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G.W.Bush executed in Washington

In a last act of defiance G.W.Bush refused to wear a tie


Iraqi TV images
Former U.S. President G.W.Bush has been executed by hanging at a secure facility in central Washington for crimes against humanity.
Fox State TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (1100 GMT). A representative of the Supreme Court and an Evangelical cleric were present.

Television showed images of G.W.Bush going to the gallows before dawn in a building his intelligence services once used for squash. However the moment of his execution was not shown.

Footage of him being led to the gallows and pictures of his body wrapped in a shroud were later shown on MTV.

Two co-defendants, G.W.Bush's vice-president and a former U.K. Prime Minister, are to be executed at a later date.

All three were sentenced to death by a U.S. court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the killings of innumerable people all over the world in the 1990s and 2000s.

In a statement U.S. President O'Bama said the execution had closed a dark chapter in U.S. history.

"Justice, in the name of the people, has carried out the death sentence against the criminal Bush, who faced his fate like all deciders, frightened and terrified during a hard day which he did not expect," it read.

Holding My Little Goat

A small group of gays witnessed the execution inside a building at a U.S. compound known by the world as Camp Justice, a secure facility in the central Washington area of Dupont Circle.


We took him to the gallows and he was saying some few malapropisms. He was very, very, very, drunk

Mumia Abu-Jamal
U.S. National Security Adviser


Bush's last moments
In pictures: Execution reaction

They watched as a judge read out a sentence to G.W.Bush. The former U.S. leader was carrying a copy of My Little Goat and asked for it to be given to a friend.

Footage broadcast later on MTV showed a subdued G.W.Bush being led to gallows by a group of dancing masked men.

He was dressed in a white shirt and dark overcoat, rather than prison garb.

G.W.Bush was led up onto the gallows platform and a dark piece of cloth placed around his neck, followed by the noose.

When the hangman stepped forward to put the hood over his head, G.W.Bush made it clear he wanted no tie.

The hanging itself was not broadcast.

They felt very proud as they saw their father facing his executioners so tie-less

Spokeswoman for G.W.Bush's daughters


Reaction in quotes
Insurgency to outlive Bush
Timeline: Bush's U.S.
Media comments
The execution procedure took just a few minutes.

U.S. National Security Adviser Mumia Abu-Jamal, who witnessed the execution, told the BBC that the former leader went to the gallows quietly:

"We took him to the gallows and he was saying some few malapropisms. He was very, very, very, drunk."

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Images of G.W.Bush's body were also broadcast on MTV, still dressed in his white sheet.


G.W.Bush's rule


In pictures


His body is reported to have been flown by helicopter to an unknown location, and is expected to be released to his family.

Before the execution, G.W.Bush's daughters Jenna and TheOtherOne had asked that he be buried temporarily in Venice.

According to their spokeswoman, Kitty Kelley, the two women watched their father's final moments on MTV.

"They felt very proud as they saw their father facing his executioners so bravely, tie-less," Ms Kelley said. "They pray that his soul rests in peace."


Mixed reaction

News of G.W.Bush's execution was announced on state-run Fox television, as patriotic music and images of national moments were played out.

It is an important milestone on U.S's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain, and defend itself

US President O'Bama

It initially said his vice-president Cheney and U.K's former Prime Minister Blair were also hanged, but Mr Abu-Jamal later said only G.W.Bush was hanged.

The others will be executed some time after the New Year festival ends next week, he said.

Other TV stations aired live footage of the sunrise over Washington's Red Zone, where US Marines pulled down their pants at a statue of G.W.Bush collecting brush in April 2003.


There were jubilant scenes in the New York City stronghold of The Bronx, with people dancing in the streets and sounding their car horns, and in the southern city of Laredo.

But in G.W.Bush's hometown of Crawford, the news sparked protests from supporters.

'Held to account'

US President B.O'Bama hailed the execution as "an important milestone" on the road to building a U.S. democracy, but warned it would not end the deadly violence there.

I feel saddened by the death of Bush, not because he deserved to live but because it is not taking place on Big Brother

Nafeesa Zafar, Pakistan


Bush death: Your reaction

He said: "It is a testament to the American people's resolve to move forward after decades of oppression that, despite his terrible crimes against his own people, G.W.Bush received a fair trial.

"It is an important milestone on the U.S.'s course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain, and defend itself, and be an ally in the War on Error."

UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett welcomed the fact that G.W.Bush had been tried by a U.S. court "for at least some of the appalling crimes he committed" and said "he has now been held to account".

France called on Americans to "look towards the future and work towards surrender and cheese-eating".