they return to Iraq.
DUBAI, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's family said on Saturday it had decided to bury the executed former Iraqi leader in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi instead of his native village of Awja, close to where he was born.
"After the family received the will of the martyred president from lawyers who last met him where he asked to be buried either in Awja or Ramadi...it was decided to bury him in the city of Ramadi," a family statement received by Reuters said.
Burying Saddam in Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, instead of Awja where his two sons Uday and Qusay were buried after U.S. troops killed them in 2003, was due to "private family reasons and the prevailing security situation" in Iraq, the statement added.
Saddam's body in home town for burial
31st December 2006, 8:32 WST
The body of Saddam Hussein was taken to his home town of Tikrit after his execution on Saturday and his family said the executed former Iraqi leader would be buried in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi.
"After the family received the will of the martyred president from lawyers who last met him where he asked to be buried either in Awja or Ramadi ... it was decided to bury him in the city of Ramadi," a family statement received by Reuters said.
The statement did not say when he would be buried. It is Muslim practice to bury the dead within the day.
Burying Saddam in Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, instead of Awja close to where he was born, was due to "private family reasons and the prevailing security situation" in Iraq, the statement added.
Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay, were buried in the 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.
Yahya al-Atawi, a senior Sunni Muslim cleric in Tikrit, told Reuters by telephone from the city 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad that the head of Saddam's Albu Nasir tribe, Ali al-Nida, had received the body.
Saddam's daughter, Raghd, in exile in Jordan, had earlier asked for her father's body to be flown to Yemen for a temporary burial there until it can be transferred back to Iraq for a proper family ceremony.
An adviser to Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had earlier said the government wanted Saddam, 69, to be buried in a secret location in Iraq to prevent the site becoming a place of pilgrimage for rebels.
U.S. troops are on alert for trouble from insurgents among Saddam's Sunni minority.
REUTERS
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=344512
They are going to BURY it? It should have been burned with the ashe? scattered.
Why, we want another SHRINE to the freak?
"Muslim practices do not allow cremation and require burial to take place soon after death."
Christian practices did not allow cremation and scattering ashes after WWII, when we did this to executed Nazis. That did not stop us then and should not have stopped us now.
As Saddam was nominally Muslim, so several of the Nazis were nominally Christian.
Hmmmm?
I agree, they should have just buried him in an unmarked grave.
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