From a high-ranking president, to a prisoner of the order, to a death row prisoner, as the king of a country that was once Iraq, as the hegemon of the Middle East, Saddam Hussein may not have thought that he would end up with such a tragic death as gallows. So, how did he spend the last 6 hours of his life?
On 5 November 2006, the court sentenced Saddam Hussein to death by hanging. Although he still chanted, "No one is qualified to judge me," "I will die with pride in my country and the Arab nation, and I will die in honor and fearlessness, while the American occupiers will retreat from Iraq in disgrace," this does not change the fact that he has gone and the hearts of the people have been lost.
Soon, Saddam Put on an orange prison uniform and went to jail, ready to welcome his death. December 29 of that year was saddam's last day of life. He had no fear of the imminent capital punishment. He refused to eat the "Last Supper" prepared for him by the Americans, but instead lay down early and prepared to spend the long sleepless night in silence.
For the execution ceremony at six o'clock the next morning, Saddam Hussein wanted to cultivate his spirit and show his best in front of the world as much as possible, but how could the soldiers guarding him let it go.
Just after twelve o'clock, the soldier woke him up with his foot. Jokingly, he taunted Saddam: "After tomorrow, you can sleep for a long time, why bother to sleep again?" Saddam Hussein was furious, but he ignored it. Then came another soldier named Ali, who waved a rope in front of Saddam Hussein and triumphantly told him, "This thing is waiting for you." ”
Immediately afterward, more and more soldiers poured into Saddam's room, dancing wildly in front of him, and humiliating Saddam Hussein to the extreme. The reason why they "deprived" Saddam Hussein of his last human rights is that the victors are showing their pride.
Before the Iraq War began, Saddam Hussein vowed to fight the U.S. military. But before the war could begin, it came to an end.
Saddam Hussein, who was once high-spirited, is now just an old man with gray hair and a downfall. These American soldiers, who fought bloodily with Saddam's army on the battlefield, naturally wanted to make a good joke when they saw their former invincible opponents become like this.
When they got tired of jumping, they turned and went out, and after thirty minutes, another group of people humiliated Saddam Hussein. If nothing else, simply not wanting Saddam to sleep. The soldiers smoked cigarettes and used "all their life's learning" to taunt Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, acted unfazed, only faintly begging them to give him a cigarette.
Generally speaking, people will die, and such a request will not be rejected. But who let Saddam Hussein meet the arrogant American soldiers, who instead of giving Saddam Hussein cigarettes to smoke, instead used the topic to play and insulted him fiercely.
Perhaps for a "tough guy" like Saddam Hussein, the physical destruction is not enough to hurt him by half a point, and the psychological suppression is the fatal blow to him. In their own way, the American soldiers gave Saddam Hussein a final blow to his soul.
In the rounds of ridicule of American soldiers, Saddam Hussein spent the hardest five hours. At five o'clock in the morning, the cell prepared a rich breakfast for Saddam, after all, it was his last meal.
Even if there is a great hatred between Americans and Saddam Hussein, the basic work still has to be done. Saddam Haddam had no appetite at all, and did not want to accept handouts from the Americans, so he refused this last meal.
However, he still made a request, that is, he hoped to give himself a cigar. When he was president before, he could be said to have a cigar in his hand, and even equipped with someone who cut and lit cigarettes for him. Now that life is coming to an end, I still want to taste this familiar taste. However, the Americans rejected him for the second time, as they had previously refused to give him cigarettes.
Saddam was then taken to the execution chamber, where he wore no traditional prison uniform, but a black tweed coat. In his coat, Saddam Hussein also carried a copy of the Quran that he had in mind.
Saddam Hussein was a devout Muslim who always believed that God would bring him good fortune and that he could enter heaven after his death with the Quran. As he said before his execution, "I will go to heaven, but my enemies will go to hell." The Iraqi people, you must unite so that you can live a good life. ”
The moment he was bound and carried to the gallows, Saddam Hussein opened his mouth again, hoping to take off the black hood for himself, and he wanted the Iraqi people to remember his last appearance before he died, a request that was not rejected again.
Of course, the insults of the people present against Saddam Never stopped. They put Saddam Hussein on his neck while cursing him with nasty words.
In the face of these officers and men with live ammunition and officials at all levels with a strong aura, Saddam Hussein did not show the slightest timidity, but asked them with a slight sarcasm: "Is this your arrogance to humiliate a person who is about to die?" The implication is that if Saddam Hussein hadn't been tied up here, no one would have dared to say such a thing to him.
In fact, Saddam Hussein's fearlessness is also very understandable, in his opinion, he is full of grievances, if he is not framed, it is impossible to end up in such a situation. And the Americans dare to be so arrogant, only because they have captured themselves through intrigue and trickery, and they can only be so arrogant when they are unarmed.
In his view, both the Americans and the Iraqi regime they have propped up are some fraudsters. He is the lord of Iraq, and no one is qualified to judge and execute himself on Iraqi soil. Therefore, Saddam Hussein will not show cowardice in front of the "jumping beam clown", and he can no longer succumb to his obscenity.
In this environment, the more cowardly it is, the more it will make it worse. Therefore, when he saw the gallows, he would say to the executioner, "Look, this is for men." ”
He left his last words to the camera: "Let's do it! I will not be afraid of any of you. I was a warrior, and from the moment I picked up the gun, I knew I was going to die at any moment. As the saying goes, "Steel has fallen, but the will of steel is still there", and after his death, he wants to pass on this strong character to the land he loves.
The day after Saddam's death, his body was sent to his hometown of Tikrit for burial. I thought that he had experienced such a lot of war before he died, and he would be able to sleep quietly for a long time after death.
Nine years after his death, the terrorist group Islamic State occupied the area. In the battle against iraqi government forces, eyeless guns ruthlessly blew it up.
Saddam Hussein's life was really "success also Ti Crete, defeat also Ti Crete". This is his hometown and the place that has supported the step-by-step administration of Iraq. After the United States launched the Iraq War, Saddam Hussein quickly lost power, a large number of troops turned against him in an instant, and he had no choice but to rely on superb makeup skills and transcendent language skills to escape from Baghdad all the way here.
In Saddam's view, as long as Haosheng hid here, he could safely escape the net laid by the US military. Moreover, the Americans were unpopular, and it would not take long for them to withdraw their troops, and at that time they once again carried the banner and could once again take charge of the world.
He spent his days hiding in a narrow cellar on a farm in the countryside of Tikrit, quietly waiting for news of the American retreat. Still, he underestimated the level of hatred Americans had toward him.
The Americans uniformly made Saddam Hussein and his close characters into a set of playing cards, and the higher the ranking, the reward for all whistleblowers, and those who knew about it were either killed or killed. Under its coercion and inducement, someone finally couldn't help but open his mouth and revealed Saddam's whereabouts to the US military.
Saddam Hussein had a close confidant named Muhammad, nicknamed "Fat Man". Under the coercion of the US military's words and deeds, his psychological defenses were finally broken, indicating that Saddam Hussein was hiding in a farm in the small town of Tikrit Dahl.
The U.S. army assembled a team of 600 people and surrounded Dahl. Soldiers wore night vision goggles, were heavily armed and searched door to door.
When he found a suspicious farm, he found that although the house was empty, the stove still had some residual heat. They found a blanket, which, although unremarkable in appearance, could be placed in a very strange position. So the crowd retreated, and the soldiers in the front row carefully lifted it and found that there was actually a wooden plank, which could be described as a hole in the sky.
Everyone pried open the planks together, only to see an old man with gray hair and a dirty face curled up here. After a series of comparisons, it was finally confirmed that this person was the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who was hunted down by everyone.
On January 10 of the following year, the Americans officially confirmed Saddam Hussein's status as a prisoner of war and began a lengthy trial. They racked their brains to get Saddam Hussein to admit that he harbored weapons of mass destruction and had close ties to terrorist groups such as al-Qaida.
And Saddam Hussein, in his interrogation, used the words", "You Americans can easily find a group of traitors who betrayed Saddam Hussein, but you can't catch a person who can tell you where the weapons of mass destruction are?" Whether it was the planners and executors of 9/11, was there an Iraqi among them? Iraq has never been a terrorist State and has no connection with them. Bin Laden is a Saudi, but what have you done to Saudi Arabia and why are you pointing the finger at Iraq?"
Such a sentence made everyone dumbfounded. Although Saddam Hussein denied the crimes woven by the Americans, the defeat of the king still did not change the outcome of his being labeled a "crime against humanity" and sentenced to hanging.