[AGL] Saddam

[michele mason]

Carolyn, it sounds biblical to me. If I can locate it, I'll let you 
know. Michele

On Dec 30, 2006, at 2:57 PM, globe at zipcon.net wrote:


>     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

>

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