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Topic started on 30-12-2006 @ 11:56 AM by spines
For quite some time now a debate has constantly ran the gamut of discussion involving Saddam: Will executing him do little more then make him a martyr?

I have always taken the side that has stated that Saddams death would cause him to be 'martyred' in the eyes of his supporters (and more specifically certain Sunni groups/individuals who violantly oppose the Shiites). The idea being that his death would become one more reason to fuel the fire of hate between these two groups.

Well, now it seems that we have our answer. Our answer is a profound yes.


‘The death of a holy warrior’
But people in the Sunni-dominated city of Tikrit, once a power base of Saddam, lamented his death.

“The president, the leader Saddam Hussein is a martyr and God will put him along with other martyrs. Do not be sad nor complain because he has died the death of a holy warrior,” said Sheik Yahya al-Attawi, a cleric at Saddam Big Mosque.

Police blocked the entrances to Tikrit and said nobody was allowed to leave or enter the city for four days. Despite the security precaution, gunmen took into the street of Tikrit in spite of the curfew carrying pictures of Saddam and shooting into the air and calling for vengeance on Saddam’s execution.

Security forces also set up roadblocks at the entrance to another Sunni stronghold, Samarra, and a curfew was imposed after about 500 people took to the streets protesting the execution of Saddam.

A couple hundred people also protested the execution just outside the Anbar capital of Ramadi, many carrying pictures of Saddam.

More than 2,000 people, many carrying weapons, demonstrated in Adwar, a village south of Tikrit where Saddam was captured by U.S. troops hiding in an underground bunker. It is also the hometown of Saddam’s former No. 2, Izzat Ibrahim, who is still at large.


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On a similar note I have a bit of speculative thinking: Violant attacks and bombings have, sadly, become the 'every day' in Iraq.

With that said, a bombing taking place shortly after Saddams death can not be automatically considered 'retaliation'.


BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb planted on a minibus killed 31 people in a fish market in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad on Saturday, while police imposed curfews in some Sunni areas to prevent any outbreak of violence after Saddam Hussein’s execution.


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And, because it occured in a prodominently Shiite area on the eve of an important religious holiday, it could be seen as an opurtunity killing; hundreds of people would be celebrating in the square and therefor could be seen as an 'easy target' for a high casualty attack.

I am not saying it is either option -retaliation or oppurtunity killing. I am, however, leaning towards the latter of the two.
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