On the anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s execution, what is the story of his attempts to smuggle him, and what is Gaddafi's relationship with that?

The horror of the Iraqis ’surprise at the beginning of the third millennium was not limited to seeing the American tank in the center of the capital, Baghdad, in the US-led invasion of their country in 2003, through which the regime of the late President Saddam Hussein was overthrown, but this beginning quickly expanded the ceiling of surprises by seeing Saddam himself on the execution stage with a rope wrapped The gallows around his neck on the morning of December 30, 2006, which coincided with the first day of Eid al-Adha at the time.

Fourteen years have passed since this event, but it still carries somewhat different interpretations and interpretations, with a number of secrets and secrets still accompanying him without a clear answer to them, the most prominent of which revolves around the intention of external parties to smuggle Saddam, in addition to the reasons for choosing this specific timing to implement the ruling .

Haddad confirmed that Saddam's execution was purely judicial and denied the assumption of revenge against him on a sectarian background (Al-Jazeera)

Political ambition

Saddam was accused of committing several crimes that were said to be against humanity over a quarter of a century of his rule of Iraq (1979-2003), until he was overthrown by the American invasion of the country, but all this does not mean that there are no agendas and intentions behind his execution, the most important of which is the political ambition and historical honor that he coveted. By the former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki by making the event of Saddam’s execution during his reign, according to Judge Munir Haddad, Vice President of the Supreme Criminal Court, Vice President of the Court of Cassation, and supervisor of the execution.

Haddad’s memory still retains the details of the last scenes of Saddam’s life prior to his execution, and he was the one who directly supervised the execution of the sentence after agreeing with al-Maliki to choose this specific day, denying categorically and angrily - in his response to a question by Al-Jazeera Net- that foreign agendas were behind the first choice. The days of the blessed Eid al-Adha for the execution of the sentence in retaliation against him against a sectarian background, adding, "Saddam was neither a Sunni nor a Shiite, but a dictator who killed more Sunnis than Shiites," stressing that the execution file was purely judicial.

What did Gaddafi predict?

What can be considered the most surprising and exciting angle in Saddam Hussein’s execution - as Haddad asserts - is the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi’s allocation of $ 5 billion to smuggle him out of prison, but his attempts and plans were unsuccessful, and the Libyan opposition confirmed this after his overthrow, and so was Gaddafi’s prediction in His speech before one of the Arab summits, that the fate of the Arab leaders be similar to that of Saddam.

Although the Iraqi judiciary accused Saddam of carrying out heinous crimes against humanity, especially the massacres he committed against the Kurds and Shiites, it was the attempt to assassinate him in 1982 in the Dujail district that brought him to the gallows.

The Dujail massacre took place in the early eighties of the last century in a town with this name north of Baghdad, after an attack on the motorcade of the late president.

In the massacre, 143 residents of the town were killed, and many properties were destroyed.

Al-Alawi considered that the timing of Saddam’s execution was a clever American trick to distort religious occasions for Muslims (Al-Jazeera)

An American trap

Saddam Hussein’s survival behind the scenes was not without the realization of conflicting interests of parties who wanted to benefit from him and his information related to important, sensitive and prominent events, unlike other parties who rushed to execute the execution for fear of the possibility of the Baath Party returning again, or the efforts of certain forces to use its presence to provoke a lot of Cases and submitting Iraq to bargaining is indispensable, and this is what prompted al-Maliki to settle the matter and carry out the death penalty.

Getting Saddam Hussein to the death row was not easy unless several foreign countries and internal parties participated in this matter, according to what the professor of political history at Al-Mustansiriya University, Dr. Saleh Al-Alawi, said, attributing the cause to internal and external stressful circumstances.

In response to a question by Al-Jazeera Net about whether America has made the Iraqi political class into its trap by determining this date for the execution of the death sentence or not, Al-Alawi confirms America’s intervention in this matter and has even worked to bring it closer, in a step he interprets as a clever trick to make Muslims a cover, an explanation and distort it. On their occasions, recalling an incident in Islamic history similar to what happened with Saddam, when one of the Abbasid caliphs executed the death sentence against an opposition group that had turned against him, and his son was among them, refusing to comply with his wife's appeal to release their two sons, and they were executed on one of the Eid al-Adha holidays.

Al-Alawi points to one of America's tricks in which it deluded the political class by pressuring it to get Saddam Hussein out of prison on the surface. However, its intention in the interior was to push them to urgently carry out the execution, and it succeeded in that, and it plunged all politicians into this trap.

Al-Hayani saw that Iraqi politicians would not have dared to execute Saddam had it not been for the presence of an American green light for that (Al Jazeera)

Provocation and green light

In turn, the professor of political science, Dr. Muhammad al-Hayani, agrees with Al-Alawi’s opinion of America’s success in luring Iraqi politicians into its trap by executing Saddam Hussein in this way, reducing the ability of the political class that came after 2003 to execute him unless it received a green light from America.

Al-Hayani accused the political class of provoking the Iraqi people by executing the death sentence on the morning of the blessed Eid al-Adha, ruling out the idea of ​​Saddam smuggling, extracting him in one way or another, or not executing him, and he is accused of many criminal files and was sentenced to death as a result.

And he was surprised that the execution ceremonies were devoid of Islamic foundations and the human and moral dimensions, in addition to Arab principles, especially since Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq and ruled for about 25 years.