Saddam Family Marks 40 Days of Mourning

[Joanne98]

Saddam Family Marks 40 Days of Mourning
By AHMED AL-HAJ
Associated Press Writer

February 7, 2007, 2:48 PM EST

SAN'A, Yemen -- With tears and sobs, former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's elder daughter joined hundreds of Baathists in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday to mark the passage of 40 days of mourning his death.

Raghad Hussein, accompanied by her son and daughter and several of Saddam's defense lawyers, was greeted with chants of "Revenge for Saddam!" and "Eternity to Saddam!" on arrival at the San'a airport.

A convoy of cars carrying pictures of Saddam then drove them to a palace in downtown San'a for a ceremony hosted by the chief of the state security forces, Yahia Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, who is also a cousin of the Yemeni president.

Addressing the gathering, Raghad praised the insurgents in Iraq, saying that "as long as the resistance and the mujahedeen are fulfilling their duties in Iraq, the Iraqi people, without any doubt, will achieve victory."

"Saddam Hussein is the real hero and the pan-Arab leader. I am proud of him and proud of his great struggle and sacrifices," she said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-yemen-saddam,0,3054233.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

Wouldn't it be funny if Saddam gets turned into a martyr?

[hlthe2b]

1. In some areas of Iraq, he already has been...

And there was a report that Gadhafi (Libya) was erecting a monument of Saddam on the gallows to be placed next to that of a Libyan martyr who had been hanged by the British during their fight for independence....

The law of (ignorant) unintended consequences strikes again.

[Joanne98]

2. Oh really.

[hlthe2b]

3. Unfortunately, true...

Just more from the "gang that couldn't shoot straight."

You would think that given Saddam's years of horror, we could at least effect his removal and trial in a way that wouldn't make him a sympathetic figure to ANYONE. :shrug:

[rpannier]

4. I have as much sympathy for his family

as I do for pinochet's family -- NONE

Sadaam was a murderous, sociopathic, bastard.
His family profited from his behavior.
They don't seem to feel the need to ever apologise for what he did.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[quido]

5. AMEN NT

[Psephos]

6. I *still* mourn for Stalin's family, along with Saddam's

Because there are so few other families in the world deserving deep sympathy.

:sarcasm: