{"id":110,"date":"2006-12-29T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T21:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/celebrity\/2006\/12\/29\/saddams-hanging-to-be-televised\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T21:32:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T01:32:41","slug":"saddams-hanging-to-be-televised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/celebrity\/2006\/12\/29\/saddams-hanging-to-be-televised\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddams Hanging to be Televised"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image114\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/celebrity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/saddam.jpg\" alt=\"saddam.jpg\" \/> The date and timing of Saddams hanging hasn&#8217;t been set yet, but as of late Thursday it was said that when he&#8217;s turned over by the American Military to the Iraqi Government he&#8217;ll be hanged within 36 hours, and hanged before the start of the Muslim holiday on Sunday.<br \/>\n<div class=\"0ef8bfa44cafabceb297ac3097736deb\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: right; margin:0px 0 0px 0px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* Celebrity_inpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1568606040\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Saddam was convicted in the deaths of 148 people in 1982 earlier this year. Several sources have said that Saddam&#8217;s execution would be videotaped by the Iraqi government, though it isn&#8217;t clear if this will be released to the public or broadcast live over the networks. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will video everything,&#8221; Iraqi National Security adviser Mouffak al Rubaie told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi government released video last Tuesday of the hanging of 13 convicts, so it&#8217;s presumed that the hanging of Saddam will eventually be aired. ABC and CBS said they wouldn&#8217;t air the full execution if the video became available.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very aware that we&#8217;re coming into people&#8217;s living rooms and that there could be children watching,&#8221; CBS News senior vp Linda Mason said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have very, very strict guidelines with how to deal with that,&#8221; said Bob Murphy, senior vp at ABC News. &#8220;If there were pictures made available of the execution, they would have to be viewed by senior management before we would put them on the air, and we would make a judgment of taste and propriety of what we would show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CNN and Fox News were still in discussion of what they would do if footage became available.  The newly launched Al-Jazeera International network hasn&#8217;t stated if it will air the videotapes yet either.  Al-Jazeera&#8217;s pan-Arab channel has never shown an execution.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>What&#8217;s your take on this?  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