[AGL] Saddam

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    I was a little shocked that guards from Muqtada al-Sadr's group was chosen
to carry out his execution. Iraq's a tough place.  I think we understand very
little about their attitudes towards life and death.  

  "As the noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners
yelled, "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said.

Hussein mockingly uttered one last phrase before he died: "Muqtada al-Sadr,"
according to Haddad.

An executioner read from the Quran and then carried out the hanging. Hussein
died "very, very quickly" just after 6 a.m., al-Rubaie said.".

  On a different note, does anyone know where "repose at the door" phrase comes
from?  At certain points in the funeral and lying in state of President Ford the
term is used.  My husband has told me that it is probably a gentile coverup for
lying dead or some new age funeral director's phraselogy.  I thought maybe it
Roman but I was made fun of there also with... "lying asleep at the porta"  

Carolyn