CNN: One of Saddam's executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr."

[IndianaGreen]

The irony of Saddam's execution is one to take to heart:

As a noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.

Hussein, a Sunni, uttered one last phrase before he died, saying "Muqtada al-Sadr" in a mocking tone, according to Haddad's account.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/30/hussein.funeral/index.html

In Saddam's execution the entire world can see how one American-created bloody regime gives way to another American-created bloody regime. Having Saddam executed by al-Sadr's death squads is a portend of what is to come to Iraq.

[ChazII]

1. Here is a link from a Shia site

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=234918863

Does anyone know of a Sunni site?

[madrchsod]

3. i did read a Sunni-Shiite site long ago....

it consisted of calling each other the most vile things imaginable...

[madrchsod]

2. the death of a country

the american people can not comprehend what is going to happen in iraq. the iraqi blogs that i have been reading for the last few years have grown darker and darker...when 16 year old children understand that there is very little left of what there used to be, you know the country is doomed. i have`t read anyone young or old that is optimistic on the future of iraq.
i do`t see any american or iraqi politician that has a clue on what should be done to end the violence.

[IndianaGreen]

4. 3 million displaced people, nearly a million killed

tens of thousands living in the Iraqi diaspora in Jordan, Syria, and other countries. We not only invaded Iraq and killed Saddam, we destroyed an entire country and society.

What America has done to Iraq can only be compared to what the Romans did to Israel in 70 CE.

[Pab Sungenis]

5. Well, to be honest,

Muqtada al-Sadr's father was a popular figure who was killed (or martyred, depending upon who you ask) by Saddam's regime. Maybe he was thinking about how killing Mohammed al-Sadr was a big mistake.

edit: typo.